Will To Beauty Quotes

To every soul you encounter, be a mirror, which reflects only their beauty.

As I have said, you have no reason to trust me, and an excellent reason not to.

It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beauty that always hurt.

Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.

People always equate beauty with good, but it just ain't so.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

Why did people assume that the beautiful among them needed nothing but their beauty to bring them happiness? That behind the beauty there was nothing but an empty shell, insensitive shell?

Accentuated plainness and accentuated vice ought to bring about harmony. Beauty lies in harmony, in style, whether it be the harmony of ugliness or beauty, vice or virtue.

You know you've got problems when your head is hanging over the toilet, puking up your dinner, and what you're thinking of is your dad. And how he thinks you're not pretty.

God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in the world how can you understand God?

The woman who first gives life, light, and form to our shadowy conceptions of beauty, fills a void in our spiritual nature that has remained unknown to us till she appeared.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.

It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.

She'd always been a little contemptuous of beauty, as though it was something you had to trade away some other vital thing for.

Every one who has a heart, however ignorant of architecture he may be, feels the transcendent beauty and poetry of the mediaeval churches.

The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power.

I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

It's just poetry, beauty and love. How hard can that be to act?

I have never had a current state of mind. My mind changes a great deal. I am very affected by any sorrow or sad thing, and I am very affected by joy and beauty.

Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.

To the rich, therefore, falls the burden of Beauty. And if they cannot assume it, then they deserve to die.

I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.

I could not imagine that we should make much of an effort to preserve remainders of natural beauty in conquered Poland.

Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories.

When you are in a painful situation, look at it. If you look deeply enough and you don't get freaked out, you will see that there is beauty in everything. You will see that there is beauty in you.

When you meditate you are accessing eternity. You are plugging yourself into that source which is all light and all beauty and all perfection.

You could use a flower, a candle flame, anything you want that's suggestive of beauty and eternality.

The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.

Just see beauty as you walk around through your day. Feel things. Unhook from your thoughts and all the busy things you are doing. Start to look at life. This is mindfulness.

Then there will come a time where, very quickly, a woman will lose what some call her beauty.

The beauty of inspiration for me is that you can't predict when it's coming. I like that it just pops up out of nowhere. You just have to be open to its arrival.

Your personality - the real you inside - was the price of beauty.

That's the beauty about love. It's not about give-and-take - it's about feeling safe in one's needs - wanting to be looked after as much as wanting to look after.

And so we smile on, Feeding the truths we share With a union of our souls, Cathedral slaves of our passion Which builds beauty amongst chaos.

For day-to-day beauty, I'm a Q-tip and Vaseline kind of girl. I never leave home without Q-tips - they're a great fix for any makeup emergencies.

...because when beauty awes you, you must halt and try to catch your breath and your staggered heart.

Generally speaking, the greater a woman's beauty, the greater her modesty.

Take this squirrel, for instance. Ulysses. Do I believe he can type poetry? Sure, I do believe it. There is much more beauty in the world if I believe such a thing is possible.

Beauty is cruel, cruelty is beautiful.

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth.

Even beauty, in abundance, turns creepy.

You have to love, without judgment, every actor that you're working with to make beauty.

Beauty is that which excites the soul.

Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.

Adversity in life does not rob your heart of beauty. It simply teaches it a new song to sing.

Ugliness is an illusion, gentlemen. Like beauty. Like color. All depends on the light. The only reality is action.

I feel a great sense of pride and joy knowing that I played a part in bringing into the world more beauty and excitement.