- “This is what you have faith in?” Ilyas turned to me in the dark. “I have faith in things that are beautiful and good,” he said, “and don’t tell other people what they need to do to be loved.” ― Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night
- “For Sayonara, literally translated, ‘Since it must be so,’ of all the good-bys I have heard is the most beautiful. Unlike the Auf Wiedershens and Au revoirs, it does not try to cheat itself by any bravado ‘Till we meet again,’ any sedative to postpone the pain of separation. It does not evade the issue like the sturdy blinking Farewell. Farewell is a father’s good-by. It is – ‘Go out in the world and do well, my son.’ It is encouragement and admonition. It is hope and faith. But it passes over the significance of the moment; of parting it says nothing. It hides its emotion. It says too little. While Good-by (‘God be with you’) and Adios say too much. They try to bridge the distance, almost to deny it. Good-by is a prayer, a ringing cry. ‘You must not go – I cannot bear to have you go! But you shall not go alone, unwatched. God will be with you. God’s hand will over you’ and even – underneath, hidden, but it is there, incorrigible – ‘I will be with you; I will watch you – always.’ It is a mother’s good-by. But Sayonara says neither too much nor too little. It is a simple acceptance of fact. All understanding of life lies in its limits. All emotion, smoldering, is banked up behind it. But it says nothing. It is really the unspoken good-by, the pressure of a hand, ‘Sayonara.” ― Anne Morrow Lindbergh, North to the Orient
- “buy me diamond studded goldwhen we go dubainothing looks better together except you&i” ― Malab, The Komorébi, The Breast Mountains Of All Time
- “Within my mind words become waste but the silence self-conscious; an impossible oubliette always held slightly apart. This snares my voice to great storms, things that don’t apologise, the world that doesn’t wait to strike.” ― Ian William L.
- “Happiness will bloom With fragrance and beautyIf you plant the seeds of loveWith a deep driving desire in the garden of hopeAnd nurture with tenderness,Compassion, and care;If you are always eager to share.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “If something is ugly, it’s likely that it’s only ugly because it’s never been given the opportunity to be beautiful. And never having had that opportunity is likely the ugliest thing of all.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “How beautiful is Love!I see Her in my dreamsAnd I dreamBut I thinkI won’t forgive HerIf She won’t waitForever for meLike I do for Her” ― Jazalyn, Hollow: A Love Like A Life
- “O my Courageous Sister! You have to become the beacon of hope for all women around you and then for the whole society.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
- “Carrero’s Third Law of Landscape MathematicsThe moment you start to recognize and understand that mathematics is the language of nature, and see the unseen laws of this beautiful world of numbers, and mimic its logic to create original systems, you are a Landscape Mathematician.” ― Yafreisy Carrero, Landscape Mathematics, Design with Numbers
- “Happiness lies even in tiny little butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.” ― Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
- “Makeup often makes a man look like he is cheating, not behaving himself, by making his woman look unlike herself.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
- “I’m not running away. But this is one corner of one country on one continent on one planet that’s a corner of a galaxy that’s a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying and never remaining the same for a single millisecond, and there is so much, so much, to see, Amy. Because it goes so fast. I’m not running away from things, I am running to them. Before they flare and fade forever.” ― Chris Chibnall
- “Material goods rarely alter our levels of happiness, unlike emotional experience. Having can never replace being. -Ilsa Crawford” ― Louisa Thomsen Brits, The Book of Hygge: The Danish Art of Living Well
- “and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.” ― Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer’s Life
- “The Hartliebs had no time for the snow. Outside their window, San Giorgio Maggiore seemed to be floating on the lagoon as if it had just surfaced there. The view was so beautiful that Victor felt his heart ache. Esther and her husband, however, stood side by side with their backs to the window.” ― Cornelia Funke, The Thief Lord
- “Don’t be plain. You were born beautiful and unique. Dress beautifully and uniquely you! – KailinGow.com Blog” ― Kailin Gow
- “My heart is the careful shape of a hakea seed—split by flames and floodplains and wildflowers—that bends tall to catch the colours dreamed above, but drops to a salving shade for all attending bright below.” ― Ian William L.
- “Beauty exists, even in unlikely places. The key isn’t to open your eyes but to open your heart.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, and Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
- “I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful” ― Oscar Wilde, De Profundis and Other Writings
- “In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness.” ― Amit Kalantri
- “What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?” ― Nenia Campbell, Cease and Desist
- “I don’t know why she never believes me when I call her beautiful. Maybe for the same reason I never believe her when she calls me the same. We’re so used to being outside the normal that it’s difficult to see ourselves as anything other than bitterly-remembered insults. It may take a lifetime of calling each other beautiful before we acknowledge that we truly are.” ― Courtney M. Privett, Emberstorm
- “But saints and angels behold that glory of God which consists in the beauty of His holiness; and it is this sight only that will melt and humble the hearts of men, wean them from the world, draw them to God, and effectually change them. A sight of the awful greatness of God may overpower men’s strength, and be more than they can endure; but if the moral beauty of God be hid, the enmity of the heart will remain in its full strength. No love will be enkindled; the will, instead of being effectually gained, will remain inflexible. But the first glimpse of the moral and spiritual glory of God shining into the heart produces all these effects as it were with omnipotent power, which nothing can withstand.” ― Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections
- “Looking for Your FaceFrom the beginning of my lifeI have been looking for your facebut today I have seen itToday I have seenthe charm, the beauty,the unfathomable graceof the facethat I was looking forToday I have found youand those who laughedand scorned me yesterdayare sorry that they were not lookingas I didI am bewildered by the magnificenceof your beautyand wish to see youwith a hundred eyesMy heart has burned with passionand has searched foreverfor this wondrous beautythat I now beholdI am ashamedto call this love humanand afraid of Godto call it divineYour fragrant breathlike the morning breezehas come to the stillness of the gardenYou have breathed new life into meI have become your sunshineand also your shadowMy soul is screaming in ecstasyEvery fiber of my beingis in love with youYour effulgencehas lit a fire in my heartand you have made radiantfor methe earth and skyMy arrow of lovehas arrived at the targetI am in the house of mercyand my heartis a place of prayer” ― Rumi, The Love Poems of Rumi
- “Beauty and vanity are not twins, though at times one may mimic the other convincingly.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
- “The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that.” ― Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
- “Like nature, we must grow with tranquility, beauty, harmony, and love.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “Last Night the Rain Spoke to Me”Last nightPhoto by Shawn NystrandPhoto by Shawn Nystrandthe rainspoke to meslowly, saying,what joyto come fallingout of the brisk cloud…That’s what it saidas it dropped,smelling of iron,and vanished…Then it was over.The sky cleared.I was standingunder a tree.The tree was a treewith happy leaves,and I was myself,and there were stars in the skythat were also themselvesat the momentat which momentmy right handwas holding my left handwhich was holding the treewhich was filled with starsand the soft rain –imagine! imagine!the long and wondrous journeysstill to be ours.” ― Mary Oliver, What Do We Know
- “Whenever you should doubt your self-worth, remember the lotus flower.Even though it plunges to life from beneath the mud, it does not allow the dirt that surrounds it to affect its growth or beauty. Be that lotus flower always. Do not allow any negativity or ugliness in your surroundings destroy your confidence, affect your growth, or make you question your self-worth.” ― Suzy Kassem
- “POLISH your MIND to reflect the shimmering BEAUTY of your WORDS and ACTIONS.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson