There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
Quotations
Beauty
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Beauty isn't just a pretty face, a beautiful body or even a cute voice. Beauty arises from your mind, your soul, and most important your personality. But most people don't seem to notice.
-Emily Gabriela Vira
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
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.
-Khalil Gibran
