I once laughed at the vanity of women of thirty or forty who whitened their ruddy old skin with lead, but now I know such salves are not disguises for old crones who wish to...

But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

I have found so much beauty in the dark,as I have found a lot of horror in the light.

God is not a separate entity outside of ones self. God is love meaning a personal acceptance of ones “higher” self. Now, your ego, that’s a whole other side of your- self.

Writing takes a combination of sophistication and innocence; it takes conscience, our belief that something is beautiful because it is right.

I had zero idea of what I was doing.. I honestly had no idea where to start. All I knew was I had something I craved to say.. I wanted to create art that lived...

Looking at him now-even if she hadn’t been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother’s daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.

A blind man can’t forget the eyesight he lost, show me any beautiful girl. How can her beauty not remind me of the one whose beauty surpasses hers?

There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

All my life I have refused to be for or against parties, for or against nations, for or against people. I never seek novelty or the eccentric; I do not go from land to land...

She had the most beautiful awkwardness

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

Beauty is frightening,” they will tell you —Lazily you will arrangeA Spanish shawl on your shoulders,A red rose in your hair.”Beauty is simple,” they will tell you —Clumsily with a motley shawlYou will cover a...

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

When you look for beauty, you usually end up finding it.From Central Park Song (A Screenplay)

Beauty runs skin deep not on superficial assumptions or criticisms of many people. Live with a beautiful mind and heart. Live with a beautiful soul.

All girls are beautiful, and when they say they’re ugly they only lie to themselves, for it’s impossible for them to be ugly.

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.

Don’t love just for beauty, love to make her beautiful.

An optimist sees the beauty in the midst of ugliness.

Kisses were better than potions.

New clothes left Sylvia reeling with happiness. For Sylvia, a shopping list was a poem. She always shopped alone – it suited her deliberate nature and the artistic joy with which she approached all things...

Inspiration is everywhere.

If the pirate with a scarf had been more poetically minded he’d have thought that her eyes were like a thousand emeralds, glittering in a far-off pirate treasure chest. But he wasn’t, so he just...

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White’s game. There’s an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

I think her favorite thing about our . . . collaboration was her actor and musician friends rubbing shoulders with my academic colleagues, she liked the atmosphere of challenge, the way anything that came under...

Plant the trees just for beauty,If flowers bloom or fruits ripen, Enjoy it as a gift and appreciate nature as a universal giver.

Let happiness bloom. In the caring love,In the softness of your tender voice,In the nonjudgmental love,In the beauty and pureness of a smile.

Life has its beauty in its simplicity. Ugliness raises her head with complexity.

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secretion alters his features, animates his gestures, and colors his voice. The stupidest man will often, under the...

And yet the cares are many and the hours of toil are few;There is not time enough on earth for all I’d like to do;But, having lived and having toiled, I’d like the world to...

Even now, I still believe metamorphosis is the greatest beauty.

fire is beautifuland we know that if we gettoo close it will kill usbut what does that matterit is better to be happy for a momentand be burned up with beautythan to live a long...

There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. … A man sees only what concerns him.

A bloody sword is a beautiful thing.

Do you know what makes someone beautiful? Confidence. You don’t have to have this shape eyes or that shape lips. No one seems to be able to decide which shape is best anyway. You can...

The pretty ones are usually unhappy. They expect everyone to be enamored of their beauty. How can a person be content when their happiness lies in someone else’s hands, ready to be crushed at any...

I, Lexi Anderson, am proud to say that I do, indeed, have a great personality.And it’s only a matter of time before the Beautiful People will be wishing they had great personalities, too.Good luck with...

Whatever is destroyed, the act of destruction does not vary much. Beauty if vapour from the pit of death.

To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business—not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything...

The first time I saw you, my heart fell. The second time I saw you, my heart fell. The third time fourth time fifth time and every time since, my heart has fallen.I stared at...

That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life – probably too much – in just standing and...

Imagination is the faculty of the mind that God has given us to make the communication of his beauty beautiful.

I don’t analyze beautiful. I sit in its presence and love the wholeness of it–the sweet and sad and raw and bright together.Poetry is that, the weaving of light-shadow. Making words from the unwordable.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

You are a pool of clear water where the light plays

Get up and stop crying my little girl, if you don’t have new clothes to wear don’t worry, still stars are whispering about your beauty.

In the midst of our struggle to find out who we are, there are infinite possibilities for beauty, and hope, and wonder, and love.

The beauty of this day doesn’t depend on its lasting forever.

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