“There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.”

“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”

“If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.”

“This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.”

“We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.”

“Though it seemed so beautiful, the world around us was eternally dangerous. The price of spiritual freedom, we learnt, was eternal vigilance. Such a high price for so long.”

“The beautiful are shyer than the ugly, for they move in a world that does not ask for beauty.”

“After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.”

“Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.”

“We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.”