Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave – that is, to...

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

They may talk of a comet, or a burning mountain, or some such bagatelle; but to me a modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

She’s not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.

True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.

People who say you are ugly, may be true, because to them, you look like a monster. People who say you are beautiful, may also be true, because to them, you look like an angel.

Faded is my heart…. Faded is my dream….Faded they may seem…. Never I scream!

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Dear Men Everywhere,Please don’t think that being a feminist means we hate you or don’t need you. -We absolutely love you and couldn’t live without you! …We are just on a mission to be treated...

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A couple of them were school beauty-queen pretty while a few were that more real-looking type. A realer kind of pretty.

Beauty with innocence is a double beauty!

…don’t you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don’t you covet that power?..

Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God himself and his revelation. These considerations should make us realize the care which...

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

Sexual satisfaction eases the stranglehold of materialism, since status symbols no longer look sexual, but irrelevant. Product lust weakens where emotional and sexual lust intensifies. The price we pay for artificially buoying up this market...

Beauty is a form of Genius–is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark...

Beauty is not the flawless perfection of youth, but the fine lines, scars, and wisdom which only living can give you.

No doubt there are some who, when confronted with a line of mathematical symbols, however simply presented, can only see the face of a stern parent or teacher who tried to force into them a...

This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from...

No time to see, in broad daylight,Streams full of stars, like skies at night.No time to turn at Beauty’s glance,And watch her feet, how they can dance.No time to wait till her mouth canEnrich that...

The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes...

La beauté séduit la chair pour obtenir la permission de passer jusqu’à l’ me.

If we only arrange our life in accordance with the principle which tells us that we must always trust in the difficult, then what now appears to us as the most alien will become our...

To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people...

Broken people are beautiful. They have to put themselves back together every day.

With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.

Some days I wake upand all I feelare the fracturesin the flesh that coversthe only meI’ve ever known.Some days,it’s those exact fissuresthat let the lighthiding inside mepour outand coverin goldeveryonethat found enough beautyin the cracksto...

Because I think that by beauty, you don’t just mean something that’s pretty. You mean something that makes us human.

Nothing is quite beautiful alone: nothing but is beautiful in the whole. A single object is only so far beautiful as it suggests this universal grace. The poet, the painter, the sculptor, the musician, the...

Everything about riding a bicycle compels you towards beauty.

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.

Between the wrinkles of age and her features which indicated a number of years resided a beauty that was touching and awakened trust. Since by now I had observed many faces quite closely in order...

The beauty of melancholy cannot be attained by looking. You must embrace the terror it breeds. Then you will be pleased.

The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?

Pesta Yunani, pesta kaum demokrat yang membuktikan betapa filsafat dan kegembiraan murni benar-benar adalah saudara sekandung, karena kedua-duanya lahir dari rahim keindahan, yang tiada lain ialah cahaya cerlang keteraturan dan kebenaran, yang telah dibuahi oleh...

Quit lying to yourself and accept your power and beauty. Liberate yourself from the slow-death you call life.

When in doubt, be ridiculous.

Finding beauty in the common is the sign of a gifted mind.

For true beauty—beauty, as it were, with a capital B—is terrifying; it puts us in our place; it reflects back to us our own ugliness. It is the prize beyond price.

A life of success comes from seeking a life of beauty.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

if beauty is a promise of happiness then keeping a promise is the most beautiful beauty.

In a land that knew only dark beauty, she was something of a hybrid no one dared touch. But the tall Arab did not appear in the least daunted by her abnormality. No, she saw...

All women may not be beautiful but every woman can look beautiful.

When he appeared before the lord, his lordship was smitten immediately with the boy’s unadorned beauty, like a first glimpse of the moon rising above a distant mountain. The boy’s hair gleamed like the feathers...

In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.

If there exist fortunate people, if from time to time the wild sun of joy soars towards foreign lands in a sweet whirling of ecstasy — then where are the words which might tell of...

Vision is a beautiful picture clicked with the roll of soul involving mind and heart to do introspection of the past, reflection of the present and connection with the future to see things considered impossible...

The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not...