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1 " There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty. "
― John Steinbeck , East of Eden
2 " Gloria laughed at them and said that she’d overtaken grief a long time ago, that she was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The only thing worth grieving over, she said, was that sometimes there was more beauty in this life than the world could bear. "
― Colum McCann , Let the Great World Spin
3 " Even in silence and darkness, the heart can see more beauty than the eyes. "
― Debasish Mridha
4 " No one wants to stumble into gates on moonless nights to trip in holes dug by dogs, but Maria finds more beauty than danger in night. "
― Jeannine Atkins , Finding Wonders: Three Girls Who Changed Science
5 " I would wear pink because I knew my future was anything but rosy. I would accessorize myself to the hilt, and I would wear flirty shoes because my world needed more beauty to counter all the ugliness in it. I would wear pink because I hated gray, I didn’t deserve white, and I was sick of black. "
― Karen Marie Moning , Bloodfever (Fever, #2)
6 " It has seemed to me sometimes as though the Lord breathes on this poor gray ember of Creation and it turns to radiance - for a moment or a year or the span of a life. And then it sinks back into itself again, and to look at it no one would know it had anything to do with fire, or light .... Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration. You don't have to bring a thing to it except a little willingness to see. Only, who could have the courage to see it? .... Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. "
― Marilynne Robinson , Gilead
7 " Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage that allows us to be brave - that is, to acknowledge that there is more beauty than our eyes can bear, that precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. And therefore, this courage allows us, as the old men said, to make ourselves useful. It allows us to be generous, which is another way of saying exactly the same thing. "
8 " The job of the United Nations is to grow more flowers, more smiles and more beauty on the earth. Once effect is created, cause will follow, "
― Amit Ray , Nuclear Weapons Free World - Peace on the Earth
9 " There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm. "
10 " Be beautiful for yourself, Janie. And only if you want to. If a man is worthy of you, he’ll see more beauty in who you are than in what you look like. "
― Penny Reid , Neanderthal Marries Human (Knitting in the City, #1.5)
