since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light

[Mathematics] is security. Certainty. Truth. Beauty. Insight. Structure. Architecture. I see mathematics, the part of human knowledge that I call mathematics, as one thing—one great, glorious thing. Whether it is differential topology, or functional analysis,...

I don’t know that thin and pretty is what Nat is supposed to be, though. Does that make any sense?”If she’d been holding on to any illusions about how much she liked Vince Grasso-not lusted...

I am impressed anew by… how much the harshness that challenges life is what causes the beauty. Birds fly because they must escape predators and search for food. Trees grow skyward because they compete fiercely...

Fine art refers to an accomplished or advanced skill being used to testify and reveal the knowledge, ability, and wisdom of the creator. There is no art more exquisite than the work of the Master...

You may be going through a storm right now, but understand that the sun will shine again. It is during the storm that you learn the lesson. You can either let it make you or...

[She] was a remarkable looking woman. Remarkable in that she wasn’t what most people would call beautiful. But she oozed a raw femaleness that I was certain made most women uncomfortable and sent men walking...

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

If you cannot find beauty in the midst of ugliness to find heaven on earth, you will not be able to find heaven in space.

Rachell believed passionately in the value of beauty. If she was pressed for time she considered the filling of her bowl with flowers more important for her family’s welfare than the making of a cake...

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

Beauty, happiness, they’re things so big they can’t capture them with their scientific words. It’s like what they used to call magic.

The sun, with all he planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do.

for the first time in an age, he saw the beauty of the stars, rather than the darkness between them.

…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...

It’s funny. When we were alive we spent much of our time staring up at the cosmos and wondering what was out there. We were obsessed with the moon and whether we could one day...

You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.

Maybe it’s NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.

What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?

Beauty trumps everything.

Somebody once asked me if I made a lot of money, I said I made enough. He then asked why do it, if I’m only making enough. And I said I don’t do what I...

Women need to remember that if nature has made them plain, grace can make them beautiful, and if nature has made them beautiful, good deeds can add to their beauty. Grace will make you beautiful...

I didn’t know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don’t look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

True beauty can only be found in the true Self.

The purest moment, tranquil hour of Earth’s expectancy. We lay on the soft rose sands beside the sleeping sea in happy land of fragrant meadows I dreamed a dream of. The whisper of the tide,...

Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy.It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth,But rather a heart inflamed and a soul enchanted.It is not the image you would see nor...

Back there our sun doesn’t speak.-Where’s “there,” Miss Marta?-Back there, in Europe. Here, it’s different. Here, the sun moans, whispers, shouts.-Surely-I commented delicately-the sun is always the same.- You’re wrong. There, the sun is a...

And so her parents-in-law, whom she still regarded as the most eminent people in France, declared that she was an angel; all the more so because they preferred to appear, in marrying their son to...