Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

- Nibley, Hugh

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Bejar, Hada

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

Louie Schwartzberg

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

Huxley, Aldous

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

Hubbard, Kin

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)

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

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

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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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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Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

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The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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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

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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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Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Cheryl Tiegs

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

Philips, Ambrose

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

Immermann

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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

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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges

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

Anne Frank

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

Andre, Father

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

Scott Westerfeld

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

Dante Alighieri

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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 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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Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Aristotle

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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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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

L'Enclos, Ninon De

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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

Bovee, Christian Nevell

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

Spenser, Edmund

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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

O'Hara, Frank

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Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Proverb, Portuguese

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Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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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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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Morley, Christopher

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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