Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

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

Benjamin, Walter

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

Kraus, Karl

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Proverb, Persian

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

Augustine, St.

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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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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; if false, that it lessens. There is therefore, something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason, and is not the mere creation of fancy.

Greville, Lord

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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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Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. [Song Of Solomon 4:1]

Bible

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

Brown, Helen Gurley

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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 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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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Navajo, Edward A.

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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

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Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Lubbock, Sir John

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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

Aristotle

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Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Halifax, Edward F.

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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Plotinus

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

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

Philips, Ambrose

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What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.