“Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.”

“Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.”

“The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.”

“Our lives become beautiful not because we are perfect.”

“By our trust in the divine beauty in every person we develop that beauty in ourselves.”

“We know so well what we are doing ourselves and why we do it, do we not? I fancy that there is some truth in the view which is being put forward nowadays, that it is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.”

“Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.”

“We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others”

“It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.”

“Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.”