There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
Quotations
Beauty
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
-George B. Mere
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
