A person however learned and qualified in his life’s work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant

He stood there a moment, listened to the creek, and let the mountain air blow against his face. Even with all this heartache, it was beautiful here.

The devil himself can become beauty, so we are told, to corrupt mankind.”(Marco)

The beauty of that June day was almost staggering. After the wet spring, everything that could turn green had outdone itself in greenness and everything that could even dream of blooming or blossoming was in...

It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.

It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.

…see the blessing and beauty that you are.

To see the true beauty of a person, see through the mirror of your love.

That’s the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail leading into the unknown to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the...

Réduites à des théories générales, les mathématiques seraient une belle forme sans contenu.Reduced to general theories, mathematics would be a beautiful form without content.

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth Upon the earth without a meet alloy.

The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and despair, sadness and voluptuousness. The burning transcendence has something of...

We are expected to be pretty and well-dressed until we drop.

Let beauty be your end. Why should you mint beauty into gold? Anyway, you can’t;

There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect.Thus I lust over the flawless,and fall amorously forceless to the flawed.

Attraction is easily manufactured.

I did. And if you stuck him, and stuffed him, and hung him on the wall, I’d be very glad to admire him. But in life he’s an arrogant pig, and I didn’t care for...

Life is crazy, unexpected, and endlessly beautiful.

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say – no detail spared in the quest for perfection.

Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over...

Ah, sir, that’s just mean. She’s not a Victoria’s Secret model, but she’s pretty in her way.

Do you know, Mrs. Allan, I’m thankful for friendship. It beautifies life so much.” “True friendship is a very helpful thing indeed,” said Mrs. Allan, “and we should have a very high ideal of it...

We are alive, the wolves said. And the world is beautiful.

The secret to youth is to fill your mind with beauty! Amen

I snorted “oh, beauty. What’s that good for?”Mary stared, her eyes round.”It won you the prince, did it not?”I snorted again, I prefer to think that he was captivated by my charming personality.” I giggled...

I have to confess, there is no limit in beauty

The beauty is in the mystery, don’t you agree?- Hayden

If I could find the right words, I’d say what the blue sky says.

Remember that there are two kinds of beauty: one of the soul and the other of the body. That of the soul displays its radiance in intelligence, in chastity, in good conduct, in generosity, and...

And warns us to use life’s beauty as it blooms. The thorn is spurned when the rose has dropped.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that’s...

Why do beautiful songs make you sad?’ ‘Because they aren’t true.’ ‘Never?’ ‘Nothing is beautiful and true.

The beauty of obedience is that what God expects you to do, He also enables you to do.

Nonetheless, when it finally ended and the hairdressers left and Tess insisted upon pulling her to the mirror, Fire saw, and understood, that everyone had done the job well. The dress, deep shimmering purple and...

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

But why talk in superlatives, as if something that is beautiful could be surpassed?

He stood gazing at her; traces of the old fresco were apparent in her face and limbs, and these he tried incessantly, afterwards, to recapture, both when he was with Odette, and when he was...

Nothing came out. Suddenly I was hovering, looking down on myself from above.

Your body is not who you are. I don’t think women should label themselves based on the way they look. What about defining yourself by a different kind of measurement? What about your heart, your...

She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.

Bees blew like cake-crumbs through the golden air, white butterflies like sugared wafers, and when it wasn’t raining a diamond dust took over which veiled and yet magnified all things

Perfection isn’t necessarily found only in publicly accepted trends. Perfection is found in self.

I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all...

Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself.

Gavin has tried quoting Yeats to the effect that women must labour to be beautiful, but Reynolds–who used to be a passionate Yeats fan–is now of the opinion that Yeats is entitled to his point...

He smiled. He liked to imagine that she saw the beauty, that she could think outside the well-worn tracks of her countrymen, find something to like about this unsophisticated place. Because that just might mean...

…I will find once again the light of your beauty – your colored windows in the night…

Men are visually aroused by women’s bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women’s personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because...

The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the doll’s house; a generation ago, women turned their backs on the...