“Beauty may no longer be what it was before. It has become suspect and many have dethroned it from its art pedestal. A lot of questions are raised: When is art? , What is art? , Can this be art? As some feel so powerless and speechless, they painfully resort to the uplifting and comforting counsel of their art shrink.”
“...beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you can see both their beauty and their death.”
“Here s a comforting thought for you, Peter, he said. However long you may live, the world will never lose its ability to surprise you with its beauty.”
“And at the end of the night, they realized how important those little stars were, which they ignored while adoring the beauty of the moon whole night.”
“The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior.”
“Take care of your skin and your confidence will take care of itself.”
“Skincare is like a workout for your skin.”
“Every evening, they enjoyed the moonlit streams, and in the day they explored the valleys, searching for plum blossoms. When they happened upon a sheer cliff face they would compose poems and play the lute in the shade of the pine trees.”
“Maybe that s the thing we need to understand. Some things are a gift, even if you don t get to keep them. Maybe just to know that something this beautiful exists, that s all we can really ask for.”
“She saw beauty in everything but herself. Abuse can be like that.”
“Find consolation in comparing your sadness to the misery of a tree from the environmental disasters like deforestation or other kinds of forest killing; those trees are your real lovers who love you unconditionally. Learn from the true love of trees’ invisible hearts and try to stay happy by helping them to stay alive.”
“Beauty is the last thing which the thinking intellect dares to approach, since only it dances as an uncontained splendor around the double constellation of the true and the good and their inseparable relation to one another.”
“Only people with fake personalities who want to edit their own appearance.”
“Is beauty panacean, able to instill in us moments of transcendence? Or does the sun just melt the ice, beauty appreciated only when it is the constituent hum of a thing that fades?”
“Julia. Julia Julia. What are you doing to me? And what is it about beauty that intimidates; causing us to kneel somewhere deep inside and pray and wonder just how close we might crawl before being banished from the sanctuary?”
“We do not like final knowledge, because knowledge, Phaedo, has no dignity or severity: it knows, understands, forgives, without attitude; it is sympathetic to the abyss, it is the abyss. Therefore we deny it and instead seek beauty, simplicity, greatness and severity, of objectivity and form. But form and objectivity, Phaedo, lead the noble one to intoxication and desire, to horrible emotional transgressions rejected by his beautiful severity, lead to the abyss. Us poets, I say, it leads there, for we are unable to elevate ourselves, instead we can only transgress.”
“Ridiculous claims are everywhere in skincare, but we find them most eye-roll-worthy in cleansers. Assuming for a second that they did infuse their cleanser with a Fountain of Youth distillate, cleansers are just not really a good way to deliver all that anti-aging goodness into your skin. Remember, a cleanser s job is to take things off, not to add on. Regular priced cleansers with normal ingredients will do the job just fine.”