Quotes about Beauty

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup.

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

Like the beach glass, the wood was more beautiful because of its journey, because of the things it had been through. Inside the perfect shells is dim, It's through the cracks, the light comes in.

There was no other place I loved so well as this one." "Me as well,"... For all the places I've loved, there have been none like this. This place is a deeper love, a sisterhood of water and sand and soul. A place where you fill me through my eyes and my ears, Father.

Find the beautiful things, little brother. Every time you mourn for me, I'll be far away. But when you celebrate, I'll be right there with you, dancing.

I would have lived more fully in the moment, realize how easily a perfect day can slip by unnoticed. Any day is the glory day if you choose to see the glory in it

But pleasing to the eye isn't the same as pleasing to God.

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

But I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.