If we analyze the operations of scenes of beauty upon the mind, and consider the intimate relation of the mind upon the nervous system and the whole physical economy, the action and reaction which constantly occur between bodily and mental conditions, the reinvigoration which results from such scenes is readily comprehended. . . . The enjoyment of scenery employs the mind without fatigue and yet exercises it; tranquilizes it and yet enlivens it; and thus, through the influence of the mind over the body gives the effect of refreshing rest and reinvigoration to the whole system.
Tell me, can you see beauty? Can you let it renew your commitment to life, every day? I don't want to wait for death to be near to receive the beauty in my life. I want to be awed every day by the truth-pretty or painful-and let it open me to the beauty that surrounds me and draws me deeper and deeper into my own life.
I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.
Art must be an expression of love or it is nothing.
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike.
Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. To see it a person only needs to imagine how it could be worse.
We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity
Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love.
When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.
. . . each with its own beauty, and each with a story to tell.
It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.
Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.
Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.
We have to nurture our young women and understand the beauty and the strength of being a woman. It's kind of a catch-22: Strength in women isn't appreciated, and vulnerability in women isn't appreciated. It's like, 'What the hell do you do?' What you do is you don't allow anyone to dictate who you are.
To me, beauty is a lived thing.
There can be no excess to love, none to knowledge, none to beauty.
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.
[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed.