Yoga means addition – addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.
Beauty Quotes
Shakespeare, Milton and Emerson sit at the top, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon, a poet far less read now than in the 1820s, has a surprising number of entries. Emerson’s Nature (1836) supplies the best-sourced line, that beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue. Coleridge’s Christabel (1797) and Emerson’s poem on the rhodora are the pieces to read in full.
Three lines carry flags. “Beauty is the promise of happiness” is credited to Edmund Burke and marked misattributed. A couplet about beauty’s fading nature having a season is credited to Robert Burns and disputed. “We all have a weakness for beauty” is credited to Albert Camus, also disputed.
To live fully is to recognize the beauty of the now, unburdened by the past or future.
Sleep, angry beauty, sleep, and fear not me.
For who a sleeping lion dares provoke?
An understanding of beauty and enthusiasm for it are one and the same.
Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.
In the body itself what is beauty save a little skin, well colored?
The muddy, impure world, so undiscriminating,
Seeks always to hide beauty, out of jealousy.
Like twinned with unlike is beauty's shock. And beauty...is eternal.
“Beauty, especially Filipina beauty, is not a performance—it’s a presence."