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Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?

Where one should see only what is beautiful, our public looks only for what is true.

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.

Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight, wherever the blue heaven is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms with transparent boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger, and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee, and though thou shouldest walk the world over, thou shalt not be able to find a condition inopportune or ignoble.

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you’ve got to get out and see God’s beauty of the world.

While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen appear to me for the most part, notwithstanding their arts, lower than the animals. It is not often a beautiful relation, as in the case of the animals. How little appreciation of the beauty of the landscape there is among us! We have to be told that the Greeks called the world Kosmos, Beauty, or Order, but we do not see clearly why they did so, and we esteem it at best only a curious philological fact.

While beauty made its own rules, it also created its own problems and disappointments.

Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide, Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam, And Usna's children died.

Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.

Who gave thee, O Beauty, The keys of this breast,-- Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say, when in lapsed ages Thee knew I of old? Or what was the service For which I was sold?

Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness.

Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

Why should beauty be suspect?

Why worry? If you've done the very best you can, worrying won't make it any better

Winter Song The browns, the olives, and the yellows died, And were swept up to heaven; where they glowed Each dawn and set of sun till Christmastide, And when the land lay pale for them, pale-snowed, Fell back, and down the snow-drifts flamed and flowed. From off your face, into the winds of winter, The sun-brown and the summer-gold are blowing; But they shall gleam with spiritual glinter, When paler beauty on your brows falls snowing, And through those snows my looks shall be soft-going.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

With God in the Joy of Beauty and Youth

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.

Woman, nude, is the blue sky. Clouds and garments are an obstacle to contemplation. Beauty and infinity would be gazed upon unveiled.

Without error there can be no brilliancy

Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty.

Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

Woman's nudity is wiser than the philosopher's teachings.

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow.

Women's beauty, like men's wit, is generally fatal to the owners.

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.

Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.

You are horror and beauty in rare combination.

You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.

Yet is beauty the pleasing trickery that cheateth half the world.

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!

You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake.

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

You don't have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that's where the beauty comes from

You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure.

You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.

You shouldn't been pressured into trying to be thin by the fashion industry, because they only want models that are like human mannequins. But you have to remember that it's not practical or possible for an everyday woman to look like that. Beinz size zero is a career in itself so we shouldn't try and be like them. It's not realistic and it's not healthy.

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

You think God will never forgive you, but the only God is beauty and beauty always forgives. It forgives with its infinite indifference.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.

Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss or nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.

A beautiful face cannot hide an ugly heart for long.