Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden–only ugliness and deformity.

Life is very tough and fragile at the same time, it never backs down or surrenders, but will break open to reveal its beauty and ugliness. As a evening primrose that blooms in the flooding...

Isn’t that the way God works? She’d thought. He takes the things in our lives that are ugly, disgusting, and downright wicked, and transforms them into something magnificent.

Beauty! Wasn’t that what mattered? Beauty was hardly a popular ideal at that jumpy moment in history. The masses had been desensitized to it, the intelligentsia regarded it with suspicion. To most of her peers,...

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.

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

True education should teach us how to think, how to see the beauty in the midst of ugliness, how to love without judging, how to find opportunity to help, and how to develop a peaceful...

Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace

Choosing beauty and love does not mean being uninformed or weak; it means you clearly see the ugliness, but choose love anyway.

Dans la clarté absolue, comme dans la parfaite obscurité, il n’y a ni laideur ni beauté.

In life there will be pain, suffering, ugliness, but let us be grateful for the beauty, blessing, and miracle of life.

Nothing is more important than that you see and love the beauty that is right in front of you, or else you will have no defense against the ugliness that will hem you in and...

A beautiful person is a person who can see the beauty in the midst of ugliness.

Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design—individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it...

Ugliness sees ugliness; beauty sees beauty.

It was the first time I saw the look on the face of the people I robbed: it was ugly. I was the cause of such ugliness, and the only thing that made me feel...