Best Beauty Quotes

 Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life....  Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and ugly days!  He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm.  A useless member of society, considered in terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place.  He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet.

The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong Because of weakness.

You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful.

Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body. I got tired of hating myself.

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring.

Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so.

There are beautiful flowers that are scentless, and beautiful women that are unlovable.

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.

The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary.

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. And intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way.

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

like, ‘Look, I can carry a baby! I’m gaining weight right, everything’s going well.’ And I’ve had that relationship ever since.

What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful implanted in the human soul

Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen.  But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

I’m pretty comfortable with my body. I’m imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once. Kate Hudson
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now. Alan Cohen
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty.  Most of us do not today believe that whatever the ups and down of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Don’t try to be what you’re not. If you’re nervous, be nervous. If you’re shy, be shy. It’s cute.

The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

We are repeatedly what we do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.

All gardening is landscape painting.

In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature.  In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life.

Holy is the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul.

There is something in us that loves symmetry, selection, arrangement, as well as wildness and irregularity. A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself than a small lawn.  The usual lawn expresses nothing so much a vacancy of mind or an impious waste of good material; whereas in a garden any man may be an artist, may experiment with all the subtleties or simplicities of line, mass, color, and composition, and taste the god-like joys of the creator.

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.  There is a symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring.  There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.  The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world...are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.

A fool there was and he made his prayer, (Even as you and I), To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair, (We called her the woman who did not care), But the fool he called her his lady fair.

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural.

Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.

It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Beauty and folly are generally companions.

I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things, Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

All the beings of the world pray,"  said my Grandad ...  "Each living thing gives its life to the beauty of all life,and that gift is its prayer.

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

There’s always a little truth behind every “just kidding”. A little knowledge behind every “I don’t know”. A little emotion behind every “I don’t care”. And a little pain behind every “it’s okay”.”

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me: Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light.

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind.  You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.

Beauty seen is never lost,
God's colors all are fast.

Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty?  Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me.  We put survival first.  But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it in the search for the beautiful.  Who can say that Nature does not do the same?

Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the beauty was gone.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

As one grows older one should grow more expert at finding beauty in unexpected places, in deserts and even in towns, in ordinary human faces and among wild weeds.

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole, And, oh! the eye was in itself a Soul!

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty.  I only think about how to solve the problem.  But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful,I know it is wrong.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.

I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel this way about ourselves.

Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other development.

I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.

Art consists of limitation.  The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Because in particular moments, in the dusk of a late May evening, when everything glows, when green seems greener than you've ever seen it before, and the roses you planted are beginning to flower, future tasks don't matter, neither do past worries -  because you witness a perfect moment of soul-restoring beauty.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

I naturally have an athletic build, thick legs yet a lean upper body. I filled out much later than all my classmates, and I thank God for it now. I had to learn to fix what I can and accept what I cannot fix…That’s probably the hardest thing.

I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.

If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of imbroidered worke, set with orient pearles, and garnished with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels? . . . The delight is great but the use greater, and joyned often with necessitie.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes...

How much time have I wasted on diets and what I look like? Take your time and your talent and figure out what you have to contribute to this world. And get over what the hell your butt looks like in those jeans!

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won’t discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man.

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

To me, fair friend, you never can be old
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies for instance.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

We ordinary people must forge our own beauty.  We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives ... What is the essence of this art of living?  Of course, even this art should have beauty as its essence.

The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life.

Lord of the far horizons,
Give us the eyes to see:
Over the verge of the sundown,
The beauty that is to be.

Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets it.

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way? In shape and feature Beauty's queen, In pastoral array.

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.  ~John Muir


Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.  ~George W. Russell


I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.  ~Author Unknown


By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.  ~Rabindrath Tagore


Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.  ~Kahlil Gibran


Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring.  Doubtless they

are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill.  In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.  ~Tertullian


That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.  ~Ninon de L'Enclos


Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.  ~Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"


Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.  ~Martin Buxbaum


Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being
~Ralph Waldo Emerson


“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching, Love like you’ll never be hurt, Sing like there’s nobody listening, And live like it’s heaven on earth.” | William

W. Purkey

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” | Mahatma Gandhi

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” | Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn

“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me…

Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” | Shel Silverstein

“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be

going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.” | Audrey Hepburn

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We

ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be?” |  Marianne Williamson, Return to Love

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” | Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn

or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” | Jack Kerouac, On the Road

“Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all.” | Emily Dickinson

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” | Ralph Waldo Emerson




 “All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
― Anne Frank

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
― Coco Chanel

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color

instead of taste.”
― John Green

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
― Scott Westerfeld

“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
― Leo Tolstoy


Judge nothing by the appearance. The more beautiful the serpent, the more fatal its sting. - William Scott Downey

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. – Miss Piggy

Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls. - Plato

Beauty is but a lease from nature. - Edward Counsel

Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror. - Pamela Anderson

Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye. – William Shakespeare

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see. - George W. Russell


Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart. (Nate Dircks)

Praised be the gods that made my spirit mad; kept me aflame and raw to beauty's touch. (Angela Morgan)

Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deper than itself. (Shairp)

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour. (Thomas Nash)

Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful? (Victor Hugo)

Tell me, shepherds, have you seen My Flora pass this way? In shape and feature Beauty's queen, In pastoral array. (Unattributed Author)

Beauty from order springs. (William King)

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. (George Eliot)

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. (Ninon de L'Enclos)

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty and truth. (Albert Einstein)

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense. (Kin Hubbard)

Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in them and try to follow where they lead.

(Louisa May Alcott)

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. (Johann von Goethe)

Beauty is the flower of virtue (John Ray)



Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran

We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. – Kahlil Gibran

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. - Ninon de L'Enclos

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. – Rabindranath Tagore

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. - Martin Buxbaum

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. - Christopher Morley

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. - Simone Weil

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. - Karl Lagerfeld



People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing you are the beholder.
Salma Hayek

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Maria Mitchell

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We

ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the

world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. And as we let our

own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson

Girls of all kinds can be beautiful – from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned; the quirky, clumsy, shy, outgoing and all in between.

It’s not easy though because many people still put beauty into a confining, narrow box…Think outside of the box…Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the

unique beauty in you.
Tyra Banks


“None but ourselves can free our minds.” | Bob Marley

“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” | F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both

friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.” | Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.” | William G.T. Shedd

“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.” | Siddhārtha Gautama



"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
-  Francis Bacon





"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."
-  John Ruskin





"All gardeners live in beautiful places because they make them so."
-  Joseph Joubert





"Remember, it is forbidden to live in a town which has no garden or greenery."
-  Kiddushin 4:12 





"What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!"
-  Logan Pearsall Smith





"The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural."
-  Lawrence Halprin





"Whatever is in any way beautiful has its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it."
-  Marcus Aurelius   




Close your eyes and see the beauty.  ~Author Unknown


It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.  ~Leo Tolstoy


In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.  ~Christopher Morley


Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.  ~Simone Weil


What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!  ~Logan Pearsall Smith


The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.  ~Author Unknown


When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.  ~Chinese Proverb


Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.  ~Roseanne


I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.  ~Karl Lagerfeld


There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.  ~Gilbert Keith Chesterton


Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament.  Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair

sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson





“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure

and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.” | Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign

tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is,to live everything. Live the questions

now. Perhaps you win then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” | Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“I don’t think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue

is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn’t revealed it’s beauty to them.” | Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” | Mary Oliver, New and Selected Poems

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” | T.S. Eliot




“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful

people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.”
― Dorothy Parker

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
― Confucius

“But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.”
― Anne Brontë


Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
Anne Roiphe
   
To love beauty is to see light.
Victor Hugo



The cottage garden; most for use designed,
Yet not of beauty destitute.
-  Charlotte Smith 





"We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of

many extremes."
-  Ralph Waldo Emerson





"As one grows older one should grow more expert at finding beauty in unexpected places, in deserts and even in towns, in ordinary human faces and among wild weeds."  
-  C. C. Vyvyan 





"The teleology of the Universe is directed to the production of Beauty... The type of Truth required for the final stretch of Beauty is a discovery and not a

recapitulation... Apart from Beauty, Truth is neither good, nor bad... Truth matters because of beauty."
-   Alfred North Whitehead



I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that

I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all

what we choose.
Margaret Cho

Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have…undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It’s

because he doesn’t care! He’s in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery. I am so tired of saying no, waking up in the morning and recalling every single

thing I ate the day before, counting every calorie I consumed so I know just how much self loathing to take into the shower. I’m going for it. I have no interest in

being obese, I’m just through with the guilt. So this is what I’m going to do, I’m going to finish this pizza, and then we are going to go watch the soccer game, and

tomorrow we are going to go on a little date and buy ourselves some bigger jeans.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Is fat really the worst thing a human being can be? Is fat worse than vindictive, jealous, shallow, vain, boring, evil, or cruel? Not to me.
JK Rowling

You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
Eckhart Tolle

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
George Bernard Shaw

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won’t discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and

caging and fearing yourself.
Geneen Roth



Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue. (Emerson)

The beauty seems right By force of beauty, and the feeble wrong Because of weakness. (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Do I love you because you're beautiful, Or are you beautiful because I love you? (Richard Rodgers)

Beauty is truth - truth, beauty - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. (John Keats)

No gems, no gold she needs to wear; she shines intrinsically fair. (Thomas Bedingfield)

There are beautiful flowers that are scentless, and beautiful women that are unlovable. (Anon)

It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out. (Zora Neale Hurston)

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away. (Laurence J. Peter)

Beauty and folly are generally companions. (Baltasar Gracian)

Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth. (Rumi)



"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance." John Ruskin

"If I could catch a rainbow I would do it just for you and share with you its beauty on the days you're feeling blue." Sandra Lewis Pringle Rainbow

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." Eleanor Roosevelt

"You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind." Henry David Thoreau

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness." Leo Tolstoy

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it." Confucius

"Without you being just the way you are, we would not have such beauty." Author Unknown

"Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe." Gabriela Mistral

"Real beauty lies not in the physical appearance, but in the heart." Author Unknown





Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Beauty and folly are generally companions. - Baltasar Gracian

 Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. - George Eliot

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

 Beauty is the shadow of God on the universe. - Gabriela Mistral

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. - Marie Stopes

Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude. - Grey Livingston

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

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. - Rosalind Russell



Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.  ~Confucius


   

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of

many extremes.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.  ~George Eliot


As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.  ~Edgar Allan Poe


The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.  ~Johann von Goethe


A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.  ~Karl Kraus


Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.  ~John Ruskin


Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.  ~Florenz Ziegfeld


Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait. ~Ninon de l'Enclos


Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.  ~John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 1851


Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day.  ~Mike Dolan



 Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
* Jean Anouilh


Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
* Marcus Aurelius


I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
* John Constable


We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of

many extremes.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson


Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
* Ralph Waldo Emerson


There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
* John Kenneth Galbraith


A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness.
* John Keats


I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want--an adorable pancreas?
* Jean Kerr


The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If

there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive--you are leaking.
* Fran Lebowitz


Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
* W. Somerset Maugham


Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
* Edgar Allen Poe




“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” | Lou Holtz

“Hold fast to dreams, For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird, That cannot fly.” | Langston Hughes

“Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” | J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

“Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.” | Suzanne Weyn, Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium






