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“Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”

Beauty

Book:The Prophet

Source: The Prophet

“Every visit gave me a new meaning to her beauty and a new insight into her sweet spirit, Until she became a book whose pages I could understand and whose praises I could sing, but which I could never finish reading. A woman whom Providence has provided with beauty of spirit and body is a truth, at the same time both open and secret, which we can understand only by love, and touch only by virtue; and when we attempt to describe such a woman she disappears like vapour.”

Beauty

Book:The Broken Wings

Source: The Broken Wings

“Only our spirits can understand beauty, or live and grow with it. It puzzles our minds; we are unable to describe it in words; it is a sensation that our eyes cannot see, derived from both the one who observes and the one who is looked upon. Real beauty is a ray which emanates from the holy of holies of the spirit, and illuminates the body, as life comes from the depths of the earth and gives colour and scent to a flower.”

Beauty

Book:The Broken Wings

Source: The Broken Wings

“Selma sat by the window, looking on with sorrowful eyes and not speaking, although beauty has its own heavenly language, loftier than he voices of tongues and lips. It is a timeless language, common to all humanity, a calm lake that attracts the singing rivulets to its depth and makes them silent.”

Beauty

Book:The Broken Wings

Source: The Broken Wings

“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.”

Poetry Beauty Eternity

Book:The Prophet

Source: The Prophet

“The two lovers walked among the willow trees, and the oneness of each was a language speaking of the oneness of both; and an ear listening in silence to the inspiration of love; and a seeing eye seeing the glory of happiness. "Astarte has brought back our souls to this life so that the delights of love and the glory of youth might not be forbidden us, my beloved.”

Love Inspirational Poetry Beauty Twin Flame

Book:A Tear and a Smile

Source: A Tear and a Smile

“The professors in the academy say, “Do not make the model more beautiful than she is,” and my soul whispers, “O if you could only paint the model as beautiful as she really is.”

Art Beautiful Women Beauty Woman Kahlil Gibran

Book:Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal

Source: Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal

“Beauty is a thing of might and dread. Like the tempest she shakes the earth beneath us and the sky above us.”

Might Beautiful Powerful Beauty Power Dread Tempest

Book:The Prophet

Source: The Prophet

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