Up: [[Savour]] Created: 2022-02-08 Updated: 2026-01-30 > [!Orbit] Edna St. Vincent Millay > Beauty is whatever gives joy. > [!Orbit] Alice Walker > Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. > [!Orbit] [[James Hillman]] in *The Soul’s Code* > Of all psychology’s sins, the most mortal is its neglect of beauty. There is, after all, something quite beautiful about a life. But you would not think so from reading psychology books. (p.35) > [!Orbit] Toni Morrison > At some point in life the world’s beauty becomes enough. You don’t need to photograph, paint, or even remember it. It is enough. > [!Orbit] [[John O’Donohue]] in *Beauty: the invisible embrace* > At its deepest heart, creativity is meant to serve and evoke beauty. (p.7) > [!Orbit] Coco Chanel > Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. > [!Orbit] Buddha > If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. > [!Orbit] Dostoyevsky > What beauty will save the world? > [!Orbit] David Steindl-Rast, Benedictine monk > The intellect sifts out what is true; the will reaches out for what is good. But there is a third dimension to reality: beauty. Our whole being resonates with what is beautiful. > [!Orbit] Victor Hugo > To love beauty is to see light. > [!Orbit] Marcus Aurelius > Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. > [!Orbit] Ralph Waldo Emerson > The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. > [!Orbit] Plotinus > Beauty must ever induce a wonderment and a delicious trouble…a trembling that is all delight. > [!Orbit] Robert Henri > I paint for the whole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive. > [!Orbit] Thomas Moore > An appreciation for beauty is simply an openness to the power of things to stir the soul. If we can be affected by beauty, then soul is alive and well in us, because the soul’s greatest talent is for being affected. The word ‘passion’ means basically “to be affected” and passion is the essential source of soul. > [!Orbit] Eugene Delacroix > Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul….Seek solitude. > [!Orbit] Muriel Barbery > Beauty is a succession of instants, and yet we want it to be eternal. > [!Orbit] Rollo May in *My Quest for Beauty* > We realize now that our common human language is not Esperanto or computers or something having to do with vocal cords and speech. It is, rather, our sense of proportion, our balance, harmony and other aspects of simple and fundamental form. Our universal language, in other words, is beauty. (p. 229) > [!Orbit] Ian Roberts in *Creative Authenticity: 16 principles to clarify and deepen your artistic vision* > Beauty comes from giving personal expression to deep currents within us. (p. 36) > [!Orbit] Edgar Allan Poe > I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty. > [!Orbit] Henry David Thoreau > You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind. > [!Orbit] Jade Angeles Fitton > To see something’s beauty, its true beauty, we have to see it in its element. A swan is only graceful in the water.