Beauty Quotes

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.

Hellen Kelle

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

Joseph Addison

The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process.

Barbara Colorose

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - - Making it possible to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Susan Sontag

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

Virginia

No matter how long we exist, we have our memories. Points in time which time itself cannot erase. Suffering may distort my backward glances, but even to suffering, some memories will yield nothing of ther beauty or their splendor. Rather they remain as hard as gems.

Anne Rice, "Blood and Gold".

If I should die, I have left no immortal work behind me - Nothing to make my friends proud of my memory - But I have loved the principle of beauty in all things, and if I had had time I would have made myself remembered.

John Keats, Letter to Fanny Brawne, Feb 1820 - Died 1 year late

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

Sir Francis Bacon

The beauty of daylight - Saving time is that it just makes everyone feel sunnier.

Edward Markey, quoted in Associated Press, July 22, 2005

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Swearing is like any other music... If it is not done well, if it is not done with a fine and discriminating art, and vitalized with gracious and heartborn feeling, it lacks beauty, it lacks charm, it lacks expression, it lacks nobleness, it lacks majesty...

David Gridley, Indiantown

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 are the center of your universe, and you can make anything happen.

Ashley Smith

As we grow oldthe beauty steals inward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Louisa May Alcot

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

Pearl Buck

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

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 within.

Elizabeth Kubler - Ross

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, Meditations

The most extensive computation known has been conducted over the last billion years on a planet - wide scale: it is the evolution of life. The power of this computation is illustrated by the complexity and beauty of its crowning achievement, the human brain.

David Rogers, Weather Prediction Using a Genetic Memory

Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness.

Vincent McNa

Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty.

Unknown

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

A bachelor never quite gets ove the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Helen Rowland

Never regard study as a duty, but as the 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 work belongs.

Albert Einstein

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 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. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein

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, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04

Examine each question in terms of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically expedient. 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

It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.

Marquis de Sade

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952

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

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know, and all ye need to know.

John Keats, -

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

Camille Paglia

When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less.

Prophet Mohammed

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

Alexis Carrel

Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for beingWhy thou wert there, O rival of the roseI never sought to ask, I never knewBut, in my simple ignorance supposeThe selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

D. H. Lawrence