The true definition of science is this: the study of the beauty of the world.
—Simone Weil
How can one accept—let alone enjoy—aging in a culture where God is twenty-five; where advertisements are filled with twenty-somethings in halter tops and tight t-shirts, unless the ad is for a drug to treat incontinence, high blood pressure, or elevated cholesterol? What about the wisdom of age? What about endurance? What about the beauty of a face etched by years that were not always easy?
—Genie Zeiger
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
—John Lubbock
Part of the beauty of love was that you didn't need to explain it to anyone else. You could refuse to explain. With love, apparently you didn't necessarily feel the need to explain anything at all.
—Meg Wolitzer in The Interestings
Stop thinking this is all there is.… Realize that for every ongoing war and religious outrage and environmental devastation and bogus Iraqi attack plan, there are a thousand counter-balancing acts of staggering generosity and humanity and art and beauty happening all over the world, right now, on a breathtaking scale, from flower box to cathedral.… Resist the temptation to drown in fatalism, to shake your head and sigh and just throw in the karmic towel.… Realize that this is the perfect moment to change the energy of the world, to step right up and crank your personal volume; right when it all seems dark and bitter and offensive and acrimonious and conflicted and bilious… there's your opening. Remember magic. And, finally, believe you are part of a groundswell, a resistance, a seemingly small but actually very, very large impending karmic overhaul, a great shift, the beginning of something important and potent and unstoppable.
—Mark Morford
The grandeur of nature is only the beginning. Beyond the grandeur is God.
—Abraham Joshua Heschel
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
—Francis Bacon
Everything was okay. Maybe not perfect, but life wasn't meant to be perfect. It was messy and sometimes it was a disaster, but there was beauty in the messiness and there could be peace in the disaster.
—Jennifer L. Armentrout in Wait for You
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
If truth is beauty, how come no one has her hair done in a library?
—Lily Tomlin
From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.
—Guru Nanak
Love is the beauty of the soul.
—Saint Augustine
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
—Aristotle
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
—G. K. Chesterton
Particularly beautiful people were like particularly funny-looking people. Once you knew them you mostly forgot about it.
—Ann Brashares in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants