Ever-present loveliness Late afternoon loveliness Loveliness of a solitary spray of blossoms arranged Loveliness of flowers Loveliness of home Loveliness of little people Loveliness of nature Loveliness of singing Majestic loveliness Minute loveliness Perfect loveliness Persistent loveliness Poignant loveliness of the fragile universe Silent loveliness Simple loveliness Striking loveliness Surrounding loveliness of the natural world

Effortless elegance Elegance of design Elegance of form and colour Elegance of language Elegance of stillness Elegance of structure Elegance of swans Elegance that’s not fancy Extreme elegance Gentle elegance Intellectual elegance Interior elegance Quiet elegance Real elegance Simple elegance Stillness elegance Surviving elegance True elegance Typographical elegance Uncluttered elegance Visual elegance

Agreeable harmony Analogous harmony Artistic harmony Astonishing harmony Baseline harmony Beautiful harmony Belonging harmony Budget balancing Colour harmony Complete harmony Complex harmony Concord Discoverable harmony Divine harmony in the universe Flower harmony Glorious harmony Harmony among differences Harmony in blue Harmony in lighting Harmony in music Harmony in sound Harmony in words Harmony of bees Harmony of belonging Harmony of birds Harmony of colour Harmony of c

Abstract beauty Action beauty Adjective beauty Adventure beauty Afternoon beauty Air beauty All season beauty Alliterative beauty Always beauty Angel beauty Animal beauty Appreciation beauty Architectural beauty Archive beauty Art beauty Artistic beauty Astonishing beauty Atlas beauty Austere beauty Autumn beauty Awe beauty Basketry beauty Beach beauty Beautiful and harmonious beauty Beauty aloft Beauty as far as the eye can see Beauty at a microscopic level Beauty beyond com

Gerard Manley Hopkins Glory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim; Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings; Landscape plotted and pieced – fold, fallow, and plough; And all trades, their gear and tackle and trim. All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is pa

Helen Farries There are flowery pathways And shady lanes, There are sparkly sunbeams And showery rains, There are lovely valleys And bubbly brooks, There are lofty mountains And sheltered nooks, There are grassy meadows And starry skies There are happy bluebirds And butterflies, There are cheery rainbows And leafy trees – IN THIS BEAUTIFUL WORLD, Thank God for these!

chimes dawn golden hush lullaby luminous melody mist murmuring tranquil Barbara Kipfer, 14,000 things to be happy about

Mother Passion Smile Love Eternity Fantastic Destiny Freedom Liberty Tranquility The British Council Survey, 2004

Truth Harmony Goodness Happiness Simplicity Naturalness A joy forever A smiling face Being ourselves God's handwriting Symmetry of parts...

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. Walt Whitman If from all your wealth, two meagre loaves...

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the...