Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Kotomichi

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

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.

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

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

Kraus, Karl

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

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

Immermann

11.

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

Morley, Christopher

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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 have been many definitions of beauty in art. What is it? Beauty is what the untrained eyes consider abominable.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

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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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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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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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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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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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

Augustine, St.

21.

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

Benjamin, Walter

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I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de)

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Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

Huxley, Aldous

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

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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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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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

31.

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Teale, Edwin Way

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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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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 fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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

Andre, Father

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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 essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Louie Schwartzberg

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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

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How goodness heightens beauty!

More, Hannah

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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