There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

He who does not mind his belly, will hardly mind anything else.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

The first wealth is health.

‚Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

When you go to an oasis, you go there to supply yourself with the vital things you are missing, things that you need.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

If I forget to pray, I can’t get through the day without snapping at people.

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

Temptation is just the feeling that you’re the most independent person on planet Earth. That you know everything. That’s something that we all go through as a kid. Now, this lifestyle that I’m in, the same thing exists! But it’s 10 times worse, because everything is at my disposal. When you’re in the limelight, you can get anything you want.

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.

I don’t know that much about who directs what movies, but I’m definitely inspired by the look of old movies; I find them to be really beautiful.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I’ve kept that mentality. Just because there’s a hurricane going on around you doesn’t mean you have to open the window and look at it.

I think it speaks of all women having those few special things that make them feel feminine. And so when I was a little girl, I would associate Guerlain with that.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you’re waiting for the elevator – instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Girls are soft and pretty.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

It’s physical. If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

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.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they’re still beautiful.

The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

I feel exhausted if I teach too long.

There’s no substitute for the practice of meditation.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

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.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

I used to let other people’s struggles affect my happiness. If they weren’t happy, there was no way I was going to be happy. The opposite was also true: If I wasn’t happy, I didn’t want anyone around me to be happy.

I don’t think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that’s unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you’re not healthy.

The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don’t know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left.

In the morning, I practice 15 minutes of yoga.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see 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.

It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

I think women want to take care of themselves, and I think having a voice in how that is done is very important.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.

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