The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction.

Brushing the clouds away from my eyes, I see clarity in the raindrop and beauty in the first ray of morning sun…Life is strange and wondrous…

As for women, I am perpetually assuring myself that they’re the broad highway to divinity

their heart grew coldthey let their wings down

There is no cosmetic to gain a beauty like yours.

We all dream of being exactly what we are – powerful, beautiful, and worthy.

Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

I don’t have a problem with someone using their talents to become successful, I just don’t think the highest calling is success. Things like freedom and the expansion of knowledge are beyond success, beyond the...

He who has got more than that is required to fulfill his basic need spends his resources, more often than not, on the people and the products that he does not actually need.

For she had eyes and chose me.

I suspect he’s sweet on Sophie and doesn’t like to see her work too hard.’Tessa was glad to hear it. She’d felt awful about her reaction to Sophie’s scar, and the thought that Sophie had...

The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression....

I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends. I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and...

Surely you’ve been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.

When is nothing special the most important thing? When it’s the only thing. Where we come from, beauty is so ordinary that we don’t even know we are beautiful.

Why did the world go on being so beautiful in spite of the ugliness he had experienced? The lake was beautiful, serenely beautiful. The forest was beautiful, greenly beautiful. Lake and forest, the whole shimmering...

Nothing: a landscape, a glass of wine, a little loveless love, and the vague sadness caused by our understanding nothing and having lost the little we’re given.

Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid...

People always, always talk about confidence, it’s supposed to be such an attractive thing. I wonder why though, why is it supposed to be such an attractive thing? When confidence hides so many other things...

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared. Sympathies that lie too...

Beauty exists everywhere, and in all unlikely places too. Most times our eyes might not see it, but our heart will, only if it’s open.

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in...

The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I’ve also stood in front of those same paintings with people who’ve...

[Giordano] Bruno died, despised and suffering, after eight years of agony. From that moment, his works have attracted interest, and he has long been recognized as an important figure in the development of modern thought....

Love is not concerned with a person’s accomplishments, it is a response to a person’s being: This is why a typical word of love is to say: I love you, because you are as you...

That is just what life is when it is beautiful and happy – a game! Naturally, one can also do all kinds of other things with it, make a duty of it, or a battleground,...

Somewhere out in the darkness, a phoenix was singing in a way Harry had never heard before: a stricken lament of terrible beauty. And Harry felt, as he had felt about phoenix song before, that...

You can’t be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

Me? Beautiful? I’m plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard to agree. You shine brighter than the Milky Way.Now there are those who...

Asta Sollilja slept on, her head in the corner, mouth open, chin up, and head back, with one hand under her ear and the other half-open on the coverlet as if she thought in her...

I didn’t hear you come in. I was away with the ghosts of my beautiful youth.

Very little bothers me more than seeing or hearing something so astoundingly beautiful that I am unable to put it into words.

The beauty of life is in our dream . When our actions transform our dream to a reality we become a success.

The universe create you to see its own beauty through your eyes.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.

Slowly the truth is loadingI’m weighted down with loveSnow lying deep and evenStrung out and dreaming ofNight falling on the cityQuite something to beholdDon’t it just look so prettyThis disappearing worldWe’re threading hope like fireDown...

the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls

Beauty is in all beings that love and are loved, animals and children, and if older women have it, it is because they feel completely free in this world and in their lives as they...

The noble buoyancy of her attitude, its suggestion of soaring grace, revealed the touch of poetry in her beauty that Selden always felt in her presence, yet lost the sense of when he was not...

every woman is beautifulbeyond what a magazine can see,whether she’s a size larger than 10or a size smaller than 3.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity,...

When you were in a room with Kurtis James, whether it was one or a hundred other people, Kurtis seemed to be the only one there

From this day forth I placedressmakers above philosophers. Those people bring beautyinto life, and that’s worth a hundred times the most unfathomable meditations.

Yes, it was true that Franny had gotten thicker in the last decade, but that was what happened unless you were a high-functioning psychotic, and she had other things to think about. Franny knew plenty...

Each moment is a poetic expression of the undefined. As long as it remains undefined, it has all the beauty of the world and it steps inside to nurture your dreams.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

If you’ve brains it’s better than beauty – brains last, beauty doesn’t.

This is true, at the least, that no veil of beauty hides the evils from our sight.

A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul