#beauty

"It is with this movement, with the passage and dissolution of impressions, images, sensations, that analysis leaves off—that continual vanishing away, that strange, perpetual weaving and unweaving of ourselves."

"The winds, the sea, and the moving tides are what they are. If there is wonder and beauty and majesty in them, science will discover these qualities... If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry."

"Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings."

"There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others."

"Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds."

"I fall in love with you four times a year: winter, spring, summer, and fall. The leaves may change, but how I feel about you does not."

"As if you were on fire from within.The moon lives in the lining of your skin."

"Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty."

"Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are."

"Always expect that something beautiful and wonderful will happen to fill life with beauty."

"One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them."

"The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone."

"Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention."

"There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart."

"We are often taught to look for the beauty in all things, so in finding it, the layman asks the philosopher while the philosopher asks the photographer."

"People are craving this great progress in electronics, going after computers, the Internet, etc. It's a giant progress technologically. But they must have a balance of soul, a balance for human beauty. That means art has an important role."

"A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive."

"Is beauty enhanced or adulterated by utility?"

"You are the beloved conscious reflection of this universe. You are here to enjoy the beauty and joy of life."

"He touched my soul long before I knew what his hands felt like."