Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

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 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

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

Baudelaire, Charles

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

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

10.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

11.

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

Anne Frank

12.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

13.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

14.

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

Plotinus

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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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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 power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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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

19.

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Dillard, Annie

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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

21.

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

22.

The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.

Benjamin, Walter

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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you.

Eliot, George

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

Sappho

25.

Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Godard, Jean-Luc

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The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

27.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Margaret Cho

29.

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

Banks, Tyra

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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork -- reading, writing, thinking--can.

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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.

Baudelaire, Charles

32.

What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

33.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

35.

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

Aristotle

36.

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

Dante Alighieri

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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

40.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

41.

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

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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

44.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

45.

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

46.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

47.

The flowers anew, returning seasons bring! But beauty faded has no second spring.

Philips, Ambrose

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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Prager, Emily

49.

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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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