A naked woman’s body is a biological fact. A woman dressed to seduce is an inhabited beauty, a promise of pleasure, a flame from Heaven.
Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt.
Book: Slaughterhouse Five
But it seems to me that most of the human beings whose lives have stirred us and whom we admire are people who dedicated themselves not to the elementary pleasures, but to something noble, something fine, something that reaches beyond. Some encounter with necessity is the ground of taking one’s life seriously. It’s the ground of being sensitive to all of the really beautiful things in the world. It’s the ground of being open to the call of something higher in which we have a chance to participate, whether it be perpetuation of our young, whether it be the future of our country, whether it be the arts or philosophy or music. And it’s the ground, really, of transforming what is otherwise a mere necessity into an occasion of something really splendidly human.
A reg exp is a thing of beauty but it is not a joy forever. Instead, it makes my head hurt.
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
And lo, the beast looked upon the face of beauty, and beauty stayed his hand. And from that day forward, he was as one dead.
Movie: King Kong
There’s too much beauty to quit.
Movie: Stay
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Book: “The Sense of Wonder” by Rachel Carson
The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful.
All seasons are beautiful for the person who carries happiness within.
What a feeling of release it gives one… in knowing that there really can be a thing in the world as free and fearless action. Something irradiated with spontaneous beauty.
Play: Hedda Gabler, Act Four
There is unexpected beauty hidden everywhere in this world — one just has to be open to seeing it. Remember that the next time you sneeze on your monitor.
Those cosmetic drugs, she said, those mood equalizers and antidepressants, they only treat the symptoms of the bigger problem. Every addiction, she said, was just a way to treat this same problem. Drugs or overeating or alcohol or sex, it was all just another way to find peace. To escape what we know. Our education. Our bite of the apple. Language, she said, was just our way to explain away the wonder and the glory of the world. To deconstruct. To dismiss. She said people can’t deal with how beautiful the world really is. How it can’t be explained and understood.
Book: “Choke” by Chuck Palahniuk, pgs 150-151
No eyes that have seen beauty ever loses their sight.
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don’t need to know about men. It’s the men who have to know about beautiful women.
Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it is refused.
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Love, I love you. I want to give you the mountains, the sunshine, the sunset too. I want to give you everything as beautiful as you are to me.
You are so beautiful that I have to close my eyes to fully see you.
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.
Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all of our lives.
A beautiful thing is never perfect.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air—explode softly—and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn’t go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.
The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order, symmetry, and limitation; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful.
Book: “Metaphysica” by Aristotle
For me the thrill comes from innovating within a basic design and making something that beautifully performs its purpose.
Cherish your vision; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes from your purest thought. If you remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
A beautiful mind can create the illusion of a beautiful body but a beautiful body cannot create the illusion of a beautiful mind.
One person may look out onto a beautiful view and not feel or register much of anything, while another will be awed and overwhelmed by its beauty. We may experience deep pleasure and a profound communication while in conversation with someone because of what is spoken, or we may forget in an instant that we ever spent a moment together because nothing significant occurred. It is all a product of our mind!
Book: “Numbers: The Master Key” by Clayne Conings
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.
That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.
Jonathan held in thought an image of the great gull-flocks on the shore of another time, and he knew with practiced ease that he was not bone and feather…but a perfect idea of freedom and flight, limited by nothing at all.
Book: “Johnathan Livingston Seagull”
One minute was enough, Tyler said, a person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
Book: “Fight Club” by Chuck Palahniuk, pg 33
She laughed; the softest, gentlest laugh he’d ever heard. “Did you ever wonder what it would be like to go swimming out among the stars?”
Book: “Myst: The Book of Atrus”
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.
The sense of beauty is a tuning fork in the brain that hums when we stumble on something beautiful.
This—this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl’s voice…a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
It was an exquisite day. It was one of those days so clear, so still, so silent, you almost feel the earth itself has stopped in astonishment at its own beauty.
Every man has a different idea of what’s beautiful, and it’s best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree.