Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.
Copy Quote View & ShareStrength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
Copy Quote View & ShareCats are the runes of beauty, invincibility, wonder, pride, freedom, coldness, self-sufficiency, and dainty individuality - the qualities of sensitive, enlightened, mentally developed, pagan, cynical, poetic, philosophic, dispassionate, reserved, independent, Nietzschean, unbroken, civilised, master-class men.
Copy Quote View & ShareI write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
Copy Quote View & ShareBeauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
Copy Quote View & ShareJordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.
Copy Quote View & ShareA lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
Copy Quote View & ShareArt is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou have to embrace your body, whether it's curvy or whatever you may be. You have to embrace who you are. Beauty comes from the inside not out.
Copy Quote View & SharePersonality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere's a lot of beauty in the world, so go hang out and go be a part of the solution rather than the problem.
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