For one of the first pressures that bear down on American girls is the pressure not only to be liked but to be like everyone else. This initial feat of self-transformation often involves loosening one’s...

Thank God I have seen an orange sky with purple clouds. How easy it is to forget that we have the privilege of living in God’s art gallery.

At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God’s face.

Perhaps as writers, we too should embrace the concept of wabi-sabi:

I would like to be like Rome when I am an old lady.

Miu let age naturally rise to the surface, accepted it for what it was, and made her peace with it.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world…

…And every day in heaven will be more beautiful than the one before it Davy,” assured Anne.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Beauty is a blessing not a hindrance.

We have been tarnished by the views of generations, painted on with society’s standards, but if we wipe away the dust, and polish the heart within, you will discover that the surface underneath is lustrous.

Out in the fjord I dragged myself up at once, wet with fever and exhaustion, and gazed landwards, and bade farewell for the present to the town – to Christiania, where the windows gleamed so...

Beauty is an inner light that shines on the outside.

Beauty is something that changes your life, not something you understand.

The sea is calm tonight.The tide is full, the moon lies fairUpon the straits;- on the French coast the lightGleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand,glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay.

It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible, the results of that need are. But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than...

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

For Nicole, my idea of beauty

Beauty for a life long, it is an agony of torture.

Your brothers are the foolish ones for not seeing the strength in beautiful things.

I have been mocked by beauty, too. But it was the beauty which cost me nothing that in the end turned upon me.

We all want relationships that are healthy and resolved, and sometimes that simply doesn’t happen. But the beauty of life is that inside these disappointments are hidden the most miraculous of blessings. What we lose...

She had thought, instinctively, that Victoria had a remarkably beautiful face. The face showed an alert awareness of life: her lips- full, overblown like clown-lips liable to laugh at the slightest provocation. She thought that...

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it...

Rome was mud and smoky skies; the rank smell of the Tiber and the exotically spiced cooking fires of a hundred different nationalities. Rome was white marble and gilding and heady perfumes; the blare of...

The paradise in women is not the v-shape manipulation between their legs, or the two lovely bombs, set on their bosom that can blast any strong, holy spirit filled individual, but that part of her...

It is neither wise nor honest to detract from beauty as a quality. There cannot be a refined soul insensible to its influence.

To speak of sparing anything because it is beautiful is to waste one’s breath and incur ridicule in the bargain. The aesthetic sense- the power to enjoy through the eye, and the ear, and the...

I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what she was saying, in my dreams. In those dreams I spoke that language...

The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon – forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest...

You can’t rely on how you look to sustain you, what sustains us, what is fundamentally beautiful is compassion; for yourself and for those around you.

Carrying confidence isn’t being the person everyone likes, it’s being yourself, regardless of who likes you.

The beauty is an illusion, and also a warning: there’s a dark side to beauty, as with poisonous butterflies.

Which would you rather be if you had the choice–divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

Mirrors lie.

A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own...

For the first time in history, children are growing up whose earliest sexual imprinting derives not from a living human being, or fantasies of their own; since the 1960s pornographic upsurge, the sexuality of children...

Vogue began to focus on the body as much as on the clothes, in part because there was little they could dictate with the anarchic styles…In a stunning move, an entire replacement culture was developed...

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody else got tired of her shit

Physical attractiveness is no indicator of an individual’s beauty.”from “The Beauty of Ugh

Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people.

Do you think I’m pretty?I think you’re beautifulBeautiful?You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.

A glorious death would be in myfinal breath to take before I die, to hearone final time on my belovèd’s mouththe sound of her eternal sigh.

The birds of anonymity fly high above in our shared sky. Witness their beauty.

It’s not perfection that makes you beautiful, It’s your imperfections

simple natural lookis the best look

Products produced cheaply create ugly work lives and ugly households and ugly communities. Profits produced quickly cannot purchase patience and care. Patience is beautiful. Restraint and care are beautiful. Peace is beautiful. A small, diversified...

Christ is, then, the perfect art work in the sense of that reality in whom is realised those goals that all artistic making has as its explicit or implicit ends. Because he is infinite meaning,...

Fire, loveliest of the four elements of the world, and yet an element too in Hell. While it burned adoringly in the core of the Temple, it had also scorched the life from a city,...

The scientific creation story has majesty, power and beauty. and is infused with a powerful message capable of lifting our spirits in a way that its multitudinous supernatural counterparts are incapable of matching. It teaches...