He looked into the crowd for approval, saw his mother and father. He waved and they waved back. Smiles and Indian teeth. They were both drunk. Everything familiar and welcome. Everything beautiful.

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

For three things concur in creating beauty: first of all integrity or perfection, and for this reason we consider ugly all incomplete things; then proper proportion or consonance; and finally clarity and light, and in...

She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn’t notice the difference too.

By day it is filled with boat traffic – waterbuses, delivery boats, gondolas – if something floats and it’s in Venice, it moves along the Grand Canal.And by daylight it is one of the glories...

If they want me to have mysticism, okay, I’ve got it.I’m a mystic, but only in my body,My soul is simple and doesn’t think.

You are you, no one else is you, you are the right you, and the right you, is the you that you love.

Play like a child, because you are still that beautiful child.

What if feeling good only comes after you destroy someone you hate?”That’s not good, that’s triumph,

A beautiful person is protected like a beautiful flower in a garden which many gardeners tend.

This I have known, and these have come againWith echoing happiness in heart and brain;Time standing still, surrendering to meBeauty that otherwise would cease to be.

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

It’s my choice to be beautiful. It’s my choice to be ugly. And it’s my choice to decided what those words actually mean.

Admire the efforts of a failure like you admire the beauty of a sunset.

Success in life to be determined by our contributions

An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.

I follow Plato only with my mindPure beauty strikes me as a little thinA little cold, however beautiful.I am in love with what is mixed and impureDoubtful, dark and hard to disencumberI want beauty I...

Focus your energy on peace, bliss, and beauty. Life will be blissful and the world will be peaceful.

Intellectual freedom begins when one says with Socrates that he knows that he knows nothing, and then goes on to add: Do you know what you don’t know and therefore what you should know? If...

A man can define many things beautifully in his life, but his character is one beautiful thing that can define him instantly and completely.

Beauty itself doth of itself persuadeThe eyes of men without orator.

I am such a bad girl,” she thought. Yet…

A bore or an uggo might manage not to get up anyone’s nose, but if a girl’s got brains and looks and personality, she’s going to piss someone off, somewhere along the way.

True beauty” comes, of course, of character. Not through how the eyebrows are shaped. So many women that I’m told are beautiful… hell, it’s like looking into a soup bowl.

Dance,’ they told me, and I stood still,and while I stood quiet in line at the gate of the Kingdom, I danced.’Pray,’ they said, and I laughed,covering myself in the earth’s brightnesses,and then stole off...

I thought I would have a heart attack just looking at you.

In times like these, who had either the leisure or the inclination to indulge in a touch of elegance?

Pain is a pesky part of being human, I’ve learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden...

One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.

It’s all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the macho stances, the beauty standard, it’s all just one charade masking a never ending hard on.

To own beauty is the first lie of it.

To enjoy beauty in the company of myself is to experience beauty bound by the limits of the sole person that I am. But, to experience beauty in the company of God is to experience...

…all his thoughts were of how lucky he was to inhabit such a beautiful earth, how lucky he had been to solve his problems with music, and how pleasant it was to look forward to...

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don’t you?

As far as cosmetics are used for adornment in a conscious and creative way, they are not emblems of inauthenticity: it is when they are presented as the real thing, covering unsightly blemishes, disguising a...

The new acts’ major influences were movies and their curvy queens Brigitte Bardot and Marilyn Monroe. With their big blonde hair, ample breasts, and highly fertile hips, these bombshells inspired women everywhere to exxagerate their...

To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.

Beautiful toes are an addition to a woman’s appearance.

The menopause of Sarah became her menostart; this is feminine beauty! The death plot against Mordecai became his life spring; this is masculine beauty! A kind of life lived in God’s word is a life...

Crippled things are always more beautiful. It’s the flaw that brings out beauty.

in the know” assured me that they were beautiful.

Kindness is the magical beauty of a person.

A writer travels through the heart again and again to express the beauty of its contents.

Men see beauty wherever they can get it. But that’s the allure of the Red Light Princess. Like any good whore, she’s whoever you want her to be.

Aristocracy’s only an admission that certain traits which we call fine – courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing – can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don’t...

Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty...

He remembered Alejandra and the sadness he’d first seen in the slope of her shoulders which he’d presumed to understand and of which he knew nothing and he felt a loneliness he’d not known since...

Beauty isn’t made of sugar.

I didn’t care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years–it took the experience of lived time–to realize that they really are the same thing.