The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Do you love me because I'm beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love me?
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.
The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Spirituality exists wherever we struggle with the issue of how our lives fit into the greater cosmic scheme of things. This is true even when our questions never give way to specific answers or give rise to specific practices such as prayer or meditation. We encounter spiritual issues every time we wonder where the universe comes from, why we are here, or what happens when we die. We also become spiritual when we become moved by values such as beauty, love, or creativity that seem to reveal a meaning or power beyond our visible world. An idea or practice is "spiritual" when it reveals our personal desire to establish a felt-relationship with the deepest meanings or powers governing life.
It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -- "Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.
Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow,
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Oh, this is the joy of the rose: / That it blows, / And goes.
