“Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.” MeanBeautifulUnderstandingHoursWoodsForestsDawnSunriseLovelinessBefore Sunrise Author:George Washington Carver
“There’s a great scene in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre [1974] that I’m obsessed with: Sally is being chased by Leatherface with a chainsaw... And she runs into thorn bushes. And she’s getting tangled up in it because she’s running fast... But Sally needs to move slowly in order to get through the bushes - she will get farther faster by going slowly because her hair and clothes won’t get tangled and caught. There’s something really beautiful about understanding that, while someone’s chasing you with a chainsaw, you have to move more slowly in order to get away.” NeedsRunningBeautifulMovingOrderUnderstandingSawsHairSceneClothesCaughtChainsFasterObsessedGet AwayTexasChasingTangledMassacresReally BeautifulChainsawRunning Fast Author:Christopher Bollen
“There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.” HumansRealityInspirationBeautifulUnderstandingOffersInsightAlternativesGenerousConsolationOutlookSympathetic Author:A.C. Grayling
“I would recommend meditating. I think that's the single most important thing that I do. More than stretching, more than the way I eat, there's something about understanding who you truly are. The essence of everyone is so beautiful that it's startling.” ImportantBeautifulUnderstandingMeditationEssenceImportant Things Author:Jennifer Beals
“Without defeats, how do you really know who the hell you are? If you never had to stand up to something - to get up, to be knocked down, and to get up again - life can walk over you wearing football cleats. But each time you do get up, you're bigger, taller, finer, more beautiful, more kind, more understanding, more loving. Each time you get up, you're more inclusive. More people can stand under your umbrella.” PeopleIfsKnowsKindBeautifulUnderstandingGrowthWalksHellFootballBiggerDown AndDefeatGet UpOver YouShortcomingsUmbrellaKnocked DownCleats Author:Maya Angelou
“Fully to understand a grand and beautiful thought requires, perhaps, as much time as to conceive it.” BeautifulUnderstandingBeautiful Thoughts Book:Pensées of Joubert Source: Pensées of Joubert
“Poetry is not an end in itself but in the service of life; of what use are poems, or any other works of art, unless to enable human lives to be lived with insight of a deeper kind, with more sensitive feelings, more intense sense of the beautiful, with deeper understanding?” HumansKindArtEndsUseFeelingsBeautifulUnderstandingDeeperInsightIntenseHuman LifeSensitivePoetry IsWorks Of ArtDeeper Understanding Author:Kathleen Raine
“Very ugly or very beautiful women should be flattered on their understanding, and mediocre ones on their beauty.” ShouldBeautifulUnderstandingUglyMediocreFlatteryBeautiful WomenVery BeautifulFlattered Author:Lord Chesterfield