In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided...

It was beautiful, Mabel knew, but it was a beauty that ripped you open and scoured you clean so that you were left helpless and exposed, if you lived at all.

Nature alone can lead to the understanding of art, just as art brings us back to nature with greater awarness. It is the source of all beauty, since it is the source of all life.

It was as if they had climbed the last hill in creation.

Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday.

Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you.

In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill.

Happiness is in nature, beauty, and tranquility.

Happiness will be abundant in your life when there is love, beauty, rhythm, and rhyme.

I must pack my short lifer full of interesting events and creative activity. Philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. I intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach...

The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it, and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful. If nature were...

So beautiful, you break my heart.

That is her style of beauty.

When I was your age…I wish I’d known that I already had everything I needed within myself to be happy, instead of looking for happiness at beauty counters.

I have a stalker, a beautiful one: the sunset. Every day she’s there, watching me, whether I watch her or not.

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.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.But you are eternity and you are the mirror.

Like wildflowers, growing up in the middle of a tire, along the side of the road. You’re not like prize roses, carefully planted in the right soil and pruned back at the right times. You’re...

… he was like a man into whose life a woman, whom he has seen for a moment passing by, has brought a new form of beauty, which strengthens and enlarges his own power of...

Many years later when I began training as a plastic surgeon, I understood something that I had not that day in the kitchen arguing for Thalia to leave Tinos for the boarding school. I learned...

The shopkeeper called her brave and beautiful. Jacin called her blinding. It was kind of nice to know that they were both wrong.

She was dressed in white, and her tunic had amazing flared sleeves which trailed on the ground behind her as she glided down the stairs. Her hair was a mass of dark curls tumbling around...

There is something gratuitous about creation, an unnecessary abundance of beauty, and through its blossoms and pleasures we can revel in the sheer largesse of the Father.

In every remote corner of the world there are people like Carl Jones and Don Merton who have devoted their lives to saving threatened species. Very often, their determination is all that stands between an...

He embraces all things that are lovely: he seals up the sum of all loveliness. Things that shine as single stars with a particular glory, all meet in Christ as a glorious constellation. Col. 1:19,...

It’s funny how, when things seem the darkest, moments of beauty present themselves in the most unexpected places.

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...