“It is not revolutions and upheavals That clear the road to new and better days, But revelations, lavishness and torments Of someone’s soul, inspired and ablaze.” |

Boris Pasternak

“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace.” | Chuck Palahniuk,

Diary

“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” | John Lennon

“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.” | Max Ehrmann, Desiderata

“Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” | Christian D. Larson

“All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.” | J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan



"We seem to have lost contact with the earlier, more profound functions of art, which have always had to do with personal and collective empowerment, personal growth,

communion with this world, and the search for what lies
beneath and above this world."
-  Peter London,  No More Second Hand Art





"Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being."
-  Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Rhodora





"In the Orthodox spiritual tradition, the ultimate moral question we ask is the following: Is what we are doing, is what I am doing, beautiful or not?"
-  Carolyn Gifford 





"Because in particular moments, in the dusk of a late May evening, when everything glows, when green seems greener than you've ever seen it before, and the roses you

planted are beginning to flower, future tasks don't matter, neither do past worries -  because you witness a perfect moment of soul-restoring beauty."
-   Turning Earth





"Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty.  There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
-  Navajo Song 




"A thing of beauty is a job forever." 
-  Milton Berle 





"Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world."
-  Florenz Ziegfeld 





"For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day."
-  Evelyn Underhill





"All gardening is landscape painting."
-  Alexander Pope








The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert Einstein
   
Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look

beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.
Amanda Peet
   
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
Khalil Gibran

People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a

light from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
   
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
   
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest

potential, and fight for your dreams.
Ashley Smith
   
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson



The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon

Just keep moving forward and don’t give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.
Johnny Depp

I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall

Nature didn’t need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.
Scott Westerfeld

I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
Unknown

I wrote “Bootylicious” because, at the time, I’d gained some weight and the pressure that people put you under, the pressure to be thin, is unbelievable. I was just

18 and you shouldn’t be thinking about that.You should be thinking about building up your character and having fun, and the song was just telling everyone to forget

what people are saying, you’re bootylicious. That’s all. It’s a celebration of curves and a celebration of women’s bodies.
Beyonce


 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.
* Katherine Anne Porter


Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
* John Ruskin


The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.
* George Sand


To me, fair friend, you never can be old
For as you were when first your eye I eyed,
Such seems your beauty still.
* William Shakespeare



And beauty, making beautiful old rhyme. (Shakespeare)

Some beautiful things are more impressive when left imperfect than when too highly finished. (La Rochefoucauld)

O, she is rich in beauty, only poor, that when she dies with beauty dies her store. (Shakespeare)

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. (Saint Augustine)

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonized the whole, And, oh! the eye was in itself a

Soul! (George Gordon Noel Byron)

Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. (John Donne)

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said. (George Santayana)

I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first. (George MacDonald)

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul. (W. S. Maugham)

Beauty brings its own fancy price, for all that a man hath will he give for his love. (Emerson)

Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left

awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell. (Marcel Proust)

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and

a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. (George Bernard Shaw)

It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful. (Bernard Shaw)

Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. (John Ruskin)

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing and therefore, of a nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls. And I further add that the good is the

beautiful. (Plato)





Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
* William Shakespeare


Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
* George Bernard Shaw


It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
* Voltaire


Beauty seen is never lost,
God's colors all are fast.
* John Greenleaf Whittier


"If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of imbroidered worke, set with

orient pearles, and garnished with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels? . . . The delight is great but the use greater, and joyned often with necessitie."
-  John Gerarde 





"All the beings of the world pray,"  said my Grandad ...  "Each living thing gives its life to the beauty of all life,
and that gift is its prayer."
-  Douglas Wood, Grandad's Prayers of the Earth  





"Confronted with the vision of a beautiful garden, we see something  beautiful about ourselves."
-  Jeff Cox 





A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
Karl Kraus

If you look closely at a tree you’ll notice it’s knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.
 Matthew Fox

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.” | Friedrich Nietzsche

“I do not believe this darkness will endure.” | J.R.R. Tolkien

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” | Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” | Friedrich Nietzsche

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is within you.” | Rumi

“All we have is all we need. All we need is the awareness of how blessed we really are.” | Sarah Ban Breathnach



"It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty.  We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision."
-  Ralph Waldo Emerson 





"You do not need to know anything about a plant to know that it is beautiful."   
-  Montagu Don





"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and

interesting people.  Forget yourself."
-  Henry Miller   





"As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a town they

confidently ask 25 percent more rent for a flat with a view of a park that for an identical flat with no view."
-  Nan Fairbrother 





"Rhythm, symmetry, and a happy combination of elegance and utility - a blend often desired in later days of  hope and struggle - these have been fully attained, and

with them a delight in quiet communion with Nature, expressing as she does the sense of beauty in orderliness."
-  Marie Luise Gothein, History of Garden Art, 1928




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 hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone....
~Sam Levenson


Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe.  ~Gabriela Mistral

Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.  ~Nate Dircks

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen.  But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.  ~Marie Stopes

Beauty — in projection and perceiving — is 99.9% attitude. ~Grey Livingston

Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.  ~Pablo Picasso

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep.  That's deep enough.  What do you want - an adorable pancreas?  ~Jean Kerr

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.  ~Saint Augustine

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.  ~Rosalind Russell

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.  No, give me a ruined complexion and

a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig.  Then you shall see me coming out strong.  ~George Bernard Shaw,

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind.  You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.  ~Garrison Keillor


Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless, peacocks and lilies for instance. (John Ruskin)

Paris wrapped in night! half nebulous The moonlight streams o'er the blue-shadowed roofs.. A lovely frame for this wild battlescene Beneath the vapor's floating

scarves, the Seine Trembles, mysterious, like a magic mirror Cyrano Act 5. (Edmund Rostand)

The sense of truth no matter how subjective is necessary for the experience of beauty. (Lawrence Durrell)

Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it. (Lady Duff-Gordon)

Rare is the union of beauty and modesty. (Juvenal)

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. (George Sand)

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. (Hannah Arendt)

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon also be beautiful. (Sapho)

Beauty is a mute deception. (Theophrastus)


"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts."
-  Rachel Carson  





"My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's lovliness."
-  Michelangelo Buonardo 





"I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness."
-  Karl Lagerfeld 





"We ordinary people must forge our own beauty.  We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives ... What is the essence of this art of

living?  Of course, even this art should have beauty as its essence."
-   Kenji Miyazawa





"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty.  I only think about how to solve the problem.  But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful,

I know it is wrong." 
-   Buckminster Fuller 





"Gardens unite artificial and natural beauty, embracing all the natural elements - water, light, air, growth - and making them elements of art.  Every effort devoted

to garden design becomes a mirror of the longing for happiness in harmony with nature." 
-  Carl F. Schroer 





"The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder."
-  Virginia Woolf





"Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has

hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."
-   Plato, Symposium




"Beauty in a person is never how they appear, it is how they act." Catherine Pulsifer

"I can make it a day long to be remembered for its joy, its beauty and its achievements, or it can be filled with pettiness." Author Unknown, from A New Day

"Only through difficulty can you rest at the peak, look out over the horizon that surrounds you, and rejoice beyond today's imagination at how beautiful life really

is and how lucky we truly are." Michelle C. Ustaszeski

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." Rachel Carson

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Beautiful is not what is beautiful, but what one likes." Yiddish Proverb

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so

gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress." Charles Dickens




Carol Botwin
Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks.

Edmund Burke
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Jean Kerr
I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want -- an adorable pancreas?

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty.

John Kenneth Galbraith
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Alexander Pope
Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare; And beauty draws us with a single hair.

Lord Byron
She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that

tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

Henry David Thoreau
The perception of beauty is a moral test.






“The bad news is you’re falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there’s no ground.” | Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche

“In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.” | Albert Camus

“be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.” |  Max Ehrmanm, Desiderata

“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” |  C.S. Lewis


“We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Why do beautiful songs make you sad?' 'Because they aren't true.' 'Never?' 'Nothing is beautiful and true.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
― Franz Kafka

“I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't

like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.”
― William Goldman

Beauty is an evil in an ivory setting. (Theocritus)

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a

light from within. (Elisabeth Kubler-Ross)

Beauty is the virtue of the body, as virtue is the beauty of the soul. (Emerson)

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. (Lady Blessington)

All things of beauty are not theirs alone who hold the fee; but unto him no less who can enjoy, than unto them who own, are sweetest uses given to posses. (J. G.

Saxe)

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. (Johann Von Schiller)

All women are not Helen......but have Helen in their hearts. (William Carlos Williams)

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. (Michelangelo)

The stars of midnight shall be dear To her; and she shall lean her ear In many a secret place Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring

sound Shall pass into her face. Three years she grew in Sun and Shower. (William Wordsworth)

Women have, in general, but ne object, which is their beauty; upon which, scarce any flattery is too gross for them to swallow. (Lord Chesterfield)

For she was beautiful: her beauty made the bright world dim, and everything beside seemed like the fleeting image of a shade. (Shelley)

The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber. (Francis Quarles)

Beautiful faces are those that wear whole-souled honesty printed there. (Ellen P. Allerton)

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. (E. B. Browning)

Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break. (Sara Teasdale)

Take from our hearts the love of the beautiful, and you take away all the charm of life. (Rousseau)

Who doth not feel, until his failing sight Faints into dimness with its own delight, His changing cheek, his sinking heart confess, The might--the majesty of

Loveliness? (George Gordon Noel Byron)





Oscar Wilde
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Saint Augustine
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Friedrich Nietzsche
Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty.

Anne Roiphe
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.

Kahlil Gibran
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.

Ernest Hemingway
The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, Resound through dying coals of a campfire.

D. H. Lawrence
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.

Hellen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched -- they must be felt with the heart.

Voltaire
Beauty pleases the eyes only; sweetness of disposition charms the soul.

Alexis Carrel
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better

for being praised.

When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty. (Kahlil Gibran)

I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful

or ugly, well-ordered or confused. (Benedict Spinoza)

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only let yourself believe. (Sarah McLachlan)

Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused. (Edward Gibbon)

Kindness is worth more than beauty. (Jean D'Arras)

Goodness is a special kind of truth and beauty. It is truth and beauty in human behavior. (H. A. Overstreet)

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. (Confucius)




“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
― Anne Frank

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
― Marcus Aurelius


Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. - Garrison Keillor

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. - Pablo Picasso

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. - Helen Keller

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. – Oscar Wilde

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a

light from within. – Elisabeth Kubler



Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break. – Sara Teasdale

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. – Sophia Loren


Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw
   
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Aldous Huxley
   

"Beauty is like summer fruits which are easy to corrupt and cannot last."
-  Frances Bacon  





"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!"
-  Louise Bogan





"What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself."
-  Willa Cather





"It seemed to my friend that the creation of a landscape-garden offered to the proper muse the most magnificent of opportunities.  Here indeed was the fairest field

for the display of the imagination, in the endless combining of forms of novel beauty."
-   Poe

 



"A garden, the, is a finite place, in which a gardener (or several gardeners) has created, working with or against nature, a plot whose intention it is to provide

pleasure; possibly in the form of beauty, possibly in the form of cabbages - and possibly, beautiful cabbages."  
-  Abby Adams, The Gardener's Gripe Book 





"The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The

ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible."
-  Albert Einstein  



"Order is the shape upon which beauty depends."
-  Pearl S. Buck 





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





"Beauty always promises, but never gives anything."
-  Simone Weil





"If you would have a lovely garden, you should live a lovely life."
-  Shaker saying





"In the creation of a garden, the architect invites the partnership of the Kingdom of Nature.  In a beautiful garden the majesty of nature is ever present, but it is

nature reduced to human proportions and thus transformed into the most efficient haven against the aggressiveness of contemporary life."
-  Luis Barragán, Mexico





"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."
-   Kahlil Gibran  





"It seemed to my friend that the creation of a landscape-garden offered to the proper muse the most magnificent of opportunities.  Here indeed was the fairest field

for the display of the imagination, in the endless combining of forms of novel beauty."
-   Edgar Allan Poe 





"Garden," "park" and "wood" are thus synonymous in our times with the ideas of beauty, naturalness and health."
-   Tornsten O. Enge  





"In order to comprehend the beauty of a Japanese garden, it is necessary to understand - or at least to learn to understand - the beauty of stone."
-  Lafcadio Hearn 





"For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide."
-  Thomas Mann




Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
   
There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.
Liv Tyler
   
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith
   
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Rabindranath Tagore

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost” | J.R.R Tolkien

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful

people do not just happen.” | Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Whatever you are, be a good one” | Abraham Lincoln

“Promise me you’ll always remember: You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” | A. A. Milne

“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”| Kahlil Gibran

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better

for being praised. (Marcus Aurelius Antoninus)

The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way. (Don Williams, Jr)

If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food either. (Joseph Wood Krutch)

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. (Confucius)

Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good. (Goethe)

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! (Logan Pearsall Smith)

Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay? (Longfellow)

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. (Francis Bacon)

The most beautiful object in the world, it will be allowed, is a beautiful woman. (Macaulay)

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. (Hellen Keller)

No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that

gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes. (Erasmus Darwin)

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)

Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. (Pablo Picasso)

Exceeding fair she was not; and yet fair In that she never studied to be fairer Than Nature made her; her beauty cost her nothing, Her virtues were so rare. (George

Chapman)



 Walt Whitman
Give me the splendid silent sun, with all his beams full-dazzling!

Ralph Waldo Emerson
If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
He thought it happier to be dead, To die for Beauty, than live for bread.

Alexander Pope
Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.

John Keats
Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all, Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

Alexander Pope
If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.

Edgar Allan Poe
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste.

Rudyard Kipling
A fool there was and he made his prayer, (Even as you and I), To a rag and a bone and a hank of hair, (We called her the woman who did not care), But the fool he

called her his lady fair.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things, Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and

the sand and the wild uproar.





“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.” | Samuel Beckett

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” | Jack Kerouac

“We work in the dark – we do what we can – we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” | Henry

James, The Middle Years

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” | Henry David Thoreau

“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.” | Anton Chekov

“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it is over, I don’t want to

wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don’t want to end up

simply having visited this world.” | Mary Oliver

“Don’t step into lives that aren’t yours, make choices that aren’t nourishing, or dance stiffly for years with the wrong partner, or parts of yourself.” | SARK



"Beauty is truth, truth beauty; that is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know." 
-   John Keats (1795-1821) 





"Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole."
-  Leon B. Alberti





"Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature."
-  Joseph Addison 





"A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!"
-   T.E. Brown, 1887 





"Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition."
-  D. H. Lawrence





"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul."
-  John Muir



Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness. (D.

H. Lawrence)

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. (O. W. Holmes)

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in mind which contemplates them. (David Hume)

Doth perfect beauty stand in need of praise at all? Nay; no more than law, no more than truth, no more than loving kindness, nor than modesty. (Ibid)

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting -- a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair

sky, in every flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness. (John Keats)

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains....My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to

recapture happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy! (Anne Frank)

She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me: Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of

light. (Hartley Coleridge)

Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought. (Robert Buchanan)




A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.
-English Proverb

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.
-Proverb

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.
-Proverb

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.
-Proverb

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
-Joseph Addison

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of

thy presence.
-James Allen


What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.
-Father Andre

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
-Jean Anouilh

Things are beautiful if you love them.
-Jean Anouilh

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
-Jean Anouilh

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
-Aristotle

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will

be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
-Aristotle




Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes.
Cheri K. Erdman

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I’m not going to complain about the way my

body is shaped.
Drew Barrymore

Beauty isn’t worth thinking about; what’s important is your mind. You don’t want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
Garrison Keillor

It’s true, the scale can only give you a numerical reflection of your relationship with gravity. That’s it. It cannot measure beauty, talent, purpose, life force,

possibility, strength, or love. Don’t give the scale more power than it has earned. Take note of the number, then get off the scale and live your life. You are

beautiful!
Steve Maraboli

I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
Karl Lagerfield

Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic.
Rosalind Russell

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.
Aimee Mullins


   
Beauty has a lot to do with character.
Kevyn Aucoin
       
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank
   
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Jacqueline Bisset
   
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob Dylan
   
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson
   
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the

creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
Charlie Chaplin


The human body is the best work of art.
Jess C. Scott

I don’t take good pictures ’cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
Ani DiFranco

I’m pretty comfortable with my body. I’m imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once. Kate Hudson
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now. Alan Cohen
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you’ve got and fifty percent what people think you’ve got.
Sophia Loren

One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body. I got tired of

hating myself.
Gabourey Sidibe


“Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we never imagined. Out

goes naivete, in comes wisdom; out goes anger, in comes discernment; out goes despair, in comes kindness. No one would call it easy, but the rhythm of emotional pain

that we learn to tolerate is natural, constructive and expansive… The pain leaves you healthier than it found you.” | Martha Beck

