I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart’s affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not.

John Keats

This one probably won’t help you a bit, but it is one of my favorites, also from Keats:

There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.

I think your gift sounds lovely 🙂

Do they no longer look on the sky above them, how we’ve made it and embellished it, and there are not any flaws in it? And the earth – we’ve unfold it out, and placed therein enterprise mountains; and we’ve made to enhance therein all sorts of applicable species, As a potential of enlightenment and as a reminder to each servant that turns to US. And We deliver down from the clouds water that’s stuffed with advantages, and We produce therewith gardens and vegetation, And tall palm-wood with spathes piled one above the different, As a provision for Our servants; and We quicken thereby a ineffective land. however may be the Resurrection. Quran, Surah Qaf

Sorry, my quotes on beauty and God are decidely irreverent.

“I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?” -Jean Kerr

“God is love, but get it in writing” – Gypsy Rose Lee