Beautiful

*Beauty is as beauty does,
So the saying goes:
So keep your actions beautiful,
From your head down to your toes.

**Beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
So that saying goes:
So throw your glasses away today,
If you want to cast aside your woes.

***She walks in beauty, is another phrase,
So everybody knows:
So choose your pathway carefully,
To fill your journey with rainbows.

****A thing of beauty is a joy forever,
So speaks this prose:
So if you want eternal happiness,
Buy things that won't decompose!

Lora Frikken ~ 9-10-05

*I couldn't find where this quote actually comes from.
Anyone know?

**Remember how in that communion only,
beholding beauty with the eye of the mind,
he will be enabled to bring forth,
not images of beauty, but realities
for he has hold not of an image but of a reality,
and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue
to become the friend of God and be immortal,
if mortal man may." ~Plato
NOTE: This has often been misquoted as:
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."

***She walks in beauty,
Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes.
~Lord Byron

****A thing of beauty is a joy forever;
Its loveliness increases
it will never pass into nothingness.
~ John Keats

A FEW MORE QUOTES ABOUT BEAUTY:

"Do you love me because I am beautiful,
or am I beautiful because you love me?"
~Cinderella

Aristotle called beauty "the gift of God."
Socrates called it "a short-lived tyranny."
Theophrastus, "a silent deceit."
Theocritus, "an ivory mischief."
Carneades, "a sovereignty which stood in need of no guards."

A soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
~Johann von Goeth

Let the beauty we love be what we do.
~Rumi

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
~Kahlil Gibran

[The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me.
~Marlene Dietrich

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
~Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
~Confucius