Wednesday, February 11, 2009

beauty

~ When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~ Chinese proverb

~ The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart. ~ Helen Keller

~ The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself. ~ Henry Miller

~ People are like stained glass windows -- the true beauty can be seen only when there is light from within. The darker the night, the brighter the windows ~ Elizabeth KublerRoss

~ Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but reality (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may. ~ Plato

~ Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. ~ Jean Anouilh

~ There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith