“We were originally naked in the garden of paradise, "but unashamed." After the serpent of forced assimilation, "we were taught shame upon our natural beauty.”
Source: San Mateo: Proof of The Divine
“Why do you keep Dead Roses? He asked.
"I cherish Dead Roses as they live between the pages of my books. I believe, A fresh Rose is loved for its beauty but the dead one is beyond beauty. A fresh Rose is smelled for its scent but a dead one-- for the memories. A fresh Rose gives the feel of softness but a dead one gives the feel of past. A fresh Rose lives for days but a dead one-- FOREVER." She replied.”
“We are drawn to beauty, and we instinctively know that somewhere, somehow, such a thing as perfection exists. (...) Our best attempts at achieving perfection this side of glory come from an innate awareness that it not only exists, but that we were made for it.”
Source: Rembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
“Twenty-eight now, she has given birth to a girl she wraps in a piece of the sky stolen from a clear day.”
Source: On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
“His was the beauty of the night—dark moons and dark deeds. His was the beauty of the forest—hiding teeth and hiding monsters. His was the beauty of black ice—slick and thin and masking death.”
Source: A Feather So Black
“Beauty, she realised as her heart hammered, was not social or subjective. True beauty was catastrophic, irresistible as the rushing tides, crashing over and through all feeble attempts to say what was fair and what was not. Like the woodland vista that made the breath catch and the spirit soar, beauty was an irresistible force of nature, and to try to tell which particular branch – which particular leaf – was most appealing was to miss the forest for the trees.
No single thing she saw in Lady Ceistyl was more beautiful than any other. Nor could the fey be reduced to separate features, complimented on any one part. And even were Elly to try, no words were rich enough, no paint held hues that could capture the colour Lady Ceistyl brought with her as she appeared beside the watching wolf atop the fallen log.”
Source: Song of the Wild Knight – Part One: Song of the Squire
“The more we engage with beauty, the more we train our hearts to anticipate finding beauty, until eventually, everywhere we go, we're looking for it.”
Source: Rembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
“So many things in our world are beautiful but didn't need to be. God chose to make them that way so he might arrest his people by their senses to awaken us from the slumbering economy of pragmatism. That awakening is a vital function of beauty.”
Source: Rembrandt is in the Wind: Learning to Love Art through the Eyes of Faith
“We do not see our beauty, but we are blessed that all others see that beauty in us, from time to time, that beauty in us is revealed to others, through our words deeds and actions”
“She's a living, breathing piece of art.”
Source: Pieces of a Broken Mind