Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

God doesn’t love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face.

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it.

I don’t think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one.

The good is the beautiful.

Especially when you’re at a high level in an organization, criticism can be devastating to an employee. I prefer to praise employees for what they’re doing right, and it tends to lead to them doing more of the same. Not always, but it’s the way I choose to bet.

Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly, which is done in pride.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

I believe that the greatest form of prayer is praise to God.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

Black Americans, no more than white Americans, they do not want more government programs which perpetuate dependency. They don’t want to be a colony in a nation.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle’s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance… and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

What can everyone do? Praise and blame. This is human virtue, this is human madness.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

What is true belongs to me!

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

When one does away with oneself one does the most estimable thing possible: one thereby almost deserves to live.

It’s nice to be included in people’s fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

What really matters is how God sees me. He isn’t concerned with labels; he is concerned about the state of man’s soul.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I’m not embarrassed to explore that in a film. But there are things you get offered that are vulgar and violent – just like there’s a side of me that’s vulgar and violent.

I always thought it was wrong for me to take credit for the work that I did. I don’t think that anymore.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

I tell you the groans of the damned in hell are the deep bass of the universal anthem of praise that shall ascend to the throne of my God for ever and ever.