I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something...

Not at all. You look as though magic has taken hold of you. It must be magic because I don’t know how you can draw like that. I can barely manage a stick figure.

Do you have any idea how mad you sound?’‘Indeed I do. I have in moments of doubt considered the question of my sanity.’ (…)‘And?’‘Then I consider what a piece of work is man. How defective...

On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death. … Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity,...

Does the beauty of life remain alive without making a comparison?

Beauty is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight,or springtime, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. You have only a few years in which...

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

Swearing doesn’t make your argument valid; it just tells the other person you have lost your class and control.

To be beautiful, you have to see beauty

What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how; instruct them how the mind of man becomes a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells…

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

I walked with my eyes on the path, but out of the corners of them I saw a man hiding behind an olive tree. He did not move as we approached, but I fell that...

There’s no beauty if there’s no imperfection

There is an art to writing, and it is not always disclosure. The act itself can be beautiful, revelatory, and private.

All Beyoncé and JLo have done is add to the laundry list of attributes women must have to qualify as beautiful.

It is a beautiful and delightful sight to behold the body of the Moon.

Beauty needs a witness.

In the woodblock prints of the Genroku period one often finds the features of a pair of lovers to be surprisingly similar, with little to distinguish the man from the woman. The universal ideal of...

The cat is beauty and the beast, a baffling blend, a wicked feast.For all who dream of varied light, the cat holds both the dark and bright.

Of course to one so modern as I am, `Enfant de mon siècle,’ merely to look at the world will be always lovely. I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day...

How you carry yourself speaks volumes about how you feel about yourself.

Keep your secrets. You’re too young and beautiful not to have secrets.

There is nothing more attractive than a great positive personality. Its beauty never fades away with time.

Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.

What, in nature,” Kit asked, “is the most beautiful thing you’ve seen? Or the most terrible?””The Dismals,” Giles answered promptly. “A beautiful aberration in the lay of the land–North Alabama. A section mysteriously lowered, strewn...

Prayer is making space available for God to do beautiful things with your life.

Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none.

Only a few of us are going to be willing to break our own hearts by trading in the living beauty of imagination for the stark disappointment of words.

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful...

Because beautiful things, even when they are temporary, still manage to leave a part of their beauty with you…even after they’re long gone.

She was never able, after her education in the movies, to look at a face and not assign it some category in the scale of absolute beauty, and the scale was one she absorbed in...

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

Your hair is winter fire,January embers.My heart burns there, too.-Stephen King, IT

You always were beautiful, and you always will be beautiful.

Even if we fall apart, even if we don’t stay together, even if we Die there is this beauty about Love that keeps us alive in each others’ heart, acting as a catalyst for beating...

When you feel lost turn towards love. Become a seeker of beauty in all things.

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses.

The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction.

Brushing the clouds away from my eyes, I see clarity in the raindrop and beauty in the first ray of morning sun…Life is strange and wondrous…

As for women, I am perpetually assuring myself that they’re the broad highway to divinity

their heart grew coldthey let their wings down

There is no cosmetic to gain a beauty like yours.

We all dream of being exactly what we are – powerful, beautiful, and worthy.

Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the...

He who has got more than that is required to fulfill his basic need spends his resources, more often than not, on the people and the products that he does not actually need.

For she had eyes and chose me.

I suspect he’s sweet on Sophie and doesn’t like to see her work too hard.’Tessa was glad to hear it. She’d felt awful about her reaction to Sophie’s scar, and the thought that Sophie had...

The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression....