“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

“For love and beauty and delight, there is no death nor change.”

“The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.”

“Beauty shouldn’t be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It’s about knowing that someone else’s definition of pretty has no hold over you.”

“Beauty and wisdom create the personality of the perfect individual but beauty isn’t achieved through the success of wisdom.. beauty is the innate quality of an individual who owns simplicity and respect..”

“Justice precedes beauty. Without justice, beauty is impossible, an obscenity. And when beauty has gone, what does a cameraman do with his eye?”