Appreciating Beauty Quotes

The soul is that which beholds beauty even when the mind denies it.

Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride, married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Instructions for living a life: pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go

Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on the mysterious that is your surround. To feel it, to be aware of it, to see it, open your eyes and drop the dust of the ages. Clean your mirror! and see what beauty surrounds you, what tremendous grandeur goes on knocking at your doors. Why are you sitting with closed eyes? Why are you sitting with such long faces? Why can't you dance? and why can't you laugh?

A truly beautiful person is one who is good at discovering beauty.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.

We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?

If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.

The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it

Really appreciate the sunset as you're driving home, cursing all the terrible drivers on the road. Be where you are when you're there rather than out there in the future or back there in the past.

Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.

There is beauty in everything, even in silence and darkness.

Despite everything, life is full of beauty and meaning.

Beautiful thoughts build a beautiful soul. ...There's always something beautiful to be experienced wherever you are.

I want to love and be loved.... I don't want a world without love or grief or beauty. I'd rather die.

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

Life is sometimes very complicated, but we can purposely learn to enjoy the simple yet powerful and beautiful things God has created!

Make the most of every sense; glory in all the facets of pleasure and beauty which the world reveals to you...

I can find something beautiful in everyone

When my wife's Aunt Caroline was in her nineties, she lived with us, and she once remarked: 'Remembrance is sufficient of the beauty we have seen.' I cherish the remembrance of the beauty I have seen. I cherish the grave, compulsive word.

Art, when done well, creates empathy.

Look for the beauty in things.

Take moments to savor what is beautiful and good.