Beauty Quote by Plotinus

Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy…

— Plotinus

Wrap thyself in the decent veil that the arts or the graces weave for thee, O human nature! It is only the statue of…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge…

— Swami Vivekananda

Prepare now for the temple, the mountain of the Lord. Never allow the goal of the temple to be out of your sight. Walk…

— Elaine S. Dalton

Beautify your tongues, O people, with truthfulness, and adorn your souls with the ornament of honesty. Beware, O people, that ye deal not treacherously…

— Bahá'u'lláh

The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer be defined…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion.

— Swami Vivekananda

“My dear Lordships! What is the use of constructing hundreds and thousands of pompously opulent temples, worshiping thousands and millions of grandiosely ornamented Deities,…

— Aindra Das

I want to shine like a little candle before His altar.

— Therese of Lisieux

Conviction brings a silent, indefinable beauty into faces made of the commonest human clay; the devout worshiper at any shrine reflects something of its…

— Honore de Balzac

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding-place and let it be free and unashamed. Place in matter…

— William Saroyan

“Been thinking of my grandfather, whose wayward brilliance skipped my father’s generation. Once, he showed me an aquatint of a certain Siamese temple. Don’t…

— David Mitchell