#at

...the monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas - angry, I knew his riddle - beauty is what is pleasing to the eye - he wasn't... ↗

— John Geddes

#beatings #monk #priest #spirit #beauty

Beauty derives from truth not perfection. ↗

— Thomas Davis Jr.

#beauty

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is arts aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. ↗

— Wilde

#literature #preface #art

Deserts look beautiful and green fields look beautiful too. Nature is genius because it knows how to look beautiful in every way. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty

The second gift is Beauty. May your deeds reflect its depth. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#blessing #character-building #inner-beauty #inspiration #beauty

The world was made by God's Word...make your own world with your words. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#creation #creator #higherlife #loveworld #risk-it-be-dfferent

I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone in a big city. It made me feel like the universe was hugely generous, and that my species was so damn smart to have constructed such a beautiful city. ↗

— Kate Klise

#in-the-bag #kate-klise #travel #beauty

Be who you are because that's you and you are beautiful. ↗

— Jada Berglund

#feel-good #inspirational #special #beauty

...listening with absorbed attention more to her voice than to what she was saying, and thinking how like she was, flowering through her voice into beauty in the darkness, to some butterflies he had come across in the Swiss mountains the summer before. When they were folded up they were grey, mothlike creatures that one might easily overlook, but directly they opened their wings they became the loveliest things in the world, all rose-colour or heavenly blue. So had she been to him in the daylight that afternoon,--an ordinary woman, not in any way noticeable; but now listen to her, opening into beauty on the wings of her voice! ↗

— Elizabeth von Arnim

#butterflies #hidden-beauty #voice #beauty

Death is the only thing keeping us in line. ↗

— Drew Magary

#death