"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."
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"Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it."
"Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic."
"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite."
"The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements."
"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."
"We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it."
"the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls"
"Beauty kindles love, and only the one who remains captivated by it, only the one who is intoxicated by it, only the one who remains a lover while he is investigating its essence, can hope to penetrate its essence."
"Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony."
"At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough."
"Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful."
"What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness."
"Elysian beauty, melancholy grace, Brought from a pensive though a happy place."
"The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand."
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world."
"As you awaken to your divine nature, you'll begin to appreciate beauty in everything you see, touch and experience."
"Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear"
"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."