A writer in early 1930, boosting the beauty business, started off a magazine article with the sentence: “The average American woman has sixteen square feet of skin.

There is no reason for beauty. It just is.

I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way–in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel–really is lovely.

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me...

Since he’d stepped out of medical school, all he’d ever done was fulfil the same three basic templates, again and again and again. The possibility of infinite variation had led only to convergence.

Beauty is wishing for loneliness without any regret and complains.

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood.

Who was this girl alone so late at nightin search of a faded cassette illusion to disembowel the clocks of time’s intrusion? Those eyes belonged to the most beautiful maniac I’ve ever met. Our love...

A woman’s beauty should not imitate art.

Be lead by the present spirit of ideas in your wildest dreams. Their mysterious pull on your life is a singular) summons, sent with a divine invitation. Trust + obey this guidance. In accepting your...

Fashion Fact: Most people make the assumption that I wear trendy shades the majority of the time (often indoors) to protect my eyes from the elements. But in fact it’s the reverse. I’m protecting the...

Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.

I fought angrily against seeing particular types of poetic organization because it seemed awful to see my own life and these actual events in that way. But when you put forth an intention into the...

The tea-masters held that real appreciation of art is only possible to those who make of it a living influence. Thus they sought to regulate their daily life by the high standard of refinement which...

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

She was pretty in the way water is tasty: it does the job, but lacks pizzazz. (Skye on Charlie)

He stood gazing at her; traces of the old fresco were apparent in her face and limbs, and these he tried incessantly, afterwards, to recapture, both when he was with Odette, and when he was...

Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above.

Your body is not who you are. I don’t think women should label themselves based on the way they look. What about defining yourself by a different kind of measurement? What about your heart, your...

She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.

Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn’t raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

Perfection isn’t necessarily found only in publicly accepted trends. Perfection is found in self.

I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all...

Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself.

Gavin has tried quoting Yeats to the effect that women must labour to be beautiful, but Reynolds–who used to be a passionate Yeats fan–is now of the opinion that Yeats is entitled to his point...

I just hope that one day, in one gloriously farcical moment I will be taken completely by surprise. I hope that I trip and fall. And when that day comes I hope that all of...

Your skin is transparent as distilled moonlight

I sit in meditation…and soon all sounds, and all one sees and feels, take on imminence, an immanence, as if the Universe were coming to attention, a Universe of which one is the center, a...

What are other women really thinking, feeling, experiencing, when they slip away from the gaze and culture of men?

In a sexual double standard as to who receives consumer protection, it seems that if what you do is done to women in the name of beauty, you may do what you like. It is...

None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands.

But if a man truly loved you, he would see the beauty that lies much deeper than those scars.

You are human, you will make mistakes, and it’s one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

Kind eyes under all the mascara.

She has a look,” I said, “of not altogether belonging to today.

It’s so difficult to love another person and yourself for who they are and not what they do or who they could be. To stay in this moment and know it in all its pleasure...

BeautyIs the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic.If, after severalApplications, you do not findRelief, consult your family physician

If you are talking about beauty, books are cheaper than cosmetics.

Doing mathematics should always mean finding patterns and crafting beautiful and meaningful explanations.

Throughout the hours of the night, though there had been few to hear it, the whole sky had been loud with the singing of these constellations.

structure”, that sense of its twisting depths. I remember stars from one horizon to another, making a night sky so plush it still seems like a dream.It was a time in my life when I...

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble,...

Belladonna, n.: In Italian a beautiful lady; in English a deadly poison. A striking example of the essential identity of the two tongues.

Perhaps there were a few repetitions here and there. But I would like to confess that I consider nature and human life to be a lovely and charming flow of fleeting repetitions, and I would...

Nobody marks us.” A scientist may reply that since most of the things we call beautiful are inanimate, it is not very surprising that they take no notice of us. That, of course, is true....

If you stand before a canvas, up close, almost to the point where your nose touches paint, you will see nothing but a blurred image; an image composed of thousands of tiny dots of paint....

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

If I told you I love you nowHow many seconds would it takeHow long would you allowAll that I am to breakI turn awayBefore you can seeHow badly I need you to stayWith me