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I touch the double row of silver hoop earrings hanging from his left ear, trail along his jawline, his neck, down his shoulder, to the flaming tail of the dragon on his arm. He leans into the caress, and my own body feels on fire with the continued way his eyes gaze upon me. The first moment I saw him, the night people clamored over each other to step out of his way, I was frightened. The guy with earrings and tattoos and an energy radiating danger. Now—inside and out—all I see is beauty.
— Katie McGarry, Crash into You
It throbbed and pulsed, channeled by elemental forces of fear, love, hope, and sadness. The bow stabbed and flitted across the strings in a violent whorl of creation; its hairs tore and split until it seemed the last strands would sever in a scrape of dissonance. Those who saw the last fragile remnants held their breath against the breaking. The music rippled across the ship like a spirit, like a thing alive and eldritch and pregnant with mystery. The song held. More than held, it deepened. It groaned. It resounded in the hollows of those who heard. Then it softened into tones long, slow, and patient and reminded men of the faintest stars trembling dimly in defiance of a ravening dark. At the last, when the golden hairs of the bow had given all the sound they knew, the music fled in a whisper. Fin was both emptied and filled, and the song sighed away on the wind.
— A.S. Peterson, Fiddler's Green
The forces of blind life that work across this hilltop are as irresistible as she said they were, they work by a principle more potent than fission. But I can’t look upon them as just life, impartial and eternal and in flux, an unceasing interchange of protein. And I can’t find proofs of the crawl toward perfection that she believed in. Maybe what we call evil is only as she told me that first day we met, what conflicts with our interests; but maybe there are such realities as ignorance, selfishness, jealousy, malice, criminal carelessness, and maybe these things are evil no mater whose interests they serve or conflict with.
— Wallace Stegner, All the Little Live Things
True beauty, the kind that doesn’t fade or wash off, takes time. It takes pressure. It takes incredible endurance. It is the slow drip that makes the stalactite, the shaking of the earth that creates mountains, the constant pounding of the waves that break up the rocks and smooths the rough edges. And from the violence, the furor, the raging of the winds, the roaring of the waters, something better emerges, something that would otherwise never exist.And so we endure. We have faith that there is purpose. We hope for things we cant see. We believe that there are lessons in loss, power in love, and that we have within us the potential for a beauty so magnificent that our bodies cant contain it.
— Amy Harmon, Making Faces
Find beauty in the madness.
— A.D. Posey
I have always said that the way to deal with the pain of other’s is by sympathy, which is suffering with, and that the way to deal with one’s own pain is to put one foot after the other. Yet I was never willing to suffer with others, and when my own pain hit me, I crawled into hole. Sympathy I have failed in, stoicism I have barely passed. But I have made straight A’s in irony- that curse, that evasion, that armor, that way of staying safe while seeming wise. One thing I have learned hard, if indeed I have learned it now: it is a reduction of our humanity to hide from pain, our own or other’s. to hide from anything. That was Marian’s text. Be open, be available, be exposed, be skinless. Skinless? Dance around in your bones.
— Wallace Stegner, All the Little Live Things
Marian’s eyes absolutely blaze. To meet them is to have a shock of contact as if they were electrically charged. “Now you see? You wondered what was in whale’s milk. Don’t you know now? The same thing that’s in a mushroom spore so small you need a microscope to see it, or in gophers, or poison oak, or anything else we try to pave under or grub out, or poison. There isn’t good life and bad life, there’s only life. Think of the force down there, just telling things to get born!
— Wallace Stegner, All the Little Live Things
Isn’t it complicated to be human, though?” she said. “Animals seem to give up their lives so naturally…And after all, I grew up, I married John, I had Debby. So knowing, being able to understand and forecast and even predict an approximate date, shouldn’t make any difference. I guess consciousness makes individuals of us, and as individuals we lose the old acceptance…”	“The one thing,” Marian said in a voice that went suddenly small and tight, “the thing I can hardly bear sometimes is that I won’t ever see her grow up. She’ll have to do it without whatever I could have given her.”	“Time, too, time and everything that one could do in it, and the chance of wasting or losing or never even realizing it. It’s so important to us because we see it so close. We’re individuals, we’re full of ourselves, and so we’re bad historians. We get crazy and anxious because all of sudden there’s so little time left to be loving and generous as we wish we’d always been and always intended to be…do you suppose I feel the shortness of time because I want to experience everything and feel everything that the race has ever felt? Because there’s so much to feel and I’m greedy?
— Wallace Stegner, All the Little Live Things
A loving eye is all the charm needed: to such you are handsome enough
—  or rather your sterness has a power beyond beauty
...art had no moral responsibility. Art, he argued, should strive only to be a beautiful object entirely separate from its creator.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
When your heart is open, your eyes see the beauty that is all around you.
— A.D. Posey
We are artists. When we can’t find the beauty, we create it.
— A.D. Posey
She went looking for beauty but never looked inside herself.
— Mohamed Ghazi, Honest
Beauty is something I cannot seem to take as a given. It seems to lie too disadvantageously in the eyes of beholders.
— Rosalyn D’Mello
Breathe in the beauty all around you.
— A.D. Posey
Don’t give up! Remember, we love to be enchanted by flowers in bloom… but don’t forget that it took many rainy days to achieve such beauty. Your bloom is coming!
— Steve Maraboli
Time unfolds beauty, wonder, and mystery to reveal the auspicious tapestry of life.
— A.D. Posey
Beautiful things happen when you believe, just open your heart and your mind to conceive.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
With grace and beauty, feel.
— A.D. Posey
She was the most beautiful, terrible thing he'd ever seen, like an acetylene flame, an incandescent filament, a fallen star right in front of him.
— Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land
The beauty of a morning glory, is that of its patient wait for the sun to rise in the morning!
— Mary Kate
The beauty of a morning glory, is that of its patient wait for the sun to bloom in the morning!
— Mary Kate
When you take the high road you will see things that some people can't.
— Shannon L. Alder
Perfection is ordinary
—  imperfection is beauty.
It is true love that can activate the beauty and power of true genius.
— Debasish Mridha
Art is an expression of inner beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
To enjoy the beauty of life, live profoundly in the present moment without the fear of the past or future.
— Debasish Mridha
My thoughts and imaginations are little seeds. I want them to grow tall and strong like a tree. I plant them in the soil of paper and let them grow to shade and support the world with beauty, love, joy.
— Debasish Mridha
You will make the world a magnificent place with the magic of your kindness, beauty, peace, and happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
A wonderful person finds amazing beauty in everything and everyone.
— Debasish Mridha
Not the eyes, but the heart sees the beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
Until your last breath, you may not be able to see the true beauty of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Open the beauty of your heart and smile like a flower.
— Debasish Mridha
What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate’er we lose?And trust me, dear, good humour can prevail,When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail.Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul
— Alexander Pope
Philosophy, in its simplest form, is the exploration of the beauty and ugliness of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Those who love to live enjoy the beauty of life.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is a journey of a cell enjoying the beauty of this universe.
— Debasish Mridha
Beauty often depends on not how you look but on who you are.
— Debasish Mridha
A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life’s pure beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
The beauty you want to attract is the one you should become.
— Eric Onyango Otieno, Touring My Mind
A flower blooms to reveal her beauty just to express her gratitude for all the life, love, and light.
— Debasish Mridha
To enjoy the song of love and beauty, just get lost in the wonders of nature.
— Debasish Mridha
May the flowers of spring bring beauty and joy to your world everyday.
— Debasish Mridha
We have eyes to see beauty and a heart to love and appreciate it.
— Debasish Mridha
Believe that you are unique with infinite love and beauty in your soul.
— Debasish Mridha
To become truly beautiful, learn to see the beauty all around you.
— Debasish Mridha
Hope is like a bud that holds the hidden beauty of a flower.
— Debasish Mridha
You have magic in your heart. Unfold the magnificence of your magical beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
The beauty of life isn't the perfectioned moments or storybook endings; the beauty of life is when you fall flat on your face, the Lord picks you up, then you look around and cheer, after all, a merry heart is the medicine!
— Mary Kate
A beautiful woman is like a painting and remains beautiful no matter how old she is.
— Chloe Thurlow, Katie in Love
You are born to be magical, gorgeous and beautiful inside and out. So express your beauty and fear not.
— Debasish Mridha
On one part of the footpath where a thin trickle of water from a small spring kept it damp, I found … a swarm of … small, blue butterflies drinking the water. … I only went that way on sunny days and each time the dense, blue swarm was there, and each time it was a holiday.
— Hermann Hesse, Gertrude
Beauty in its simplest form doesn't need appraisal or constant change
—  it is viewed and valued with grace and honesty for what it is and criticizing it will only demean its value.
DESDEMONACome, how wouldst thou praise me? IAGO I am about it; but indeed my invention Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frieze; It plucks out brains and all: but my Muse labours, And thus she is deliver'd. If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit, The one's for use, the other useth it. DESDEMONA Well praised! How if she be black and witty? IAGO If she be black, and thereto have a wit, She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit. DESDEMONA Worse and worse. EMILIA How if fair and foolish? IAGO She never yet was foolish that was fair; For even her folly help'd her to an heir. DESDEMONA  These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i' the alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for her that's foul and foolish? IAGO There's none so foul and foolish thereunto, But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do.
— William Shakespeare, Othello
Magic is in simplicity. Simplicity is the ultimate expression of beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
The principle of any science is invisible, theoretical, as is our idea of Spirit. No one has seen God; no one has seen Life; what we have seen is the manifestation of Life. No one has seen Intelligence; we experience it. No one has ever seen Causation; we can see what It does, we deal with Its effects. We do not see Beauty. The artist feels beauty and depicts it as best he can, and the result of his effort is what we call the beautiful...We do not see Life, we experience living. Causation is invisible.
— Ernest Holmes, The Science of Mind
The beauty of a woman is not in her facial makeup but in the kindness of her soul.
— Debasish Mridha
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
— Paul Gauguin
Beauty is not in a woman’s face but in her soul.
— Debasish Mridha
So beautiful but so bountiful.So delicate but so fresh.So magical but so simple.So much to say but yet so silent.So loving and so pleasant.Oh, flowers of charming love,You are life’s joy and present.
— Debasish Mridha
Every new friend is a fresh flower with endless beauty, love, and joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.
— Rashida Jones
Let your life be a vivacious poetry of love, compassion, kindness, and beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
Beauty is in the reflection of your love that is always present in your heart.
— Debasish Mridha
The world is full of beauty; to find it, just look for it.
— Debasish Mridha
You are most beautiful when your heart is full of love and your mind is soft and kind.
— Debasish Mridha
Every woman is distinctly beautiful because every woman has a motherly instinct.
— Debasish Mridha
In the marketplace of ideas, a dime is expensive than the cost price of beauty
— Osho Samuel Adetunji
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She was proud of her build, which was in accordance with the old Botswana ideas of beauty, and she would not pander to the modern idea of slenderness. That was an importation from elsewhere, and it was simply wrong. How could a very thin woman do all the things that women needed to do: to carry children on their backs, to pound maize into flour out at the lands or the cattle post, to cart around the things of the household—the pots and pans and buckets of water? And how could a thin woman comfort a man? It would be very awkward for a man to share his bed with a person who was all angles and bone, whereas a traditionally built lady would be like an extra pillow on which a man coming home tired from his work might rest his weary head. To do all that you needed a bit of bulk, and thin people simply did not have that.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
Development in general doesn’t make you better employee or better manager. Development makes you a better human who is able to invest the best in you to add beauty and meaning to your life and the rest of the world.
— Sameh Elsayed
The more beauty you see, the more beautiful you become.
— Debasish Mridha
To see beauty, you have to love.
— Debasish Mridha
The beauty of life is in happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
Through the window of my soul and the mirror of my mind, I was looking for the beauty of my life. I could not find it, but I found it in the glint of a dew drop at the edge of a dancing leaf.
— Debasish Mridha
Life is a duty and an eternal journey in search of beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
I guess that sometimes it just takes a long walk through the darkness, a long walk through the darkest shadows and corners of your soul to realize that those are a part of you as well, that you've created through your experiences and thoughts those parts within yourself and as much as you can choose to fear them and repress them, they will require your attention one day, they will need your care and acceptance before you can clean them away and turn the lights on. For you refuse to shine the light on something that is imperfect, because you fear judgement and rejection, but you can always choose to look towards the light as the only source of true beauty and love that can help you in the cleaning process. Healing, after a long time of struggle and mess is a complex process, but a necessary one nevertheless. We are so overwhelmed by the amount of work it requires that we so often choose to run away from the light, hide in our dark corner and hope that we will never be found, hope that we will never be seen, or desperately look outwards for that love and compassion that we can no longer find within ourselves, for our soul's light no longer shines as it used to. And sometimes we just find those people that can see the light beneath all that dust and darkness that's been pilled up, those kind of light workers that understand our broken souls and manage to pick us up and see the beauty within us, when we find it so hard to see it ourselves. Sometimes I get so tired of separation, of division, of groups and different religions and belief systems. Even if you do find the truth, once you've put it into words, books and rules it already becomes distorted by the mind into something that is no longer truth. So I no longer hope for understanding, no longer hope for the opinion of a judgemental mind, but I hope to find the words that touch the soul before the mind, I hope to find the touch that warms the heart from deep inside, and hope to find that far away abandoned part of me which I've left behind.
— Virgil Kalyana Mittata Iordache
Things, and people, were always more beautiful when you were afraid to lose them.
— Martina Boone, Compulsion
People are like books. Eventually, the focus shifts from the cover to the story that cannot be read in one sitting.
— Kat Lehmann
Beauty is like the storm. Beauty has its natural motions. A calmness of spirit signals its arrival. Its departure is marked by misery.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word
... for fog was merely a cloud that wasn't too smitten with itself to visit terra firma.
— Jan Karon, Come Rain or Come Shine
....the perfect beauty of the pattern that each raindrop makes as it joins its puddle.
— Jay Woodman
I did my first nude scene--and my second and third--maybe my fourth all in one movie, thanks to Allison. Allison made me feel like I was a beautiful woman when I did those love scenes. When a man makes you feel beautiful, that's one thing. But when a woman makes you feel beautiful, she's talking about your insides, too.
— Illeana Douglas
That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated glimpses of beauty or kindness - any of the things that attached us to this world, that made us forget, even for a moment, its pain and its transience.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Novel Habits of Happiness
Beauty is discernible in your fleeting moments. When you talk; in a smile or a blink of your eye; beauty is discernible. I can feel it in the skin of your nape when I kiss it. You must know how to preserve it for a long time; I do not know how long that would be possible. Many things may change. Many new things may meet your eyes, allure you; you may be corrupted by them. Then? What will you do then? All that has made you beautiful will be gone…
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word
The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary, Ralph Waldo Emerson.
— Jennifer L. Scott, Polish Your Poise with Madame Chic: Lessons in Everyday Elegance
Quality depends on kindness. Beauty depends on simplicity. Joy depends on generosity.
— Debasish Mridha
Even the ugliest swan is still more beautiful than the loveliest crown on the fence, Anna thought
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
Let your mind be harmonious with nature
—  let it bloom with all of her beauty to find inner peace.
You need to characterize beauty by association.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word
Beauty is not static. You cannot point your finger at something and say there’s beauty. Like all natural things beauty comes and goes. You have to capture it in your heart. See if you can retain it long enough to give you happiness.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word
Focus on beauty to have a beautiful life.
— Debasish Mridha
We are always looking for beauty and forget that it is residing inside of our own hearts.
— Debasish Mridha
Focusing on the beauty of life is insight. Enjoying the beauty of life is happiness.
— Debasish Mridha
When I escape from my cage of conformity, I grow wings to fly in search of truth and beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
Act for the joy and beauty of action not for the fruits of creation.
— Debasish Mridha
To enjoy the beauty of life and the joy of your soul, serve, love, and give the best you can.
— Debasish Mridha
Breathtaking beauty is just over the barrier that you always fear.
— Debasish Mridha
Without harming anyone, how can I make this world more peaceful? How can I help others to fulfill their desires? How can I enhance and enrich the beauty and happiness for humanity?
— Debasish Mridha
Silence is the language of nature and beauty where perception and feelings are the only reality.
— Debasish Mridha
Imagination is a roller coaster ride in search of ideas and beauty into the wonderland of subconscious and conscious mind.
— Debasish Mridha
Mist lies over the river like the icy breath of winter angels. Darkness gathers round... and it is beautiful.Thank you for this life, this death, whatever it is you arethat makes us finally see.
— Jay Woodman
The Universe said, ‘Let me show your soul something beautiful.
— Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love
I love the arrival of a new season — each one bringing with it its own emotion: spring is full of hope; summer is freedom; autumn is a colourful release, and winter brings an enchanting peace. It's hard to pick which one I enjoy the most — each time the new one arrives, I remember its beauty and forget the previous one whose qualities have started to dim.
— Giovanna Fletcher, Christmas With Billy and Me
Even the ugliest person's cellulite is more attractive than the most beautiful supermodel's lower intestine.' I'd put that on a T-shirt but probably Mark Twain already said it.
— Jenny  Lawson, Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things
Nature already uses the language of mathematics, so why not work with the environment instead of against it. We need to start mimicking the mathematical logic that occurs in the landscape, identify existing systems, and out of those concepts create new ones.
— Yafreisy Carrero
There will be people who admire your strength and courage. But, there will also be those willing to knock everything you say and do. They think it goes unnoticed, but you have excellent peripheral vision. The trick is to never let them get the best of you. Don't become vulnerable to their deceptive nature. You were born to succeed.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.
— Esther Dalseno, Drown
It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy possessions seemed only fair to her evolving mind.
— Esther Dalseno, Drown
I asked them: Does it hurt? And the scar people nodded, yes. But it felt somehow wonderful, they said. For one long second, it felt like the world was holding them close.
— Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
Loving yourself is of vital importance. Because there is no way you'll love another soul if you fail to have self love. Embrace your beautiful spirit and shine light for those who may be living in the dark. You are human and your heart is designed to love and live. You can not be open to love if you're not loving yourself.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
I romanticized him until he was the perfect being. A soul so beautiful, but so immensely evil too.
— Dominic Riccitello
Female competition is when you are with a guy you like and you look around, see a girl who is prettier than you standing nearby, and think to yourself: "I wish she wasn't here." -This is what happens when you attach your identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention you receive.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
She was a beautiful girl, but the lack of any spark dampened her prettiness.
— Chelsea Cain, Heartsick
Why do You thus devise Evil against her?' 'For that She is beautiful, delicate; Therefore.
— Adelaide Crapsey, Verse by Adelaide Crapsey
The candy colored coral snake.The iridescent blue-ringed octopus.Décolletage.Beware of conspicuous beauty.Its venom can be deadly.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
The skies gave way to the full ascendence of morning and clouds skittered across the expanse, the variations on a nebulous theme woven on a celestial loom.
— Michelle Franklin, Recollection of Shared Days: Stories of Celebration
Beauty is a sense of harmony.
— Ayn Rand
Gretchen Lowell was beautiful in a very grown-up way, in a sophisticated, confident way. It was more than beauty; it was the power of beauty. She radiated it.
— Chelsea Cain, Heartsick
Beauty will save the world.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
All hardships are seeds of growth. Your life will blossom when the lesson is complete. But remember, you were ALWAYS beautiful from beginning to full bloom.
— Karen A. Baquiran
It is true that nothing here makes any sense, but this is no great misfortune; I learned from the islanders that sense is not of any particular importance, that its presence may even disrupt the clean lines of certain pictures and cast a cloud over their fine light, while laments on the absurdity of being struck me as self-indulgent and objectionable even before my stay on the island. Once you get a little used to a terrain cleansed of sense, you realize that there is amusement enough to be had here, and that only in its emptiness can the magic crystals of beauty originate. And in this space something is revealed: the silent dignity of people, animals, plants and objects, that is able to stir graciousness, compassion and reverence.
— Michal Ajvaz, The Golden Age
She is like a meteor shooting off by itself, traveling through space, knowing no bounds, who knows ehere eventually to come to ground, on another planet or back on our earth again, or to disappear in the infinity of nature.
— Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Bumi Manusia
...It’s the beauty of this world, that is so alive that if we see properly, we’d know that heaven is no different than our Planet Earth, which is cared by our Mother Nature. It’s so beautiful…
— Jayendra Puri Goswami, The Creator's Child
I loved your world, Noah. It was a magical place, where there were stars and love, and there was hope. Hope. I don’t think you know how it is not to have that. I stole some of yours. It was beautiful, but there were too many secrets between us, and I always knew I’d have to give it back.
— Debbie Howells, The Beauty of the End
Her eyes were springs from which ecstasy drew water.
— Yasmina Khadra, Cousine K
It's funny, isn't it," Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.
— Kate Atkinson, Life After Life
Beauty doesn't fade, it remains forever
— Raven San Jose
Honestly, I never really understood the glorification of Fridays & weekends. I don't want to build a life and career, where I spent five days a week waiting for the weekend. No! I want to enjoy my life, and don't wish any weekday away. I want each day to matter to me, in some way, even if it's a small tiny way. I love my life. Everyday. That's the spirit we should convey all around us.
— Akilnathan Logeswaran
Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression.
— Amit Ray, Beautify your Breath - Beautify your Life
She did not understand the beauty he found in her, through touch upon her living secret body, almost the ecstasy of beauty. For passion alone is awake to it. And when passion is dead, or absent, then the magnificent throb of beauty is incomprehensible and even a little despicable; warm, live beauty of contact, so much deeper than the beauty of vision.
— D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
Beautiful people make even those of us who proudly consider ourselves unmoved by another's appearance dumb with admiration and fear and delight, and struck by the profound, enervating awareness of how inadequate we are, how nothing, not intelligence or education or money, can usurp or overpower or deny beauty.
— Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees
In every aspect of life, be true to who you are. There is no need to communicate subliminally. If you believe in your words or actions, then express yourself completely. Live, Laugh, & Love without regrets.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Sweet Destiny
Beautiful moments in life need no words for description. Living those moments and feeling the beauty suffices.
— Mamur Mustapha
Because you’re beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.' A brief awkward silence ensued. Augustus plowed through: 'I mean, particularly given that, as you so deliciously pointed out, all of this will end in oblivion and everything.
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely-mingled elements, the beauty and the majesty which are compelled to assume a garb so sordid.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables
The beauty of friendship is loyalty.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
Your life is your canvas. You are responsible for the beauty of your art.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
The need for beauty and the [artistic] creation which embodies it is inseparable from man, and without it man would possibly not want to live in the world.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
When you're interested in somebody and you think they might be interested in you, you should point out all your beauty problems and defects right away, rather than take a chance they won't notice them.
