Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

Best Quotes about Beauty

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

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

Hubbard, Kin

Beauty rests on necessities.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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

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

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Baudelaire, Charles

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

Berry, Halle

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

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

Dante Alighieri

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

Banks, Tyra

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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

12.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Blessington, Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of

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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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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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

Anne Frank

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

22.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

Horace

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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 real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Porter, Katherine Anne

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

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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

29.

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

Scott Westerfeld

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Beauty is not caused. It is.

Dickinson, Emily

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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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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

Camus, Albert

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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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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 a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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

Morley, Christopher

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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 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 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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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

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The line of beauty is the line of perfect economy.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, 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 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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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin

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

Fuller, R. Buckminster

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

Gibran, Kahlil