For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
I want, of course, peace, grace, and beauty. How do you do that? You work for it.
Oh who can tell the range of joy or set the bounds of beauty?
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
We Orientals find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and darkness which that thing provides.
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.
The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.
I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing.