Beauty Quotes
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
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
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.Maya Angelou
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.John Donne
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
If there is light in the soul, There will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, There will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, There will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, There will be peace in the world.Chinese Prove
Beauty holds more worth than gold.Robert Jordan, The Wheel of Time
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.Solomon, King of Israel, The Bible Proverbs 31: 30
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
Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.Albert Einstein
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.Unknown
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
It was a love of the air and sky and flying, the lure of adventure, the appreciation of beauty. It lay beyond the descriptive words of men - where immortality is touched through danger, where life meets death on equal plane where man is more than man, and existence both supreme and valueless at the same time.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
As for everything else, so for mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.Arthur Cayley
I slept and dreamed that life was beauty. I awoke - - And found that life was duty.Ellen Stugis Hoope
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.Michelangelo Buonarroti
The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.Barbara Colorose
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.Virginia
When the people of the world all know beauty as beauty, There arises the recognition of ugliness. When they all know the good as good, There arises the recognition of evil.Lao - Tzu, The Way of Lao - Tzu
Do not read beauty magazines. They only make you feel ugly.Mary Schmich
It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.Anne Bronte, Agnes Grey
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.Upham
A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.Helen Rowland
Beauty fades; dumb is forever.Judge Judy, From her book "Beauty fades; dumb is forever".
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire...Socrates, Quoted in: Plato, Phaedrus.
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age. As your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.Phyllis Dille
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Rhodora".
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.Confucius
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.Miguel de Unamuno
Beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.Petrarch, De Remedies
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.Jelaluddin Rumi
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.George Santayana
Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.George Eliot, "Middlemarch", Book I, ch. 1