Top 1200 Essence Of Beauty Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

The essence of temptation is the invitation to live independently of God.

The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.

Beauty is not all there is of poetry. It must contain the truth. It is not simply an oak, rude and grand, neither is it simply a vine. It is both. Around the oak of truth runs the vine of beauty.

The essence of apostasy is changing sides from that of the crucified to that of the crucifier.

I believe that in a certain way this is proof of the truth of Christianity: Heart and reason encounter one another, beauty and truth converge, and the more that we ourselves succeed in living in the beauty of truth, the more that faith will be able to return to being creative in our time too, and to express itself in a convincing form of art.

What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Love is, in its essence, a free, formless strand of luminosity.

Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

The speed of decision making is the essence of good governance.

I am an avid follower of the news, and sometimes you just can't take any more war, any more disasters, and you want to remind yourself there's beauty in the world. I wanted to show a more poetic side to my work. It was all about... a feeling of sadness, but in a cinematic kind of way. I find beauty in melancholy.

Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

In war, we always deform ourselves, our essence.

Physical beauty wasn't the same as True Beauty, any more than pretty ugly meant truly ugly or Magnetic North meant True North.

The essence of immorality is the tendency to make an exception of myself.

It's not the appearance, it's the essence. It's not the money, it's the education. It's not the clothes, it's the class.

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?

The essence of that which is like unto itself, is drawn.

It is of the essence of virtue that the good is not to be done for the sake of a reward.

Fashion is made up of paradoxes. There was a key moment in fashion. When the Japanese first arrived - Comme des Garçons, Yohji Yamamoto, and all - I have to humbly admit that I didn't understand the importance of it at all. It was Jean-Jacques Picart who explained it to me. They had a huge influence in that they showed that aestheticism could be different from prettiness, that there was beauty and that beauty was beyond pretty.

People know that pain is part of our nature, that it cannot be avoided and that it should not be avoided. But capitalism in this country is focused on the idea 1) that life can and should be absolutely beautiful; 2) that beauty can be defined according to an ironclad objective standard; 3) that beauty can be held onto forever if only you do the right things perfectly enough; and 4) that it can be purchased.

Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.

To find something beautiful is to hope that your life will be better if that is a part of it. Unfortunately, the promise of a better life that beauty makes and the hope that it will be fulfilled are not always realized: beauty, like friendship, is also double-edged.

The essence of style is how you live your life

Beauty is the lowest common denominator: I don't care what they say - every girl, every woman, wants to feel pretty and empowered and beautiful, within their own definition of beautiful. I love fashion, I love shopping, but I love beauty more because I love the science of it.

People destroy beauty when they find it. (Acheron) How so? (Artemis) By nature, people are petty and jealous. They envy what they lack and because they don’t know how to acquire something, they try to destroy anyone who has it. Beauty is one of those things they hate most in others. (Acheron)

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.

I think there is an idea, a unique essence to every club.

It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity.

The essence of forgiveness is absorbing pain instead of giving it.

The purposeful destruction of information is the essence of intelligent work.

I always believe that speed is the essence for any sport.

Speed is the absolute essence of any form of combat

The problem is that the U.K. in essence is a feudal society. It's everyone in their place.

The essence of all health begins through joyful living.

The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will.

All of my characters, I feel, have some essence of who I am in them.

The essence of life is doing things for their own sakes.

The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.

We lose in depth of expression when we go to inferior animals for comparisons with human beauty. Homer calls Juno ox-eyed; and the epithet suits well with the eyes of that goddess, because she may be supposed, with all her beauty, to want a certain humanity. Her large eyes look at you with a royal indifference.

Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in terms of youth and beauty. But it also gave me empathy for women who use beauty as a creative exploration. When expressed healthfully, dressing up, doing hair, crafting makeup, etc., is an art form.

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning.

It is the essence of dignity to pretend to desire what you cannot prevent.

Science knows the qualities of electricity, but not its real essence.

Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.

The essence of Africa's crises is fundamentally it's extreme poverty.

The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

The essence of training is to allow error without consequence.

Love is eternal, the aspect may change, but not the essence. ?

For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself.

I tend to like to make my statements more in fashion than in beauty, because what I normally respond to is when someone looks really effortless and deconstructed, beauty-wise, and they're fashion is really grand. Someone like Kate Moss is a great example.

The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.

Every man starts with all there is. Everything is here-the essence and substance of all there is.

Building awareness and responsibility is the essence of good coaching.