- “I sit in meditation…and soon all sounds, and all one sees and feels, take on imminence, an immanence, as if the Universe were coming to attention, a Universe of which one is the center, a Universe that is not the same yet not different from oneself: within man as within mountains there are many parts of hydrogen and oxygen, of calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and other elements. ‘You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flows in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars…’(Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditation)The secret of the mountains is that the mountains simply exist, as I do myself: the mountains exist simply, which I do not. The mountains have no ‘meaning,’ they are meaning; the mountains are. The sun is round. I ring with life, and the mountains ring, and when I can hear it, there is a ringing that we share.” ― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
- “Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Culture, Behavior, Beauty, Books, Art, Eloquence, Power, Wealth, Illusions
- “I know I’m not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I’ll be forever in your heart. ” ― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading
- “All the evil in the world comes from us bothering with each other,Wanting to do good, wanting to do evil.Our soul and the sky and the earth are enough for us.To want more is to lose this, and be unhappy.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Keeper of Sheep
- “There is no shortage of beautiful people in this world. What use is your beauty to me? Your beautiful hair, your beautiful eyes and legs? I will only speak of your beauty if your beautiful soul shines light on it, for I am blind to that other beauty. What use is your hair, eyes, and legs to me when I am the seeking the light within.” ― Kamand Kojouri
- “My heart is here reclaimed from clay and sculpted to hold the stars.” ― Ian William L.
- “[Letter to his wife, Natalia Sedova]In addition to the happiness of being a fighter for the cause of socialism, fate gave me the happiness of being her husband. During the almost forty years of our life together she remained an inexhaustible source of love, magnanimity, and tenderness. She underwent great sufferings, especially in the last period of our lives. But I find some comfort in the fact that she also knew days of happiness.For forty-three years of my conscious life I have remained a revolutionist; for forty-two of them I have fought under the banner of Marxism. If I had to begin all over again I would of course try to avoid this or that mistake, but the main course of my life would remain unchanged. I shall die a proletarian revolutionist, a Marxist, a dialectical materialist, and, consequently, an irreconcilable atheist. My faith in the communist future of mankind is not less ardent, indeed it is firmer today, than it was in the days of my youth.Natasha has just come up to the window from the courtyard and opened it wider so that the air may enter more freely into my room. I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue sky above the wall, and sunlight everywhere. Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence, and enjoy it to the full.” ― Leon Trotsky
- “You have lost your reason and taken the wrong path. You have taken lies for truth, and hideousness for beauty. You would marvel if, owing to strange events of some sorts, frogs and lizards suddenly grew on apple and orange trees instead of fruit, or if roses began to smell like a sweating horse; so I marvel at you who exchange heaven for earth. I don’t want to understand you.” ― Anton Chekhov
- “i’d rather be beautiful on thee inside where it is never seen by the world but always seen by the one true living God” ― Samone Sherrell
- “God has given fruits so that we can satisfy hunger. Similarly, He has given flowers so that they can be used if necessary. Just as the fruits are beautiful in the tree and also in the basket, likewise, the flowers are beautiful in the tree and also in the lover or beloved’s hands. I humbly disagree with those who say that flowers adorn only the trees. As leaving the fruits in the tree will destroy them, equally, if the flowers are not used, they will be pointlessly wasted!” ― Md. Ziaul Haque
- “Between the dark, heavily laden treetops of the spreading chestnut trees could be seen the dark blue of the sky, full of stars, all solemn and golden, which extended their radiance unconcernedly into the distance. That was the nature of the stars. and the trees bore their buds and blossoms and scars for everyone to see, and whether it signified pleasure or pain, they accepted the strong will to live. flies that lived only for a day swarmed toward their death. every life had its radiance and beauty. i had insight into it all for a moment, understood it and found it good, and also found my life and sorrows good.” ― Hermann Hesse
- “Unlike beauty and loveliness that fades with the passing of time, nothing and no one can ever take our wisdom and inner strength away from us.” ― Dipa Sanatani, The Little Light
- “we met one strange summerin a regular tangle of sticky websyou had the air of angels sweet but I–drowned with the damned spiritsin lava oceans fearing your–foreign static frequency and grey-green eyes(I swear they are even if you–think otherwise): stormscalm ones, calmer than my–raging coals, empty and deadyou speak of souls like you believealways an optimist in pessimisticskin of ivory and titanium mesh…” ― Moonshine Noire
- “Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.” ― Allen Ginsberg
- “He smiled his shy smile at her as he went into the yard. Anne took the memory of it with her when she went to her room that night and sat for a long while at her open window, thinking of the past and dreaming of the future. Outside the Snow Queen was mistily white in the moonshine; the frogs were singing in the marsh beyond Orchard Slope. Anne always remembered the silvery, peaceful beauty and fragrant calm of that night. It was the last night before sorrow touched her life; and no life is ever quite the same again when once that cold, sanctifying touch has been laid upon it.” ― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
- “In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.” ― Suzanne Finnamore, Split: A Memoir of Divorce
- “Everything changes, but beauty remains.” ― Kelly Clarkson
- “Her beauty effortlessly managed to arrest the pulse of each heart at the office and keep it in a dreamlike cage where she could have a look at each at her will and derive pleasure that, it had to be said, was a touch malicious in nature.” ― Pawan Mishra, Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
- “I am sure that God has given all his time in making you, the remaining human race has been created in haste.” ― Amit Kalantri, I Love You Too
- “POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
- “Beautify your breath – beautify your life.” ― Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment – Living in the Breath
- “I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.” ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
- “The Multiplicity and the Unity are one and the same thing, a thing that is both many and one at the same time. The waves, and the currents underwater, make up the ocean. The ocean is the underlying basis for every wave. Neither the ocean, nor the waves, can be understood in isolation from each other.” ― Alexis Karpouzos, NON-DUALITY: THE PARTICIPATORY UNIVERSE
- “You have to die to become alive and that’s why tragedy seems so beautiful.” ― Dominic Riccitello
- “I grow into these mountains like a moss. I am bewitched. The blinding snow peaks and the clarion air, the sound of earth and heaven in the silence, the requiem birds, the mythic beasts, the flags, great horns, and old carved stones, the silver ice in the black river, the Kang, the Crystal Mountain. Also, I love the common miracles-the murmur of my friends at evening, the clay fires of smudgy juniper, the coarse dull food, the hardship and simplicity, the contentment of doing one thing at a time… gradually my mind has cleared itself, and wind and sun pour through my head, as through a bell. Though we talk little here, I am never lonely; I am returned into myself. In another life-this isn’t what I know, but how I feel- these mountains were my home; there is a rising of forgotten knowledge, like a spring from hidden aquifers under the earth. To glimpse one’s own true nature is a kind of homegoing, to a place East of the Sun, West of the Moon- the homegoing that needs no home, like that waterfall on the supper Suli Gad that turns to mist before touching the earth and rises once again to the sky.” ― Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
- “I’m a peasantI’m the muzhikA pest you’re destined to play the musicAnd yes it’s pleasant to say it’s beauty I’mIndebted to rest respecting it truly” ― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality
- “I wonder if you know how special you are; I wonder if you know how precious you are; I wonder if you know how lucky I am to have you in my life; I love you so much.” ― Hassan Ali
- “If heart filled with purity,then mind found the beauty.” ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
- “I remember three years ago looking into the entrance pool of Julia’s stately domus and finding I was beautiful.” ― Amy Rachel Peterson, Perpetua: A Bride, a Martyr, a Passion
- “The darkest hour of my day is the one in which I don’t get to see you.” ― Amit Kalantri, I Love You Too