Pastoral Resources

Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.

The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves, wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning, truth, beauty.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.

Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?

There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

This whole beauty thing is something I've never comprehended.

I grew up in a family where we weren't allowed to talk about beauty or to put any emphasis on physical appearance.

The beauty about the D-list is that people who are on it probably don't know they are.

I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.