Motivational Quotes

Beauty

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Louie Schwartzberg

People often say that'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,'and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

My work always tried to unite the true with the beautiful; but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.

Wey, Hermann

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

Sand, George

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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.

Frye, Northrop

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Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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.

Paglia, Camille

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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

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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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.

Camus, Albert

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

Keats, John

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due -- she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Forster, Edward M.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Howard, Vernon

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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

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Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Shakespeare, William

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

Dante Alighieri

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Anne Frank

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My heart that was rapt away by the wild cherry blossoms -- will it return to my body when they scatter?

Kotomichi

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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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.

Porter, Katherine Anne

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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A beautiful form is better than a beautiful face; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest of the fine arts.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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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

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Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.

Nathan, Robert

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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Sappho

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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.

Arnim, Mary

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Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Spenser, Edmund

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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head. [On her beauty pageant days]

Berry, Halle

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There's something almost perfect in the ugly duckling syndrome. Because a sensitivity is tattooed on a part of you no one else can see but can somehow guess is there.

Stephanie Klein

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Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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

Ruskin, John

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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.

Klee, Paul

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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.

Bataille, Georges

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Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Bierce, Ambrose