Christopher Isherwood Quotes

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value;they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.

The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were beautiful, beautiful were bank and stream, forest and rocks, goat and gold-bug, flower and butterfly. So lovely, so delightful to go through the world this way, so like a child, awake, open to what is near, without distrust.

But when my grandmother saw me plucking [my eyebrows] she said: 'Don't. You will regret it. One day you will wake up with no eyebrows and think how stupid you were. Your eyebrows are the most beautiful thing about you.'

In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora.

What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

How beautiful is sorrow when it is dressed by virgin innocence! it makes felicity in others seem deformed.

That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.

Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.

The fields and the flowers and the beautiful faces are not ours, as the stars and the hills and the sunlight are not ours, but they give us fresh and happy thoughts.

This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

A garden isn't meant to be useful. It's for joy. Rumer Godden found in Power of Simple Living by Ellyn Sanna

Number of things happen after I was 50. One, you are hopefully secure in what you want to do - which means that you don't spend a lot of time chewing on your knuckles about your reason for being here.Also, you're at your most beautiful. No woman is ever more beautiful than she is at 50.

When she slept, she looked peaceful, beautiful. Not Lena's kind of beautiful, something different. She looked content - like a sunny day, a cold glass of milk, an unopened book before you cracked the binding.

There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.

I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody.

I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew.

If a rainbow makes a sound, or a flower as it grows, that was the sound of her laughter.

Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her.

All little creatures are beautiful...every living thing when it first sees life is born in beauty. What they grow to be is a different matter.

The people I find most beautiful are the ones who aren't trying.

Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit your mind, that the delightful influences which the green leaves, the blue sky, the moonbeams and clouds of the evening diffuse over the universe, may in their powers of soul-healing, visit your day visions, is my desire and hope.