Motivational Quotes

Beauty

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

- Baudelaire, Charles

Best Quotes about Beauty

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

Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

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

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Margaret Cho

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

Even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!

Delaney, Bessie

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

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for instance.

Ruskin, John

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To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Klee, Paul

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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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The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.

SeVigne, Marquise De

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

Anne Frank

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

Bejar, Hada

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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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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

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What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

Ann Radcliffe

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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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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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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

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Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.

Morley, Christopher

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

Anouilh, Jean

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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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We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

Teresa of Avila, St.

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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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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

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A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

Proverb, English

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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 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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Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Proverb, French

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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Wollstonecraft, Mary

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Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

Shakespeare, William

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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Socrates

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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Havelock Ellis

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

Philips, Ambrose

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Beauty is the still birth of suffering, every woman knows that.

Prager, Emily

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

Morley, Christopher

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Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

Allen, James

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Stendhal, Henri B.

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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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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

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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.