#beauty

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

We have art in order not to die of the truth.

I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful.

The voice of beauty speaks softly: it steals only into the most awakened souls.

The beauty of the soul shines outward when a man bears with equanimity one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Beloved Pan, and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be at one.

To appreciate the beauty of a day, one must have experienced the chill of the night.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

To say 'yes' to life is not to deny its sorrows, but to embrace them as the canvas upon which courage is painted.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

True beauty consists in purity of heart.

The beauty of the soul is invisible to the greedy eye.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

The stars are not afraid to appear like fireflies.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

The soul yearns for the boundless, yet loves the intimate flower.

Let gratitude be the perfume of your daily life.

To live without comparison is to discover extraordinary beauty.

The beauty of life is in its unpredictability.

The beauty of simplicity cannot be exaggerated.

Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.