— Alison Pace, If Andy Warhol Had a Girlfriend
He might not be here, but the day he misses an opportunity to party is the day Jocelyn Wildenstein is considered the paragon of beauty.
— Danielle Esplin, Give It Back
Being thin does not equal being happy. I promise you that. You want to lose weight, fine. But do it to be healthy, not because you want to look like the girl on the cover of some magazine.
— Jennifer Jabaley, Lipstick Apology
The beauty of truth is in its simplicity.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
Perfection is a ridiculous goal because there is no such thing. Real beauty is what you are inside.
— Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
Enjoy every beauty
—  love everyone.
If you look for beauty, you will find it.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
There was a product which seemed attractive, expensive, portable, beautiful and simple. Everybody talked about its beauty but they bought it for it's simplicity.
— Amit Kalantri
Enjoy the beauty, love and peace of a sacred Christmas.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Life is a one way journey. Don’t forget to enjoy the amazing beauty.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
What we strive for, ultimately, is love. You won't find real love because you're beautiful on the outside. It is drawn to inner beauty. Spend your energy crafting that, and you will know true love.
— Ellen Hopkins, Perfect
She walks in beauty.I am trampled by it.She swims in beauty.I drown in it.
— Khang Kijarro Nguyen
Susie: Doesn't it make you feel kind of awesome that the world is beautiful for no other apparent reason than that it is? Like beauty has its own secret reason. It doesn't need human eyes to notice. It just wants to be glorious and unbelievable.
— Martine Leavitt
If you do not have the strength to forgive,then compel themselves and continue in that, do not write bad words.For all that you write, is your own burden, you're gonna wear.So just write nice!
— Sanel Alić
We ought to live heaven on earth, clean environment, the beauty of blissful realms.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
...he was past youth, but had not reachedmiddle-age; perhaps he might be thirty-five. I felt no fear of him,and but little shyness. Had he been a handsome, heroic-lookingyoung gentleman, I should not have dared to stand thus questioninghim against his will, and offering my services unasked. I hadhardly ever seen a handsome youth; never in my life spoken to one.I had a theoretical reverence and homage for beauty, elegance,gallantry, fascination; but had I met those qualities incarnate inmasculine shape, I should have known instinctively that they neitherhad nor could have sympathy with anything in me, and should haveshunned them as one would fire, lightning, or anything else that isbright but antipathetic.
— Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
She was a tragic beauty. Sadness had left its fingerprints all over her face.
— John Mark Green
Rusted FlowersFrom her heart’stear-salted soil,rusted flowers grew.A serrated beauty;wounding all those who bent near.
— John Mark Green
I’m turned on by women who are comfortable in their own skin
—  and I’m turned off by those who are uncomfortable in their own shoes.
Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come," Tuek said. "Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool your sorrow–we’ve the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart–water, green grass, and the beauty of woman.
— Frank Herbert, Dune
If you don’t look at yourself, you can’t know yourself. If you don’t know your flaws, lumps and bumps then someone else can use them against you to make you feel inferior. I think you’re perfect just the way you are. I believe if you hide from who you are, you let everyone else define you instead of you. You are your power, embrace that and be beautiful.
— Ella December, Mimi Memoirs
Sometimes poetry is a way of finding beauty in the chaos
—  a flower growing in ruins of love's wreckage.
Smoke rose straight up from the chimney, as if the house raised its hand. As if the house knew the answer.
— Seré Prince Halverson, All the Winters After
The more I try to understand one very peculiar aspect of women, it seems clear to me that apart from the beauty or the sensuous state that women command over men, there is an interiority, lesser known to the masses which is more of agony and pain - a resultant effort of the continuous mood swings and the frequent natural cycles that buoy them, it is in this state that women function and calibrate on this basis in selecting their soul mate and not the usual histrionics that men take effort in pleasing them!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
It was Red Rock Canyon. One of the most beautiful places in Waterton... in the Rockies, for that matter. And it was there, waiting for him to find it. As long as he was willing to look for it.
— Danika Stone, Edge of Wild
The problem in this world is that we have poetry but insist on living in prose.
— J.M. Campos, The Wall And The Abyss
We are beings who seek the infinity of beauty over the finitude of time.
— J.M. Campos, The Wall And The Abyss
How can you find new beauty if you are never allowed to get out of conformity?
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
Breathtaking.That was the word, Liv decided, which had convinced her to wear the ludicrous outfit, because no one - not the one, solitary boyfriend she'd had during high school, or the leering frat boys she avoided at college parties - had ever spoken to her with such reverence. And with Xander beaming down at her, she did feel beautiful.
— Danika Stone, All the Feels
She lifted her head in surprise, following his line of sight above the tree line. Beyond the distant peaks, a green and blue symphony of lights had begun. It rippled and shimmered like sunshine on water, leaving Rich blinking back tears. He'd read something about this but had never seen it before.“It's the aurora borealis,” Lou said quietly. “Northern lights.
