For you need imagination to form a notion of beauty at all, and still more to discover your ideal in an unfamiliar shape.

The trees at Cloudwalk have been my friends for forty years. I'm sure if I were sawed in half, our rings would match.

Your kindness, beauty, and simplicity remind me the stories about angels, and I was told they are just legends and myths.

I firmly believe that everyone deserves to live within walking distance of either beauty or convenience, if not both. (48)

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the quest for perfection.

Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

Without a little chaos life will be dull, unbeautiful, for we have been trained not to align with simplicity for too long.

It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power, the same way money is power, the same way a gun is power.

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Beauty was worthIts every sorrow, mind's fading or World's ending,As darkness covered the garden that is the earth.

We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

She had once been described, by one who saw below the surface, as a perfectly beautiful woman in an absolutely plain shell.

And yet even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.