I love watching you – you’re a silent film of gestures

Transfixed by the bright gaze of a lizard, I become calm. This stone on which the lizard lies was under the sea when lizards first came into being, and now the flood is wearing it...

Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty ‘fixes’ that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under...

As women demanded access to power, the power structure used the beauty myth materially to undermine women’s advancement.

Beauty should be edible, or not at all.

How sad it is!” murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. “How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young....

Animals are not only beholders of great beauty, but they are also beholders of ancient wisdom.

What beauty would we see around us, if for just one second we could acknowledge the beauty that lies within ourselves?

My child has to be an artist,because conceiving her will be the best artmy body has ever accommodated.

That was the mark of genuine beauty. Not being beautiful oneself, but making everything around them beautiful.

This was the first time I thought of S— that day. Her music was beautiful, her voice was beautiful, her body was beautiful. Even the dirty little pads of her feet were beautiful. I cursed...

Look at this site – it is beautiful and deep. When we come here, we get ourselves lost in its beauty and vastness. Years of sorrow and pain lies in the depth of this lake....

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no...

Unique and different is the next generation of beautiful.

With my naked eye, on nights the moon climbs slowly, sometimes so dusted with rust and rose, brown, and gold tones that it nearly drips earth colors and seems intimately braided with Earth, it feels...

There is something divine in mindless beauty.

Eyes that are blind have no way to tell the loveliness of faces and features; eyes with no pupils have no way to tell the beauty of colored and embroidered silks.

The world now follows a zoo culture where in the weaker ones are caged and the stronger ones watch playfully –

Beauty without expression is boring.

[B]ut in Narnia your good clothes were never your uncomfortable ones. They knew how to make things that felt beautiful as well as looking beautiful in Narnia; and there was no such thing as starch...

We are the reflections for the stars to gaze upon, upon a sea of glass.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

We’re taking it a hundred miles north. That’s a hundred miles closer to where you are. I’ve decided units and measurements of distance are bullshit.With you there are only two distances that matter:Here.Not here.You are...

I’m glad I see with my eyes and not the pages I’ve read.

You never hear someone called beautiful who neglects themselves.

There is an invisible hand at work in the making of beautiful lives.

You see what you choose to see, because all perception is a choice.And when you cease to impose your meanings on what you see,your spiritual eyes will open, and you will see a world free...

You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just be beautiful and life will defend you.

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Each moment of gratitude awareness reveals the total beauty which surrounds you.

Just one smileImmensely increases the beauty Of the universe.

You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly...

But beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty – it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life – froze it. One forgot the little agitations; the flush, the pallor, some queer distortion,...

With you as an inspiration, a painter will create his best painting, a writer will write his best literature and a poet will create his best poetry.

Self-love is not the process of ignoring things, paying attention to fewer flaws or forcing yourself to look away from the parts of you that you perceive as ugly or unwanted. Self-love is the process...

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

It is how we enter through the doorway that determines the outcome of our life.

Intelligence, goodness, humanity, excitement, serenity. Over time, these are the things that change the musculature of your face, as do laughter, and animation, and especially whatever peace you can broker with the person inside.It’s furrow,...

I was thinking how you can’t tell if a person’s beautiful or not by her shadow…

Then, one paints it again.”‘- Anne Michaels, The Winter Vault

Here is to all the brilliant minds that love deeply, for they write the stories that make us dream of true love. Here is to all the visionaries that create a miracle when others give...

You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most…you are beastly.

And I was your moon because I shined brighter than any other star in your universe and you were my darkness. Without you I could not see the depth of my light and with you...

Above and about me all was space. The sky was hazy blue, and from this vantage point, I could see all the way down the Via Roma, at the far end of the forum, to...

BEL-IMPERIA: Oh let me go; for in my troubled eyesNow may’st thou read that life in passion dies.HORATIO: Oh stay a while, and I will die with thee;So shalt thou yield, and yet have conquered...

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord,She shall be praised.(Proverbs 31:30 Modern King James Version)

People despite their struggles, flaws and faults are honestly the most beautiful creatures. We are wonderfully-broken pieces of art.

Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a hip, or a clutch of very dark hair falling across...

I live in a small town now, so beauty salons are sort of like where all the gossip ruminates where I live.

In Antartica, The Wright and half a dozen other valleys in the Central Transantarctic Mountains are collectively referred to as the dry valleys. It has not rained here in two million years. No animal abides,...