— Danika Stone, Edge of Wild
I may tell you it is not a small token that a woman loveth when she giveth unto her lover her beauty, which is so precious a matter; and by the ways that be a passage to the soul (that is to say, the sight and the hearing) sendeth the looks of her eyes, the image of her countenance, and the voice of her words, that pierce into the lover's heart and give a witness of her love.
— Thomas Hoby, The Book of the Courtier
There be also many wicked men that have the comeliness of a beautiful countenance, and it seemeth that nature hath so shaped them because they may be the readier to deceive, and that this amiable look were like a bait that covereth the hook.
— Thomas Hoby, The Book of the Courtier
Ah, fairest maiden, thine beauty doth maketh mine loins stir, and mine cup runneth over.
— Wayne Gerard Trotman, Kaya Abaniah and the Father of the Forest
Man only has eyes to beauty when it costs them the inevitability of losing.
— J.M. Campos, The Wall And The Abyss
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and mine were alight with her.
— Molly Looby, Chancing the Truth
I am a practical person. Always believed in multi purpose tools, good education and limited conversations .... and then I saw her!
— Soban Arif
loneliness gives you opportunity to look the beauty of out of window
— Arya vidhan
if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or colors or any other great nonsense of mortality, but if he could see the divine Beauty itself in its one form? Do you think it would be a poor life for a human being to look there and to behold it by that which he ought, and to be with it? Or haven't you remembered that in that life alone, when he looks at Beauty in the only way what Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth no to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images) but to true virtue (because he is in touch with the true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given birth to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
— Plato, The Symposium
I am not a teacher. I can only inspire you and show you how to unfold your own beauty.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
I did it because you are a beautiful, desirable woman, and a long time ago, someone made you think you weren’t. I’m not saying a few lessons from me can undo everything, but I want you to see a little bit of what I see when I look at you.
— Elizabeth Harmon, Turning It On
Music reveals the deepest beauty of the soul.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
To make life beautiful--every time you think--think about the amazing beauty of life.
— Debasish Mridha M.D.
I am happy to experience beauty of each season; spring time, summer, autumn and winter.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.
— Criss Jami, Healology
Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
— Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath
my beauty, flower by flower, star by star,wave by wave, love, I have counted your body.
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
My ugly one, I love you for your waist of gold,my beauty, I love you because of a wrinkle on your forehead,love, I love you because you are clear and dark.
— Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
And what is that thing which you promise to provide?- 'The beauty of the soul and the simplicity of happiness', he replied.
— Aporva Kala, Alchemist of the East
His pupils dilate when he sees me. His lips part as he momentarily forgets to marshal his expression, and I could swear he stops breathing for several heartbeats.
— Susan Ee, Angelfall
Art is a culmination of all that one stands for
— Aporva Kala, Alchemist of the East
Not “Revelation” – tis – that waitsBut our unfurnished eyes –
— Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Luckily Shasta had lived all his life too far south in Calormen to have heard the tales that were whispered in Tashbaan about a dreadful Narnian demon that appeared in the form of a lion. And of course he knew none of the true stories about Aslan, the great Lion, the son of the Emperor-beyond-the-Sea, the HIgh King above all high kings in Narnia. But after one glance at the Lion's face he slipped out of the saddle and fell at its feet. He couldn't say anything but then he didn't want to say anything, and he knew he needn't say anything.The High King above all kings stooped towards him. Its mane, and some strange and solemn perfume that hung about the mane, was all round him. It touched his forehead with its tongue. He lifted his face and their eyes met. Then instantly the pale brightness of the mist and fiery brightness of the Lion rolled themselves together into a swirling glory and gathered themselves up and disappeared. He was alone with the horse on a grassy hillside under a blue sky. And there were birds singing.
— C.S. Lewis, The Horse and His Boy
The wind and the grass and something in the sky, sun, or moon, shining on our backs as we run: They are gifts that humans toss away like socks on Christmas morning, because we see them every day and don't think of them as gifts anymore. But new socks are always better than old socks. And the wind and grass and sky, I think, are better seen with new eyes than jaded ones. I hope my eyes will never grow old.
— Kevin Hearne, Hunted
True love isn't about being perfect. It's about seeing each other's imperfections as beauty.
— Cori Garrison
Some beauty is fleeting, some lasts a lifetime.
