Quotes about Beauty

Poetry without music may be beautiful, but music gives poetry wings and elevates it into song. That may be the reason for our love of song-it has wings and lifts us; with proper songs, it is a nourishing spiritual exercise.

Books are not made for furniture,but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

It is part and parcel of every man's life to develop beauty in himself. All perfect things have in them an element of beauty.

Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart.

No town can fail of beauty, though its walks were gutters and its houses hovels, if venerable trees make magnificent colonnades along its streets.

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past!

My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.

You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill.

Could I have envisaged the woman to be their mother, she would be exactly like you. Strong, devoted to God. And beautiful. Only now, since you have become my wife, do I begin to understand what love is. What our Lord desires for his bride. His followers. Now I know why he was willing to die.