The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
The only sin is ugliness, and if we believed this with all our being, all other activities of the human spirit could be left to take care of themselves.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
I always say beauty is only sin deep.