I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.

Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.

It's very hard for our parents who see us enter a world that they can't imagine.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again.

My work is about my life, and what I want to do with it.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. 

Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.

The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.

Don’t let them say you ain’t beautiful. They can all get fucked, just stay true to you.

There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.

The best and most beautiful things in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are felt in the heart.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

A flower blossoms for its own joy.

Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.

Beauty is a delightful prejudice.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk?

Poetry moves heaven and earth.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

Butterflies come to pretty flowers.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Beauty awakens the soul to act.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

The beautiful is always bizarre.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

All partisan movements add to the fullness of our understanding of society as a whole. They never detract; or, in any case, one must not allow them to do so. Experience adds to experience.

Madame, beauty is always queen, and the whole world her empire.

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

Beauty and folly are sisters.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.

Because you are alive, everything is possible.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.