All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much access to Daddy’s credit cards. Girls who, if you took away the designer labels, hair dye...

I want to help you to grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when He thought of you first.

…There are issues worth advancing in images worth admiring; and the truth is never “plain,” nor appearances ever “sincere.” To try to make them so is to neutralize the primary, gorgeous eccentricity of imagery in...

I’m still trying to defog the bathroom mirror to see the dream for what it clearly is.

Yet even so, Jon Snow was not sorry he had come. There were wonders here as well. He had seen sunlight flashing on icy thin waterfalls as they plunged over the lips of sheer stone...

I think the biggest lie the devil ever told was that beauty and goodness are the same.

Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day’s end. They were manifesting as the earth’s bright-colored nerve endings, the sun’s descent urging them...

…[F]ireworks had for her a direct and magical appeal. Their attraction was more complex than that of any other form of art. They had pattern and sequence, colour and sound, brilliance and mobility; they had...

Perfect beauty could be so ugly.

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot be bargained down. And sometimes the meal is the only currency that is...

…but don’t tell me I’m not sensitive to beauty. That’s my Achilles’ heel, and don’t you forget it. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I’m limp, by God…

A woman can’t do anything about her appearance. Either she’s pretty or she isn’t. But her character is quite another matter.

Have all beautiful things sad destinies?

A girl stood before him in midstream, alone and still, gazing out to sea. She seemed like one whom magic had changed into the likeness of a strange and beautiful seabird. Her long slender bare...

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

…but beautiful mosaics are made of broken pieces.

Beauty is what we have seen and what we are going to see in the future. It is the totality of physical, emotional and biological structures we have created within generations intentionally or unintentionally for...

You’re beautiful, just the way you are. Shine on. And dare anyone to turn off the lights.

You can spit on a rose, but it’s still a rose.

…so individuals have their flesh cut and pulled, surgery companies proclaim it as an empowering choice, and the stifling cultural ideals about women’s appearance are left unscathed

And sometimes when I’m feeling really evil, I read books or paint.

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.

The whole of my life I have relied on my beauty first, brains second. It was expected, even requested. But You saw right through me from the start. You are the only man I’ve ever...

Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge women only by what can be seen. But those who...

Cultivate a passion for truth.Pursue a life of charity.Enjoy the beauty found in every day.

I love the quietude of misty dawn before the sober sun is up… The morning songs of birds awakening in blooming garden sets my soul gently… Aroma flowers with glistering of the dew… Deep full...

You are the Queen of the queens,A matchless beauty the kind unseen,Your face is pure the kind adored,Your eyes, your lips – bewildering.[303]- 1

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...