Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Beauty

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

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

Anne Frank

The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage; its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.

Wolf, Naomi

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

Huxley, Aldous

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

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Fuller, R. Buckminster

A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

Gracian, Baltasar

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 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

11.

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

Aristotle

12.

A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

13.

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

Marlowe, Christopher

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

Halifax, Edward F.

15.

Eye contact is the best accessory.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

19.

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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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

25.

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

Sappho

26.

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

Spenser, Edmund

27.

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

Kotomichi

28.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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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

34.

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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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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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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

Louie Schwartzberg

40.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?

Kerr, Jean

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Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

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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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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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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 beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

48.

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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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

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

Benjamin, Walter