“Kitsch tells you how nice you are: it offers easy feelings on the cheap. Beauty tells you to stop thinking about yourself, and to wake up to the world of others. It says, look at this, listen to this, study this - for here is something more important than you. Kitsch is a means to cheap emotion; beauty is an end in itself. We reach beauty through setting our interests aside and letting the world dawn on us. There are many ways of doing this, but art is undeniably the most important, since it presents us with the image of human life - our own life and all that life means to us - and asks us to look on it directly, not for what we can take from it but for what we can give to it. Through beauty art cleans the world of our self-obsession.”
Source: Confessions of a Heretic
“Ku i poholima ua mea he wahine maika'i.
A beautiful woman stands on the palm of the hand.
A beautiful woman makes one desire to caress and serve her.”
Source: Nā Wahine: Hawaiian Proverbs and Inspirational Quotes Celebrating Women in Hawai'i
“Beauty is the biggest enemy of attitude”
Source: The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse
“اس دوغلی دنیا میں انسان کا من چاہے کتنا ہی میلا ہو اس کا تن ضرور اجلا ہونا چاہیے ۔ بندے کے دل میں چاہے کتنا ہی کھوٹ ہو اس کے چہرے اور صورت میں کوئی کھوٹ نہیں ہونا چاہیے۔”
Source: Parizaad / پری زاد
“I travel to seek beauty, and remind myself to seek magic, In others, and then myself.”
Source: Last words for the road
“Reading verses is like taking in the beauty of nature or the love of our life, one glance is never enough, like our most cherished song played in a loop for hours together.”
Source: By the River Mandovi
“مرد کی شکل اور شخصیت کوئی نہیں دیکھتا۔ سب اس کا رتبہ اور عہدہ پرکھتے ہیں۔ دولت مرد کے ہر عیب، ہر خامی پر پردہ ڈال دیتی ہے۔”
Source: Parizaad / پری زاد
“Jackson Pollock and Hugh Hefner both rose to prominence in the 1950s, though Pollock’s appeal was that no one understood him, and Hefner’s appeal was that no one misunderstood him. When Modern men think of art, they tend to think of such highs and lows. In the midst of this daring game of extremes, art lost the common touch.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity
“She was a wild ocean. And he had always seen people giving up while trying to swim in her and swim back to the shore before they could drown. He always hesitated about that adventure. He was scared of failing to swim, and drowning to death. But he was never able to stop thinking about how the adventure could end up. He finally made his mind up and started swimming. And eventually, he gave up against the waves and the storms she created and he began to drown. But the moment he stopped fighting to survive, she slowly embraced him inside her arms. And he began to realise that everything was very different than what he had always imagined. He could feel every breath he took there, better than any place he had ever lived. She was splendid and he never felt like swimming away from her arms ever.”
Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
“We want to like old things. We want to like things of great beauty. When we imagine ourselves as the kind of people who love beautiful, old things, we enjoy the fantasy.”
Source: Love What Lasts: How to Save Your Soul from Mediocrity