Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Ruskin, John

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

Benjamin, Walter

The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.

Teale, Edwin Way

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

Immermann

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

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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

Lubbock, Sir John

In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships himself in it. Man believes that the world itself is filled with beauty --he forgets that it is he who has created it. He alone has bestowed beauty upon the world --alas! only a very human, an all too human, beauty.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sackville-West, Vita

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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

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Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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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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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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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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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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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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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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

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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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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Augustine, St.

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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Morley, Christopher

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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

30.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Banks, Tyra

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Anouilh, Jean

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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

Berry, Halle

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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

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Breton, Andre

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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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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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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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Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Pindar

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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

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Dante Alighieri

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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

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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.