“There shall be an eternal summer in the grateful heart.” | Celia Thaxter

“Never stop dreaming of moonbeams and fairy dust, shiny stars and the wonder of the heavens, a happier life and a better world.” | James J. Gormley

“Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of

rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human

race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the

ones who do.” | Steve Jobs

“We are repeatedly what we do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” | Aristotle

“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.” | Elizabeth Gilbert

“Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.” | David Whyte

“There will always be suffering. But we must not suffer over the suffering.” | Alan Watts

“I can give you my loneliness, my darkness, the hunger of my heart, I am trying to bribe you with uncertainty, with danger, with defeat.” | Jorge Luis Borges

“You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds Except the one in which you belong.” | David Whyte



There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence

of beauty.
Steve Maraboli

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
Douglas Horton

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor Hugo

I have a crumble baby belly, boobs are worse for wear after two kids…I’m doing all right. I’m 33. I don’t look in the mirror and go, “Oh, I look fantastic!”. Of

course I don’t. Nobody is perfect. I just don’t believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, “This is who I am and look at me not being perfect!”. I’m proud of

that.
Kate Winslet

What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she’s wearing or the food

she’s not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn’t think about body image, ever?
Caroline Knapp

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.

These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful

people do not just happen.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross





Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty --excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable --should persist after the

beauty was gone.
-Mary Arnim

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
-Francis Bacon

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.
-George Bancroft

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
-George Bancroft

I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
-Tyra Banks

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
-Georges Bataille

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular.

Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each

manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
-Charles Baudelaire

The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own.
-Max Beerbohm

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
-Al Bernstein




“I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.”
― Oscar Wilde

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the

present, only about the past.”
― Virginia Woolf

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit,

the absurd.”
― Thomas Mann

“Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a

sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a

fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have

wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
― Laozi

 “A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of

the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe


“If anything is worth doing, it is worth doing it badly.” | Martha Beck

“Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as

giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the

infinite power of our light.” | Brené Brown

“Your life is not a problem to be solved but a gift to be opened.” | Wayne Muller

“Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.” | Rumi

“Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.” | James Joyce

“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” | Virginia Woolf

“The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers But above all the world needs dreamers who do.” | Sarah Breathnach

“Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing

something.” | Jarod Kintz

“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” | Ernest Hemingway

“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” |Confucius



Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better.
Walt Disney

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look.
Henri Matisse

The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no

reason.
John Cage

I have learned more and more to enjoy my body when I have a few extra pounds on, just being more voluptuous. I say, focus on the body part that you feel most

comfortable about.
Fergie

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
Amy Bloom

How much time have I wasted on diets and what I look like? Take your time and your talent and figure out what you have to contribute to this world. And get over what

the hell your butt looks like in those jeans!
America Ferreira


Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better

for being praised.
    Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
    Margaret Cho

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
    Margaret Cho

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.
    Margaret Cho

Somebody once said that beauty is the passport to success, but it's not a passport. It's a visa and it expires.
    Michael J. Mosley and Nicholas Rossiter

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
    Pearl Buck

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
    Petrarch

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know

it is wrong.
    R. Buckminster Fuller

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.
    Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.
    Roger Ebert



Don’t try to be what you’re not. If you’re nervous, be nervous. If you’re shy, be shy. It’s cute.
Adriana Lima

I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love

myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.
Queen Latifah

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.
Rashida Jones

To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini – put it on and stay strong.
Jennifer Love Hewitt

Body acceptance means, as much as possible, approving of and loving your body, despite its “imperfections”, real or perceived. That means accepting that your body is

fatter than some others, or thinner than some others, that your eyes are a little crooked, that you have a disability that makes walking difficult, that you have

health concerns that you have to deal with — but that all of that doesn’t mean that you need to be ashamed of your body or try to change it. Body acceptance allows

for the fact that there is a diversity of bodies in the world, and that there’s no wrong way to have one.
Golda Poretsky



"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful."
-  Ninon de L'Enclos





"Don't underestimate the therapeutic value of gardening.  It's the one area where we can all use our nascent creative talents to make a truly satisfying work of art. 

Every individual, with thought, patience and a large portion of help from nature, has it in them to create their own private paradise: truly a thing of beauty and a

joy for ever."
-   Geoff Hamilton, Paradise Gardens, 1997





"We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs.  How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening.  It makes it so lifelike."
-  Evelyn Underhill 





"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
-  Edgar Allen Poe 





"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament.  Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair

sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing."
-  Ralph Waldo Emerson





"I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!" 
-  Louise Bogan



“Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
― Henry James

“I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.”
― Drew Barrymore

“Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”
― Scott Westerfeld, The Uglies Trilogy

“You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“She didn't say it, I only thought she said it. So really it was my thought, my words, and not hers. How could I confuse "I love you" with "May I take your order?”
― Jarod Kintz



“The one who asks questions doesn’t lose his way.” | African proverb

“Love everyone. Trust few. Paddle your own canoe.” | Anonymous

“There’s always a little truth behind every “just kidding”. A little knowledge behind every “I don’t know”. A little emotion behind every “I don’t care”. And a little

pain behind every “it’s okay”.” | Source Unknown

“Ready, aim, fire? Fire. Fire. Fire.” | Peter Senge

“If consensus is overrated, I think balance is, too. I have no interest in living a balanced life. I want a life of adventure.” | Chris Guillebeau

“Enough of these phrases, conceit and metaphors, I want burning, burning, burning.” | Rumi

“I thank god for this most amazing day: for leaping greenly spirits of tress and a blue true dream of sky; for everything which is natural which is infinite which is

yes.” | e.e. cummings

“If you want to reach the sky, you better learn how to kneel.” | Bono

“Remarkable is a choice.” | Seth Godin

“To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing you do. The whole moon

gleams in every pool.” | Fernando Pessoa



Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Khalil Gibran
   
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe
   
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
Juvenal


It can be a real struggle to accept that sometimes appearance can be more important than talent or intelligence.
    Jennifer Hudson

No matter how big the glam squad, or how dramatic the dress, sometimes things just don’t work out.
    Jennifer Hudson

So many people miss out on true talent because they can’t get past a look. At the end of the day, losing weight was easy, but finding talent? Now that’s hard.
    Jennifer Hudson

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no

reason.
    John Cage

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
    John Constable

I look foreword to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
    John F. Kennedy

I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing.