— Holly Martin, Snowflakes on Silver Cove
I do not know who God is; but I have witnessed the Healing Power of Love, the Beauty of Nature, and the Wisdom of my Soul. If God can be understood in those terms, then don't you think, we all have already found the truth? I feel humanity needs to Stop Searching and Start Living the Truth. Manprit Kaur
— Manprit Kaur
On hearing of the interesting events which have happened in the course of a man's experience, many people will wish that similar things had happened in their lives too, completely forgetting that they should be envious rather of the mental aptitude which lent those events the significance they possess when he describes them ; to a man of genius they were interesting adventures; but to the dull perceptions of an ordinary individual they would have been stale, everyday occurrences.This is, in the highest degree, the case with many of Goethe's and Byron's poems, which are obviously founded upon actual facts; where it is open to a foolish reader to envy the poet because so many delightful things happened to him, instead of envying that mighty power of fantasy which was capable of turning a fairly common experience into something so great and beautiful.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life, and Other Essays
Beauty is the expression of passion of life.
— Debasish Mridha
The more I try to understand one very peculiar aspect of women, it seems clear to me that apart from the beauty or the sensuous state that women command over men, there is an inferiority, lesser known to the masses which is more of agony and pain - a resultant effort of the continuous mood swings and the frequent natural cycles that buoy them, it is in this state that women function and calibrate on this basis in selecting a life partner and not the usual histrionics that men take effort in pleasing them!
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Love is the beauty, the flower, the fragrance, and the attractive force of our soul.
— Debasish Mridha
Fill yourself with beauty to overflowing.
— Debasish Mridha
Always find the opportunity to express and enjoy the beauty of love.
— Debasish Mridha
He was neither rich nor great, young nor handsome, - in no respect what is called fascinating, imposing or brilliant; and yet he was as attractive as a genial fire, and people seemed to gather about him as naturally as about a warm hearth.
— Louisa May Alcott
To be magnificent, attract beauty like a magnet.
— Debasish Mridha
I shall eat anyone who tries to steal my singing, springing lark!
— Jacob Grimm, The Singing, Springing Lark
Calliope was never still. Even when she was seemingly motionless, he could see her mind at work, sorting ideas, seeking solutions, cataloging the space around her. To see her beauty, one had to see her in motion.
— Jim Butcher, The Aeronaut's Windlass
You are beautiful! Like the dew on rose petals, your beauty glistens and shines. Like the raindrops on eyelids, your beauty, forever defined. For those that can see you, they find beauty so rare. For those that receive you, find love in your care. Forever beautiful, Yes you are. You are beautiful!
— Lorna Jackie Wilson, Black Butterfly: The Journey - The Victory
That’s the beauty of magic. You can get it no matter how rich or poor you are.
— T.K. Kiser, The Firebrand Legacy
When she turned I could see her face was plain and outwardly unremarkable, yet possessing of a bearing that showed inner strength and resolve. I stared at her intently with a mixture of feelings. I had realised not long ago that I was no beauty, and even at the age of nine had seen how the more attractive children gained favour more easily. But here in that young woman I could see how those principles could be inverted. I felt myself stand more upright and clench my jaw in subconscious mimicry of her pose
— Jasper Fforde
Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
A kind of northing is what I wish to accomplish, a single-minded trek towards that place where any shutter left open to the zenith at night will record the wheeling of all the sky’s stars as a pattern of perfect, concentric circles. I seek a reduction, a shedding, a sloughing off.	At the seashore you often see a shell, or fragment of a shell, that sharp sands and surf have thinned to a wisp. There is no way you can tell what kind of shell it had been, what creature it had housed; it could have been a whelk or a scallop, a cowrie, limpet, or conch. The animal is long since dissolved, and its blood spread and thinned in the general sea. All you hold in your hand is a cool shred of shell, an inch long, pared so thin that it passes a faint pink light. It is an essence, a smooth condensation of the air, a curve. I long for the North where unimpeded winds would hone me to such a pure slip of bone. But I’ll not go northing this year. I’ll stalk that floating pole and frigid air by waiting here. I wait on bridges; I wait, struck, on forest paths and meadow’s fringes, hilltops and banksides, day in and day out, and I receive a southing as a gift. The North washes down the mountains like a waterfall, like a tidal wave, and pours across the valley; it comes to me. It sweetens the persimmons and numbs the last of the crickets and hornets; it fans the flames of the forest maples, bows the meadow’s seeded grasses and pokes it chilling fingers under the leaf litter, thrusting the springtails and the earthworms deeper into the earth. The sun heaves to the south by day, and at night wild Orion emerges looming like the Specter over Dead Man Mountain. Something is already here, and more is coming.
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering, and like the ancient mariner, fix him with a wild, glitt’ring eye and say, “Do you know that in the head of the caterpillar of the ordinary goat moth there are two hundred twenty-eight separate muscles?” The poor wretch flees. I am not making chatter; I mean to change his life.
— Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek