Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is ‚not complex or complicated; sincere.‘

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It’s always sexy, and it’s always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

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

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

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

I really concentrate on what’s on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Simplify, simplify.

Elegance is refusal.

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.

People say I look so happy – and I say, ‚That’s the Botox.‘

The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

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

All truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?

I am growing handsome very fast indeed! I expect I shall be the belle of Amherst when I reach my 17th year. I don’t doubt that I shall have perfect crowds of admirers at that age. Then how I shall delight to make them await my bidding, and with what delight shall I witness their suspense while I make my final decision.

The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

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

You don’t need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

There are so many emotions that you’re feeling, you can get stifled by them if you’re feeling them all at once. What I try to do is take one moment – one simple, simple feeling – and expand it into three-and-a-half minutes.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

The waving of a pine tree on the top of a mountain – a magic wand in Nature’s hand – every devout mountaineer knows its power; but the marvelous beauty value of what the Scotch call a breckan in a still dell, what poet has sung this?

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Dissident intellectuals aren’t all beautiful.

In T20, you don’t have time to get distracted – it’s so quick, you have to run around in the field, and while batting, you don’t actually think about anything else.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

Sometimes I try to just sit at home and do something calmer and simpler and just be in my life. You know, not trying to solve a lot of things at once.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

I have often said that the lure of flying is the lure of beauty.

I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.

Beautiful sentences pop into my head. Beautiful sentences that aren’t always absolutely accurate. Then, I have to choose between the beautiful sentence and being absolutely accurate. It can be a difficult choice.