Though nature is constantly beautiful, she does not exhibit her highest powers of beauty constantly, for then they would satiate us and… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“I've been thinking a lot about what Hobie said: about those images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
Marriage is tough, because it is woven of all these various elements, the weak and the strong. "In love-ness" is fragile for… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The family we're born into is important, sure, but they're not all we have. They're not all we are. A part of… — J.M. Darhower Copy Share Image
Nothing is really typical of my efforts... I'm simply casting about for better ways to crystallise and capture certain strong impressions (involving… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Finding beauty in a broken world is acknowledging that beauty leads us to our deepest and highest selves. It inspires us. We… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in… — Frans Lanting Copy Share Image
I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense.… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into a tender and subtle offering, what is… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
What beauty. I saw clouds and their light shadows on the distant dear earth…. The water looked like darkish, slightly gleaming spots….… — Yuri Gagarin Copy Share Image
It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. How the artist captured the light, the details of my mother's dimples, the… — Ellen Schreiber Copy Share Image
Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Somewhere, deep within me, beyond the passion, beyond the beauty of the night, that little spark of Daily magic ignited in me… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
Fuck drugs,I'm addicted to you. Fuck money, you're worth more. Fuck the fridge, you're cooler. Fuck diamonds, you're more beautiful. Fuck the… — Amanda Copy Share Image
“I am enslaved to you and your bewitching beauty my love. I tried to run away, to deny it. But I couldn't… — Pamela Ann Copy Share Image
As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“When art as an expression starts to appear, without prompting, all over the suburbs and villages of this country, what we are… — Binyavanga Wainaina Copy Share Image
The difference between a home run and a swing-and-a-miss is, what, an inch and a half? You can throw a great pitch,… — Phil Humber Copy Share Image
“Is your wife the devil? That is the reason the bible says we should cast out devil. Is your husband the devil?… — Patience Johnson Copy Share Image
All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Very early on in this journey, I uniquely found not just an aesthetic, but also a voice. I found the ability to… — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Uneasy Rider" Falling in love with a mustache is like saying you can fall in love with the way a man polishes… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection; and each… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I have not tired of the wilderness; rather I enjoy its beauty and the vagrant life I lead, more keenly all the… — Everett Ruess Copy Share Image
“You may not have noticed, but I’m not what you’d call conventionally beautiful. In fact, you might say that I’m the opposite… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Outside, a dog sprawls among the empty tables, its body rocking with the evening heat. Someone has given it a hamburger which… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
“On the scheme of this barbarous philosophy,” Burke wrote in the Reflections, “which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings,… — Yuval Levin Copy Share Image
“Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
“If your spirit is not fit to see the Simurgh, neither will your heart be a bright mirror, fit to reflect him.… — Farid ud-Din Attar Copy Share Image
Realism to be effective must be a matter of selection.genius chooses its materials with a view to their beauty and effectiveness; mere… — Julia Marlowe Copy Share Image
“I believe how you looked was supposed to mean, something graver, more substantial: I'd gaze at my poor face and think, "It's… — C.K. Williams Copy Share Image
“For a brief while, the women ask us questions: are we looking forward to our debuts? Did we enjoy this opera or… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer… — William Cullen Bryant Copy Share Image
A part of me looks at life from a dismal perspective, not unlike Woody Allen and Larry David. But I don't want… — Corbin Bernsen Copy Share Image
The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
“Most days I live awed by the world we have still, rather than mourning the worlds we have lost. The bandit mask… — Paul Bogard Copy Share Image
There are truths, that are beyond us, transcendent truths, about beauty, truth, honor, etc. There are truths that man knows exist, but… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Choosing beauty over content (or choosing beauty as content) is always an act of sedition. If we accept the cant of official… — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
“He called you beautiful, for a black girl and you kissed him. It would not be the last time someone would pay… — Rafeif Ismail Copy Share Image
