She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of a night when you waken to see the time and see the...

Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder.

May she be granted beauty and yet notBeauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught,Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,Being made beautiful overmuch,Consider beauty a sufficient end,Lose natural kindness and maybeThe heart-revealing intimacyThat chooses right,...

In the moment before I crossed over, I knew that the priests and magicians of Egypt were fools and charlatans for promising to prolong the beauties of life beyond the world we are give. Death...

young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasn’t fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how different her face...

It was partly the war, the revolution did the rest. The war was an artificial break in life– as if life could be put off for a time– what nonsense! The revolution broke out willy-nilly...

If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every...

It’s not love at first sight, it’s having the sight, to distinguish true love, from just mere beauty.

Hating skin color is contempt for God’s divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.

In America, alas, beauty has become something you drive to, and nature an either/or proposition–either you ruthlessly subjugate it, as at Tocks Dam and a million other places, or you deify it, treat it as...

Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope,...

There is nothing these hands can hold worth having. They cannot hold the moonlight, or the melody of a song, or even the beauty of a woman. They can touch her face, but not her...

Don’t let psychological warfare from an advertisement campaign blind you from the truth of your beauty, possibility, worthiness, and purpose.

Let’s be simple and calm,Like brooks and trees,And God will love us by makingBeautiful things like the trees and brooks for us,And give us greenness in his spring,And a river for us to go to...

Your life plays out as a reflection of your genetic makeup and potentiality as expressed through your environment and choices. Love yourself enough to create an environment in your life that is conducive to the...

Take a stand: live for love, truth, beauty!

Every thing is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

From time to time, in the moments when you need it most, God will speak to you to remind you of your beauty.

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive

Andrei, did you like the opera?””Not particularly.””Andrei, do you see what you’re missing?””I don’t think I do, Kira. It’s all rather silly. And useless.””Can’t you enjoy things that are useless, merely because they are beautiful?””No....

No sooner have you feasted on beauty with your eyes than your mind tells you that beauty is vain and beauty passes

A little girl loves her bird–Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt...

How very lovable her face was to him. Yet there was nothing ethereal about it; all was real vitality, real warmth, real incarnation. And it was in her mouth that this culminated. Eyes almost as...

I tended to find lines of poetry beautiful only when I encountered them quoted in prose, in the essays my professors had assigned in college, where the line breaks were replaced with slashes, so that...

It doesn’t matter if your life is perfect as long as your hair color is.

If a person finds the negative people in his network, then he needs to mind or mend his own nature than others for his basic grounding decides only the level of acidic or toxic surrounding.

Sonnet 130My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.I...

Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.

Be not self-willed, for thou art much too fairTo be death’s conquest and make worms thine heir.

Le serpent qui danseQue j’aime voir, chère indolente,De ton corps si beau,Comme une étoffe vacillante,Miroiter la peau!Sur ta chevelure profondeAux acres parfums,Mer odorante et vagabondeAux flots bleus et bruns,Comme un navire qui s’éveilleAu vent du...

Houses, housetops, like human beings have wonderful character. The lives of housetops. The wear of the seasons. The country is beautiful, young, growing things. The majesty of trees. The backs of tenement houses are living...

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Anyone who seesbeauty and doesnot look atit will soonbe poor.

Once you are able to move beyond the concept of time, so too will you move beyond having any judging or condemning thoughts or feelings about any being, situation or event. When you have nothing...

When I’m depressed, I read Caeiro — he’s my fresh air. I become very calm, content, faithful — yes, I find faith in God, and in the soul’s transcendent living smallness, after reading the poems...

Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.

And so the beauty was in being alone; but it was also the pain.

What is GRACE? an individual, inspiring and virtuous impulse, that streams the spirit with life! An elegance and divinity of one’s beauty.

Stop rejecting that unique pathway that was designed exclusively for you. Embrace your destiny, respect yourself and love others.

Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten,Eternal Wisdom can never die …

Flowers carry not only beauty but also the silent song of love. You just have to feel it.

Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue of the sky, full of stars, all solemn and golden, which extended their radiance unconcernedly into the distance....

When you say ugly you mean your beauty is not now in style.

And yonder sits a maiden, The fairest of the fair, With gold in her garment glittering, And she combs her golden hair.

real world”. Refuse normalcy. Beauty is everywhere, love is endless, and joy bleeds from our everyday existence. Embrace it. I love all of you, all my friends, family, and community. I am ceaselessly grateful from...

If Los Angeles is a woman reclining billboard model and the San Fernando Valley is her teenybopper sister, then New York is their cousin. Her hair is dyed autumn red or aubergine or Egyptian henna,...

Beauty, to me, is an esoteric energy that I can’t fully comprehend. I’m surrounded by inexplicable beauty all the time.

Youth is to wander! Adult is to act! Age is to assimilate the beauty of thoughts.

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.

Truly I am God’s Beauty, His Trophy, His Outstretched Arms…I am here for His Glory and Pleasure.