When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
To me, beauty is inclusion - every size, every color - that's the world I live in.
My definition of God is the highest supreme feeling of beauty and light and happiness.
Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.
Beauty ain't always a little, cute colored flower. Beauty is anything where people be like, 'Damn.'
Beauty is not just a white girl. It's so many different flavors and shades.
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.
I find beauty in imperfection.
Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths.
Every flaw, scar, or mark you may have adds to your beauty.
Part of the beauty of Victoria's Secret modeling is that they are called 'Angels' for a reason - because they're aesthetics are supposed to be unobtainable. But so are mine. No one could ever be me. Look exactly as I do. Be exactly as I am.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Beauty without expression is boring.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
He's my idol. Putin is a beauty.
I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.
Jammu and Kashmir has a scenic beauty and I feel that the film industry rather than going abroad in countries like Switzerland and Australia, should visit Kashmir - which is the only Heaven on Earth for the shoots.
Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.
My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.
I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.
My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life - that is, to be happy.
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn't. And that's a tough place to be because you're never satisfied.
Beauty and the devil are the same thing.
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
Youthful beauty is a poor indicator of long-term appeal in a man.
Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.
I adore India, its culture, and all the beauty of the nation. My father is from Jammu, and he's had a profound influence on my mindset and way of being.
In writing, I try to find the right balance between momentum and infinity, truth and beauty.
Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It's not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.
You look at women at the Republican convention and women at the Democratic convention. Republicans have a certain aesthetic beauty that involves more makeup, bigger hair, more lurid outfits.
That's the beauty of being a straight-to-DVD star. It really helps you stay under the media's radar.
It's fine to have talent, but talent is the last of it. In an acting career, as in an acting performance, you've got to have vitality. The secret of successful acting is identical with a woman's beauty secret: joy in living.
I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.
The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers.