Beautiful Quotes - Page 75

When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

Grant that I may become beautiful in my soul within, and that all my external possessions may be in harmony with my inner self. May I consider the wise to be rich, and may I have such riches as only a person of self-restraint can bear or endure.

The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.

Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment.

I think it's a beautiful thing when you wear a uniform or a garb which represents a group of people, because what it immediately symbolizes is oneness, togetherness.

I really love that type of music where someone can take a guitar or light instrumentation and a beautiful voice and can send me somewhere.

It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.

Someone once asked me why people sing. I answered that they sing for many of the same reasons the birds sing. They sing for a mate, to claim their territory, or simply to give voice to the delight of being alive in the midst of a beautiful day. Perhaps more than the birds do, humans hold a grudge. They sing to complain of how grievously they have been wronged, and how to avoid it in the future. They sing to help themselves execute a job of work. They sing so the subsequent generations won’t forget what the current generation endured, or dreamed, or delighted in.

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful.

My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.

A self-esteem issue doesn't change whether you're considered beautiful or not because it's about what's inside you.

The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony.

Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and a great deal of pleasure there. There are friends, some of whom are sick and needful of you, as you will be of them someday. The world itself is very beautiful. It's a place where you have a lot to do. But you have to do it knowing that sometimes you will be afraid of this new country.

By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.

I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts.

There is no more beautiful sight than a young woman who glows with the light of the spirit who is confident and courageous because she is virtuous.

I like outgoing girls with a lovely smile and beautiful eyes.

The beautiful in life... Some talk of it in poetry, Some grow it from the soil, Some build it in a steeple, Some show it through their toil. Some breathe it into music, Some mold it into art, Some shape it into bread loaves... Some hold it in their hearts.

Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.

I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed.

Decoration is really about creating a quality of life, and a beauty in that life that nourishes the soul, that makes life beautiful.

If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation.