Perilous Beauty Quotes & Sayings

Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary and dungeons for the overbold ... The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords. In that realm a man may, perhaps, count himself fortunate to have wandered, but its very richness and strangeness tie the tongue of a traveller who would report them. And while he is there it is dangerous for him to ask too many questions, lest the gates should be shut and the keys be lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Western culture has allowed for the open admiration of beauty because it is a human value and a pleasure, rather than some perilous evil. — Olivia Pierson

As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance. — Frank Herbert

People who are advanced meditators don't worry about liberation and self-realization; they instead are interested in the welfare of others and aiding others in their liberation. — Frederick Lenz

Beauty is a perilous gift ... — Ellis Peters

I love New Zealand. Every time I'm in New Zealand someone makes a joke about it being mostly sheep, which I think is unfair, because it's mostly nice people. It's mostly nice people and really wonderful scenery. — Patrick Stump

Raistlin opened his eyes, looking at her without recognition. And in them, she saw deep, undying sorrow
the look of one who has been permitted to enter a realm of deadly, perilous beauty, and who now finds himself, once more, cast down into the grey, rain-swept world. — Tracy Hickman

Sacrifice brings with it huge results. — Sereda Aleta Dailey

In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. — Alanis Morissette

Vulnerability is a wonderful tool for awakening and for learning and for growing and for connecting. — Colleen Saidman

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. — Thomas Mann

Wisdom loves the children of men, but she prefers those who come through foolishness to wisdom. — Paul Tillich

Sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

The most important thing is to stay the course - not to get shaken out of the market during a difficult time. — John W. Rogers Jr.

I sink you, that I will not be sunk by you. — Stacia Kane

All that you need is deep within you waiting to unfold and reveal itself. All you have to do is be still and take time to seek for what is within and you will surely find it. — Eileen Caddy

This wedding will put a period at the end of a sentence that wasn't supposed to have ended yet. — Jennifer E. Smith

That's the translucent life. You are continuously discovering how you can ooze more Spirit into your personal life and there's no end to that process. It goes on and on and deepens and deepens and deepens. — Arjuna Ardagh

Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

In really good companies, you have to lead. You have to come up with big ideas and express them forcefully. I have always been encouraged
or sometimes forced
to confront the very natural fear of being wrong. I was constantly pushed to find out what I really thought and then to speak up. Over time, I came to see that waiting to discover which way the wind was blowing is an excellent way to learn how to be a follower. — Roger Enrico

No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is ... dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals, with loving one place-home-above all others.
I embrace the world on a scale that allows genuine love-the small places like a town, a neighborhood, a street-and I love life, because of what the beauty of this world and of this life portend. — Dean Koontz

Right and wrong are concepts that only have meaning in this world, so by sorting existence on those characteristics, we are defining ourselves to exist only in this world. — Frederick Lenz