…he talked quite naturally while we ate — about the difficulty of finding words to describe the luminous mist, and why one has the desire to describe beauty.”Perhaps it’s an attempt to possess it,” I...

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature’s finest balm

He must have been handsome when he was alive and was handsome still, although made monstrous by his pallor and her awareness of what he was. His mouth looked soft, his cheekbones as sharp as...

In the morning, celebrate the beauty and warmth of sun light,in the evening, celebrate the song of silence and love of night.

Take a deep breath and feel the joy of life. Open your eyes and see the beauty of a dancing leaf.

The purpose of a writer is to show the beauty and tragedy of life in the reader’s own mirror.

There’s nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding–it’s got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl.

I see an actress smoking a cigarette in an old Fred McMurray movie. She’s clever and beautiful and manipulative. I feel envy. I suddenly wish I smoked cigarettes and was as clever and beautiful and...

If you can’t compete with beauty, compete with wisdom; because wisdom is a powerful sword~

Look at the stars. See their beauty. And in that beauty, see yourself.

Love is stronger than both fear and hope – if you can love the natural beauty around you, the amazing gifts and skills we have, the fact that you are alive to experience life, each...

She was a tall drink of water, and I was a glass half full kind of guy—half full of lust. Actually, my glass was half full of Kool-Aid powder, which is why I lusted for...

In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.

I say that almost everywhere there is beauty enough to fill a person’s life if one would only be sensitive to it. but Henry says No: that broken beauty is only a torment, that one...

Oh, mercy, there is nothing monstrously ugly about you. Ruth may be unpleasing, but you are merely plain. If anything, it’s my beauty that’s monstrous, for it sweeps away any other aspect of my character.

And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth’s shore. These mountains, which have seen untold...

She was the most beautiful creature on Earth – her hair said so in that language only hair can speak.

A writer in early 1930, boosting the beauty business, started off a magazine article with the sentence: “The average American woman has sixteen square feet of skin.

There is no reason for beauty. It just is.

I cannot deny that Vera, in her own way–in the way of all human beings who are kind and not cruel–really is lovely.

I’m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across—not to just depict life—or criticize it—but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me...

Since he’d stepped out of medical school, all he’d ever done was fulfil the same three basic templates, again and again and again. The possibility of infinite variation had led only to convergence.

Beauty is wishing for loneliness without any regret and complains.

You can only possess beauty through understanding it.

Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood.

Who was this girl alone so late at nightin search of a faded cassette illusion to disembowel the clocks of time’s intrusion? Those eyes belonged to the most beautiful maniac I’ve ever met. Our love...

A woman’s beauty should not imitate art.

Be lead by the present spirit of ideas in your wildest dreams. Their mysterious pull on your life is a singular) summons, sent with a divine invitation. Trust + obey this guidance. In accepting your...

Fashion Fact: Most people make the assumption that I wear trendy shades the majority of the time (often indoors) to protect my eyes from the elements. But in fact it’s the reverse. I’m protecting the...

Everything, if you could only see it clearly enough, like this, is beautiful and complete. Everything has its own perfection.

I fought angrily against seeing particular types of poetic organization because it seemed awful to see my own life and these actual events in that way. But when you put forth an intention into the...

The tea-masters held that real appreciation of art is only possible to those who make of it a living influence. Thus they sought to regulate their daily life by the high standard of refinement which...

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

She was pretty in the way water is tasty: it does the job, but lacks pizzazz. (Skye on Charlie)

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...

The mass depiction of the modern woman as a “beauty” is a contradiction: Where modern women are growing, moving, and expressing their individuality, as the myth has it, “beauty” is by definition inert, timeless, and...

Even those afraid of the dark must live through half of each day as night, to come to see the beauty in each.