In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don’t accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
For all of nature’s wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty… in every form.
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.
The history of soccer is a sad voyage from beauty to duty. When the sport became an industry, the beauty that blossoms from the joy of play got torn out by its very roots.
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
It’s good to have a reminder that we can love ourselves and be beautiful even though we don’t really fit into certain standards of what beauty may be.
The biggest beauty myth is that everyone looks better without makeup. That’s not true. Makeup is important.
I just want to say to women, ‘Be yourself – it’s the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that – and it takes a few heartbreaks – you can be happy.’
Oh, I think Canadians look like all sorts of people. That’s the beauty of Canada.
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don’t care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
Baalbek is so beautiful. It is the heart of beauty in the Middle East – I want to embrace these people with my music. I will try so hard for them. Their president is a Christian, their prime minister is a Muslim. Music is for everyone.
Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.
My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
For me, beauty comes from natural happiness. I think that a woman glows, and a man, even, when they’re healthy and they’re happy.
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what’s really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
I had a lot of resentment for a while toward Kim Novak. But I don’t mind her anymore. She’s okay. We’ve become friends. I even asked her before this trip for some beauty tips.
I have been honoured to serve the whales, dolphins, seals – and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence, strength, and spirit have inspired me.