I pity it because it isn't beautiful.
    L. M. Montgomery

One can dream so much better in a room where there are pretty things.
    L. M. Montgomery

Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.
    Louis Schwartzberg



Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Aristotle
   
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
   
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
   
The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Chanakya
   


"It seemed to my friend that the creation of a landscape-garden offered to the proper muse the most magnificent of opportunities.  Here indeed was the fairest field

for the display of the imagination, in the endless combining of forms of novel beauty."
-  Poe  





"Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life....  Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in these difficult and

ugly days!  He is one of the few people left in this distressful world to carry on the tradition of elegance and charm.  A useless member of society, considered in

terms of economics, he must not be denied his rightful place.  He deserves to share it, however humbly, with the painter and poet."
-   Vita Sackville-West, 1892-1962





"In the end, color combinations come down to our personal preferences, which we must discover through observation and experiment."  
-   Montagu Don 





"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
-  Albert Camus





"Death is the mother of beauty." 
-   Wallace Stevens, Sunday Morning, 1915





"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
-   Douglas Adams





"Ring the bells that still can ring.
Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets it."
-   Leonard Cohen




There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.
Edgar Allan Poe

It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my

angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.
Stephen Fry

How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands.
Seth Green

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are.
Jo Blackwell-Preston

Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body — meaning that it wasn’t put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was

like, ‘Look, I can carry a baby! I’m gaining weight right, everything’s going well.’ And I’ve had that relationship ever since.
Amy Adams

I naturally have an athletic build, thick legs yet a lean upper body. I filled out much later than all my classmates, and I thank God for it now. I had to learn to

fix what I can and accept what I cannot fix…That’s probably the hardest thing.
Keri Hilson


"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
-  Franz Kafka  





"Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole."
-  Leon B. Alberti 





"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said."
-  George Santayana 





"Exhuberance is Beauty."
-   William Blake 





"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
-   Antoine de Saint Exupery 





"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."
-  Christopher Morley 





"Better a pearl with a flaw than a pebble without.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
-  Confucius 





"Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise."
-   George Washington Carver





"The poor need not only bread.  The poor also need beauty."
-   Monsignor Hldebrand





"Beauty is the Mistress, the gardener Her slave.
All beautiful things disappear, and beauty is the memory of ideas. 
Chrysanthemums in bloom over a carpet of dry leaves - the contrasts and pathos of beauty.
A flower needs roots; beauty of society of minds."
-  Michael P. Garofalo, Pulling Onions   





"Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man."
-   Henry Wadsworth Longfellow  




I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?
Goldie Hawn

When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year old girl. Then I say, ‘You’re Lady Gaga, you get up and walk the walk today.’
Lady Gaga


“
Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find

people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. And intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people

who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let

the cattle stand in your way.” | Janet Fitch

“Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them.

Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.” | Gregory David Roberts

“Holy is the supernatural extra brilliant intelligent kindness of the soul.” | Allen Ginsberg

“If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.” | Emily Dickinson

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” | William Blake

“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call it forth its riches.” | Rainer Maria Rilke
“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.” | Arthur Rimbaud

“Our ability to grow is directly proportional to an ability to entertain the uncomfortable.” | Twyla Tharp

“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you

believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” | Marilyn Monroe

“The only way to stay sane is to go a little crazy.”| Susanna Kaysen




Beauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin Franklin
   
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx
   
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
   
A beauty is a woman you notice; a charmer is one who notices you.
Adlai E. Stevenson
   
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine
   
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert Camus



"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger.  There is really nothing to be said about it.  It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all." 
- W. Somerset Maugham  





"The first law of a painting and of a picture on the soil is to be a whole . . .  Without principles and without discernment one never attains veritable beauty."
-   Edouard André 





"Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye."
-   Grey Livingston





"The first act of awe, when man was struck with the beauty or wonder of Nature, was the first spiritual experience."
-   Henryk Skolimowski





"It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves."
-  Robert Louis Stevenson 





Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius

 I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape. - Scarlett Johansson

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she

shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. - Audrey Hepburn

Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. - Khalil Gibran

Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. - Khalil Gibran

 As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. - Ralph Waldo Emerson



“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature's laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by

keeping it's dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared.”
― Tupac Shakur

“Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an

advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.”
― Alex Flinn, Beastly

“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
― P.C. Cast

“Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?”
― Richard Rodgers



"The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty."
-  Isadora Duncan  





"Lord of the far horizons,
Give us the eyes to see
Over the verge of the sundown
The beauty that is to be."
-  Bliss Carman 





"Life just seems so full of connections.  Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life.  We only see flat surfaces."
-  Colin Neenan

 



"Beauty is excrescence, superabundance, random ebulience, and sheer delightful waste to be enjoyed in its own right."
-   Donald Culross Peattie, An Almanac for Moderns  





"There is no spot of ground, however arid, bare or ugly, that cannot be tamed into such a state as may give an impression of beauty and delight."  
-  Gertrude Jekyll 





"Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us."
- W.E.B. du Bois 





"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.  There is a symbolic as well as actual beauty in the

migration of the birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring.  There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of

nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.  The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world...are available to anyone who

will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life."
-   Rachel Carson (1907-1964)   





"Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace."
-  Author Unknown 





"Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see."
-   George W. Russell





"Not only in grass fields with green leaf and running brook did this constant desire find renewal.  More deeply still with living human beauty; the perfection of

form, the simple fact of forms, ravished and always will ravish me away. In this lies the outcome and end of all the loveliness of sunshine and green leaf, of

flowers, pure water and sweet air. This is embodiment and highest expression; the scattered, uncertain, and designless loveliness of tree and sunshine brought to

shape.  Through this beauty I prayed deepest and longest, and down to this hour.  The shape the divine idea of that shape the swelling muscle or the dreamy limb,

strong sinew or curve of bust, Aphrodite or Hercules, it is the same.  That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let the divine beauty bring to me divine soul."
-   Richard Jefferies,  The Story of My Heart





“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the

beautiful implanted in the human soul.”
-  Johann Wolfgang Goethe 





"It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome,

enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired."
-   Henry David Thoreau





"God is beauty."
-   St. Francis of Assisi





"Beauty and folly are generally companions."
-  Baltasar Gracian 





"Art consists of limitation.  The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame."
-   G. K. Chesterton 





"Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty."
-  George Eliot  



“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not,

when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” | Henry David Thoreau

“Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to arrive.” | Robert M. Pirsig

“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She’s not perfect – you aren’t

either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold

onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break –

her heart. So don’t hurt her, don’t change her, don’t analyze and don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you

mad, and miss her when she’s not there.” | Bob Marley

“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to

no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your

selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To

love is to be vulnerable.” | C.S. Lewis

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul

perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible..

it’s yours.” | Ayn Rand

“Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.”  | Siddhārtha Gautama

“Love is what we are born with. Fear is what we learn. The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and prejudices and the acceptance of love back in our hearts.

Love is the essential reality and our purpose on earth. To be consciously aware of it, to experience love in ourselves and others, is the meaning of life. Meaning

does not lie in things. Meaning lies in us.” | Marianne Williamson

“Another year is fast approaching. Go be that starving artist you’re afraid to be. Open up that journal and get poetic finally. Volunteer. Suck it up and travel. You

were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer

than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world.” | Jason Mraz

“The really important kind of freedom involves attention, and awareness, and discipline, and effort, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice

for them, over and over, in myriad petty little unsexy ways, every day.” | David Foster Wallace

“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” | J.K. Rowling





It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

 Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. - Dorothy Parker

 Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited. - William Goldman

 There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion. - Edgar Allan Poe

 Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. – Franz Kafka

 Where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. - John Galsworthy

 Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet

it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are

indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it. - Roger Scruton



“The human body is the best work of art.”
― Jess C. Scott

“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
― Louisa May Alcott

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.”
― John Keats

“Looking at him now-even if she hadn't been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother's daugher, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone,

would still have wanted him.”
― Cassandra Clare




"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility."
-  Rachel Carson





"Most of us have lost that sense of unity of biosphere and humanity which would bind and reassure us all with an affirmation of beauty.  Most of us do not today

believe that whatever the ups and down of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful."
-   Gregory Bateson





"Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked."
-  Ralph Ellison, Battle Royal





"Over fertilized plants may be beautiful but are otherwise useless, like people whose energies are devoted so completely to their appearance that there is no other

development." 
-  William Longgood   





"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
-  Leo Tolstoy 





"Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty?  Face to face with any one of the elaborate flowers which

man's cultivation has had nothing to do with, it does not seem fantastic to me.  We put survival first.  But when we have a margin of safety left over, we expend it

in the search for the beautiful.  Who can say that Nature does not do the same?"
-   Joseph Wood Krutch  





"Lord of the far horizons,
Give us the eyes to see:
Over the verge of the sundown,
The beauty that is to be."
-  Bliss Carman  





"There is something in us that loves symmetry, selection, arrangement, as well as wildness and irregularity.
A small garden, accordingly, gives its owner a far greater opportunity to express himself than a small lawn.  The usual lawn expresses nothing so much a vacancy of

mind or an impious waste of good material; whereas in a garden any man may be an artist, may experiment with all the subtleties or simplicities of line, mass, color,

and composition, and taste the god-like joys of the creator."
-   H. G. Dwight, Gardens and Gardening, Atlantic Monthly, 1912





"If you truly love Nature, you will find beauty everywhere."
-   Vincent Van Gogh





"Living Nature, not dull art
Shall plan my ways and rule my Heart."
-  John Henry Cardinal Newman 



   
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru
   
Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor Hugo
   
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. Wells
   
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke
   
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Maria Mitchell
   
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint Augustine
   
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil

and the false.
Richard Cecil
   
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Charles Lamb
   
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon






“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes...”
― George Gordon Byron

“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.”
― Frederick Buechner

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It's all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.”
― Chuck Palahniuk




What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?
    Ann Radcliffe

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
    Anne Frank

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
    Cheryl Tiegs

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
    Eleanor Roosevelt

What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay.
    Ellen DeGeneres

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
    Havelock Ellis

"By plucking her petals,
You do not gather the beauty of the flower."
-  Rabindrath Tagore





"The foundations of the world are to be found, not in the cognitive experience of conscious thought, but in the aesthetic experience of everyday life."
-   Alfted North Whitehead 





"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example."
-   John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice 





"The beautiful rests on the foundations of the necessary."
-  Ralph Waldo Emerson  




The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
    Hazrat Inayat Khan

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and

interesting people. Forget yourself.
    Henry Miller

An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones.
    Jane Austen

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

I am in control of all decisions that have to do with my image, which means that no one will decide what’s right for me except me. I’m not special. We should all feel

this way about ourselves.
    Jennifer Hudson