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Best Quotes About Beauty (Top 100)
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Marilyn Monroe -
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.
Jim Henson -
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.
Stephenie Meyer -
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank -
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Maya Angelou -
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein -
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt -
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller -
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy -
What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
Scott Westerfeld -
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone
Dorothy Parker -
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth -
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart
Kahlil Gibran -
I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne Frank -
Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
Oscar Wilde -
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Ray Bradbury -
Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.
Albert Camus -
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
Amy Bloom -
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius -
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 -
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
Toni Morrison -
The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.
Ernest Hemingway -
Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James -
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Roald Dahl -
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
Lord Byron -
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 of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan Poe -
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Nadine Gordimer -
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas -
We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Happy girls are the prettiest girls.
Audrey Hepburn -
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.
Saul Bellow -
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
George Meredith -
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Keats -
Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such
Henry Miller -
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingthey 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 -
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.
Brian Andreas -
To all the girls that think you're fat because you're not a size zero, you're the beautiful one, its society who's ugly.
Marilyn Monroe -
Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.
William Shakespeare -
Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
John Lubbock -
My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
Rodney Dangerfield -
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 -
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr -
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
Louisa May Alcott -
Make-up can only make you look pretty on the outside but it doesn't help if your ugly on the inside. Unless you eat the make-up.
Audrey Hepburn -
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Henry Rollins -
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert Einstein -
A women who doesn't wear perfume has no future.
Coco Chanel -
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John Keats -
Until an hour before the Devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven.
Arthur Miller -
Hear no evil, speak no evil, and you won't be invited to cocktail parties.
Oscar Wilde -
Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.
Gwyneth Paltrow -
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.
John Donne -
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon -
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 -
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya Angelou -
Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson -
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
John Keats -
I don't understand how a woman can leave the house without fixing herself up a little - if only out of politeness. And then, you never know, maybe that's the day she has a date with destiny. And it's best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.
Coco Chanel -
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
Coco Chanel -
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath Tagore -
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Love is a beautifier.
Louisa May Alcott -
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Ivan Panin -
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson -
You are never too old to become younger!
Mae West -
She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm.
Oscar Wilde -
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Sophia Loren -
It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.
Raymond Chandler -
Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poe -
Elegance is refusal.
Coco Chanel -
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 -
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 -
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris -
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
Dante Alighieri -
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
Frank Lloyd Wright -
No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
Marilyn Monroe -
A woman's perfume tells more about her than her handwriting.
Christian Dior -
Looking beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.
Amit Ray -
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
Hunter S. Thompson -
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.
Stephen King -
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf -
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.
Albert Einstein -
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day; imbeciles to be in great places, people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no narrow illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of the night; we wake up to it, forever and ever; and we can neither forget it nor deny it nor dispense with it.
Henry James -
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
Louis Kahn -
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
Lucille Ball -
The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.
George Santayana -
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
Coco Chanel -
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 -
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.
Sophia Loren -
Beauty without expression is boring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
James Allen -
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience.
Naomi Wolf -
Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
Wallace Stevens
Even More Beauty Quotes
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I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.
Elsie de Wolfe -
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Hedy Lamarr -
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything — except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.
Anton Chekhov -
Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
Sophia Loren -
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.
Kahlil Gibran -
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 -
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
David Hume -
I do not know which to prefer - The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling Or just after.
Wallace Stevens -
For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
Audrey Hepburn -
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
John Muir -
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
John Keats -
Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.
Amit Ray -
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 -
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
Anatole France -
If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty.
Benjamin Franklin -
First comes the sweat. Then comes the beauty if you're very lucky and have said your prayers.
George Balanchine -
If you haven't cried, your eyes can't be beautiful.
Sophia Loren -
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde -
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Brigitte Bardot -
Soon the child's clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions. Simple free being becomes encrusted with the burdensome armor of the ego. Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn. The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day, we become seekers.
Peter Matthiessen -
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 poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. If you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms.
Audrey Hepburn -
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin -
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
John Burroughs -
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob Dylan -
There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
Helena Rubinstein -
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
Milan Kundera -
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
David Attenborough -
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
Alice Walker -
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Lily Tomlin -
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
John Donne -
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint Augustine -
It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
D.H. Lawrence -
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka -
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 -
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Georgia O'Keeffe -
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today. Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
Liam Neeson -
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot -
A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise
Aldo Leopold -
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The nature of this flower is to bloom.
Alice Walker -
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
Joanne Woodward -
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
Laurence J. Peter -
Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
Sappho -
I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
Oscar Hammerstein II -
If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.
Andrew Harvey -
Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
Oscar Hammerstein II -
Love beauty; it is the shadow of God on the universe
Gabriela Mistral -
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten -
But the longer and further I ran, the more I realized that what I was often chasing was a state of mind- a place where worries that seemed monumental melted away, where the beauty and timelessness of the universe, of the present moment, came into sharp focus.
Scott Jurek -
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.
Lauren Bacall -
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 -
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
Henry James -
Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.
Amedeo Modigliani -
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
Karl Lagerfeld -
Being naked approaches being revolutionary; going barefoot is mere populism.
John Updike -
Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein -
All the freaky people make the beauty of the world.
Michael Franti -
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 -
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.
Baruch Spinoza -
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 -
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
Lewis Mumford -
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
Albert Einstein -
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Maria Mitchell -
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Jean Ingelow -
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. 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 thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.
E. e. cummings -
Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.
Edward Steichen -
I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.
Edith Wharton -
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
William Wordsworth -
Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person.
Nikki Giovanni -
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
Garrison Keillor -
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
Chanakya -
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston Churchill -
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Akhenaton -
Beauty is nothing but a promise of happiness.
Stendhal -
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
Edwin Way Teale -
Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love
Rabindranath Tagore -
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir -
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
Kahlil Gibran -
For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.
Evelyn Underhill -
My mother always called me an ugly weed, so I never was aware of anything until I was older. Plain girls should have someone telling them they are beautiful. Sometimes this works miracles.
Hedy Lamarr -
The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.
Mary Baker Eddy -
Exuberance is beauty.
William Blake -
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
Ingrid Bergman -
For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Jane Austen -
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
Jane Seymour -
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
Andre Breton -
Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.
Ivana Trump -
God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
Jean-Claude Van Damme -
What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive!
Alexander Herzen -
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
Imelda Marcos -
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees – And I found her bitter – And I reviled her.
Arthur Rimbaud -
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
Leon Battista Alberti -
Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light.
Claude Debussy -
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 -
The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep.
Harry Emerson Fosdick -
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
William Penn -
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But it's not, it's a visa, and it runs out fast.
Julie Burchill -
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.
George Santayana -
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
Rosalind Russell -
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley -
Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.
Gwyneth Paltrow -
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
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 -
Things are beautiful if you love them.
Jean Anouilh -
O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
Christopher Marlowe -
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity.
Plato -
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Arthur Helps -
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
John Ray -
Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Aldous Huxley -
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
Coco Chanel -
A very beautiful woman hardly ever leaves a clear-cut impression of features and shape in the memory: usually there remains only an aura of living color
William Bolitho -
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Aimee Mullins -
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
Imelda Marcos -
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
Harriet Beecher Stowe -
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
George Washington Carver -
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 -
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
Chaim Potok -
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Arthur Cayley -
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Joseph Addison -
Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti -
If you constantly think of illness, you eventually become ill; if you believe yourself to be beautiful, you become so.
Shakti Gawain -
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Johnny Depp -
A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.
Anne Roiphe -
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw -
A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.
Voltaire -
Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.
Hubert de Givenchy -
Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.
Auguste Rodin -
To love beauty is to see light.
Victor Hugo -
I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'
Jim Carrey -
To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
Joan Collins -
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon de L'Enclos -
The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Paul Cezanne -
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
David Hockney -
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 -
Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
Horace -
To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.
Bernard Edmonds -
It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
Alfred Jarry -
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.
Kevyn Aucoin -
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Robert Browning -
How goodness heightens beauty!
Milan Kundera -
Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
Johann Von Schiller -
Beauty is truth, truth beauty
John Keats -
Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate?
Germaine Greer -
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? Am I making believe I see in you, a woman too perfect to be really true? Do I want you because you're wonderful, or are you wonderful because I want you? Are you the sweet invention of a lover's dream, or are you really as beautiful as you seem?
Oscar Hammerstein II -
Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
Langston Hughes -
Truth is beautiful within and without, forevermore.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.
Jean Toomer -
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
Florence King -
Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
Helen Gurley Brown -
Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
Lindsay Lohan -
I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
George Bernard Shaw -
All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
Evelyn Underhill -
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
Logan Pearsall Smith -
A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect.
Chinese Proverb -
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.
Claude Debussy -
Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement...as if they were lost and desperate.
Pablo Casals -
A women's greatest asset is her beauty.
Alex Comfort -
In things to be seen at once, much variety makes confusion, another vice of beauty. In things that are not seen at once, and have no respect one to another, great variety is commendable, provided this variety transgress not the rules of optics and geometry.
Christopher Wren -
Beauty [is] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.
Cameron Diaz -
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Joseph Wood Krutch -
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.
Jean Genet -
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
Alexander Alekhine -
Just when you're beginning to think pretty well of people, you run across somebody who puts sugar on sliced tomatoes.
Will Cuppy -
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 -
Only the really plain people know about love - the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents.
Katharine Hepburn -
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Socrates -
It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Phyllis Diller -
Incredibly, inordinately, devastatingly, immortally, calamitously, hearteningly, adorably beautiful.
Rupert Brooke -
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
Ouida -
He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.
George Herbert -
It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.
Thornton Wilder -
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 soon grows familiar to the lover, Fades in his eye, and palls upon the sense.
Joseph Addison -
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
Sara Teasdale -
To see a hillside white with dogwood bloom is to know a particular ecstasy of beauty, but to walk the gray Winter woods and find the buds which will resurrect that beauty in another May is to partake of continuity.
Hal Borland -
A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
Gaston Bachelard -
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
Kinky Friedman -
You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You're the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
Chuck Palahniuk -
I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?
Goldie Hawn -
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
Eli Wallach -
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
John Keats -
Beauty is one of the rare things which does not lead to doubt of God.
Jean Anouilh -
The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.
Marlene Dietrich -
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
Anouk Aimee -
Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.
James Russell Lowell -
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
George Saintsbury -
Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Awaits alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Thomas Gray -
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose Bierce -
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Plautus -
The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
Edwin Way Teale -
Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.
Marianne Moore -
Most urgently, women's identity must be premised upon our 'beauty' so that we will remain vulnerable to outside approval, carrying the vital sensitive organ of self-esteem exposed to the air.
Naomi Wolf -
Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation?
Rosalind Russell -
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
Conor Oberst -
Man makes holy what he believes as he makes beautiful what he loves.
Ernest Renan -
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades.
Jacqueline Bisset -
I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.
Buddy Holly -
Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man.
Yoko Ono -
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Michelangelo -
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
Albrecht Durer -
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
Christian Dior -
People come to see beauty, and I dance to give it to them.
Judith Jamison -
The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
Aristotle -
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Havelock Ellis -
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 -
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
John Kenneth Galbraith -
There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
Edith Hamilton -
Wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it.
William Wycherley -
It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
Euripides -
I guess if you take yourself seriously as an artist there starts either the problem or the beauty of doing good artwork.
Bill Griffith -
I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.
Bessie Smith -
It is very fashionable for good-looking ladies to say how hard it is to be beautiful, but that's not true. There are times when itdepresses and bothers me to see just how easy things are made for a beautiful woman.
Catherine Deneuve -
Your face encompasses the beauty of the whole earth. Your lips, as red as ripening fruit, gently part as if in pain. It is the smile of a corpse. Now the hand of death touches life. The chain is forged that links the thousand families that are dead to the thousand generations to come.
Edvard Munch -
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
Agnes Martin -
Like charity, I believe glamour should begin at home.
Loretta Young -
I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.
Edward Weston -
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Andre Gide -
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
John Ruskin -
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
Camille Paglia -
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 -
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
Charles Reade -
I think human beings make life beautiful. There's a lot of beauty in everything. I think what makes life beautiful is the ability to acknowledge that.
Andrew McMahon -
Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?
Paul Gauguin -
There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful
Rene Russo -
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
Joseph Brodsky -
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.
Marie Curie -
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine -
Beauty and happiness and life are all the same and they are pervasive, unattached and abstract and they are our only concern. They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.
Agnes Martin -
We made a deal that was acceptable to us. We got paid very handsomely for our final season.
Jason Alexander -
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
Paul Klee -
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Dante Alighieri -
Absence makes the heart grow fonder. Prolonged absence makes the heart forget.
Thomas Haynes Bayly -
Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I'm not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we're looking at the insides of people a little more.
Anne Heche -
Serenity and inner beauty come when we wait upon God. "Waiting" like that is not merely wasting time.
Eva Burrows -
It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.
Cornelia Otis Skinner -
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
Northrop Frye -
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde -
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
Homer -
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
Alexander Alekhine -
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
St. Jerome -
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
William Butler Yeats -
We were sent into the world alive with beauty. As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage us towards unexpected forms of compassion, healing and creativity.
John O'Donohue -
Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality!
Dave Sim -
The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
Sarah Bernhardt -
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty.
William Congreve -
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Marguerite Gardiner -
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.
Helen Keller -
To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
Samuel Butler -
To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.
Barry Long -
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
Ambrose Philips -
Every artist undresses his subject, whether human or still life. It is his business to find essences in surfaces, and what more attractive and challenging surface than the skin around a soul?
Richard Corliss -
Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life.
Rachel Carson -
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning -
Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.
William Hazlitt -
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty pains and when it pained most, I shot.
Ernst Haas -
My dream is to save them from nature.
Christian Dior -
All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
Marguerite Young -
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
Dodie Smith -
Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.
Kin Hubbard -
I pour into the world the eternal streams Wan prophets tent beside, and dream their dreams.
John Vance Cheney -
Think of spoiled cat food and ulcerated cankers and expired donor organs. That's how beautiful she looks.
Chuck Palahniuk -
To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.
Albert Einstein -
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Helen Rowland -
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit. Someone said to me not too long ago, "Until you're twenty, you have the face you are born with, and after that you have the face you deserve.", and I really loved that - the idea that you wear who you are on your face.
Jennifer Lopez -
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.
Henry James -
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 -
I don't get anything for free. I pay for all my beauty treatments.
Jennifer Lopez -
Beauty is the gift of God
Aristotle -
The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.
Kedar Joshi -
Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.
Dejan Stojanovic -
Every age, every culture, every custom and tradition has its own character, its own weakness and its own strength, its beauties and cruelties; it accepts certain sufferings as matters of course, puts up patiently with certain evils. Human life is reduced to real suffering, to hell, only when two ages, two cultures and religions overlap.
Hermann Hesse -
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
Baltasar Gracian -
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
William Hazlitt -
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.
William Hazlitt -
Let me learn now where Beauty is; I was born to know her mysteries . . .
Anne Spencer -
When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children - honored as the jewelry of God only by them - when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.
Thomas de Quincey -
Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
Soren Kierkegaard -
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Oscar Wilde -
Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. Forster -
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Kahlil Gibran -
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor Hugo -
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
Ovid -
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
Alice Walker -
The most precious things in life are not those you get for money.
Albert Einstein -
I don't think I'm beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I just see me - and, I'm pretty used to me.
Melanie Griffith -
Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.
Albert Einstein -
Civilization...is a matter of imponderables, of delight in the thins of the mind, of love of beauty, of honor, grace, courtesy, delicate feeling. Where imponderables, are things of first importance, there is the height of civilization, and, if at the same time, the power of art exists unimpaired, human life has reached a level seldom attained and very seldom surpassed.
Edith Hamilton -
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell