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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank (1929 - 1945), Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
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 (1947 - ), O Magazine, May 2004
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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 (1891 - 1980)
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
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 (1912 - 1992)
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 (1776 - 1837)
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 (121 AD - 180 AD), Meditations
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to
solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I
know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983)
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, Falling From Fire
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Francis Bacon
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There is in true beauty something which vulgar souls cannot admire.
- William Congreve
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...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the
lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the
point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the
lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal
aesthetic standard is liable to be modified.
- Havelock Ellis
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The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to
a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well and harmoniously
developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes,
grace and animation of carriage- all these things which are essential to beauty
are the conditions of health.
- Havelock Ellis
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or
we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beauty is not diminished by being shared.
- Robert Heinlein
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself, and asks nothing
beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by
praise.
- Marcus Aurelius
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched -
they must be felt with the heart.
~Hellen Keller ~
Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind,
he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty,
but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality),
and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be
immortal, if mortal man may."
N.B.: This famous aphorism is often misquoted, "Beauty is in the eye of the
beholder."
~Plato ~
"The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human
cerebrum."
~Alexis Carrel ~
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or
we find it not.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.
~Anonymous ~
Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the
Spring when it is gone.
~Roy R. Gilson ~
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture
every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of
the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of
all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no
longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are
closed.
~Albert Einstein ~
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. 121-180 A.D.
Aristotle called beauty "the gift of God;", Socrates called it "a short-lived
tyranny;"
Theophrastus, "a silent deceit;" Theocritus, "an ivory mischief;" Carneades, "a
sovereignty which stood in need of no guards."
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is
no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
~Jawaharlal Nehru ~
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar
objects be as if they were not familiar.
~Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
Beauty
It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds.
- Aesop
Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the
right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in
plastic surgery.
- Andy Warhol
The beauty of life, is that you don't have to be modernly beautiful to live it.
- C.S. Lewis
I hadn't read Charlotte's Web in years. I was overdue. Overdue for so many things
that didn't involve guns or killing people.
- Cerulean Sins, "Laurell K. Hamilton" ( $ )
There is no such thing as beauty, especially in the human face. So many women that
I'm told are beautiful...hell it's like looking at a soup bowl
- Charles Bukowski
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of
beauty
- Christopher Morley
To me the most important thing is the sense of going on. You know how beautiful
things are when you're traveling.
- Edward Hopper
I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked
and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out.
But that was so long ago.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Francis Bacon
The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the
devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.
- Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
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.
- Georges Bataille
The best and most beautiful thing in life cannot be seen, not touched, but are
felt in the heart.
- Hellen Keller
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a
deep beauty-a sunken beauty.
- Jean Genet
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear
of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
- Jim Morrison
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
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless;
peacocks and lilies, for example.
- John Ruskin
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't
need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.
- Katharine Hepburn
Mute icons are the only kind of beauty we find acceptable today.
- Mark Rothko
The critic is he who can translate into a new manner or a new material his
impression of beautiful things. The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a
mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are
corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings
in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the
elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
- Oscar Wilde
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us,
or we find it not.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
[...] beauty, which, in relation to actions, as we have seen, comes unsought, and
comes because it is unsought [...]
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which
exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of
many extremes.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Beauty is not based on how attractive we are to everybody else, but how
attractive we are to ourselves, for one cannot think other people think they are
full of beauty unless they know they are beautiful too."
Submitted by Lindsie
"Only God's creations can compare to the beauty that I see in you! My love for you
is infinite, without limits."
Source Unknown
Submitted by Jeanne
"No one realizes the beauty of love, until you're caught in it."
Submitted by Jake
"A man's love cannot be satisfied by beauty alone; you're more than beautiful and
that's why I love you!"
Laurencio
Submitted by Faye
"What you feel is what you are and what you are is beautiful."
Goo Goo Dolls
Submitted by Melissa
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a
beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.
Bertrand Russell
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without
zest.
Christian Dior
The reason that the all American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see
better than he can think
Farrah Fawcett-Majors
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka
A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning,
nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her
great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty
Friedrich Nietzsche
Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
- The Peter Principle
Laurence Peter
The hero of my tale - whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried
to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful - is Truth
(Sevastopol in May)
Leo Tolstoy
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly
alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must
hunger after them.
- George Eliot
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Time may be a great healer, but it's also a lousy beautician.
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When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how
to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.
- Horace
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
- George Brossin M�r�
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of
beauty.
- Christopher Morley
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There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
- Countess of Blessington
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Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
- Charles Reade
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Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any
sense.
- Kin Hubbard
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Beauty is not caused. It is.
- Emily Dickinson
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Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
- Johann von Schiller
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Beauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has
been refused.
- Edward Gibbon
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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.
- Benedict Spinoza
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Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
- Serge Gainsbourg
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I'm not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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She was not pretty, but she might have been handsome if somebody had kept telling
her that she was pretty.
- J.B. Priestly
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
- George Bancroft
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If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in
your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful.
- William Morris
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous
buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.
- Langston Hughes
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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and
don't notice it.
- Alice Walker
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In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted,
bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.
- Alice Walker
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When I look at myself, I am so beautiful I scream with joy!
- Maria Montez
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The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
- Margaret Bourke-White
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The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human
cerebrum.
- Alexis Carrel
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One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a
few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka
"Nothing is more beautiful than you wearing only the moonlight and my kisses."
Submitted by Kasexy
"If I were blind, within my heart I could still see the beauty that is you."
Submitted by Steve
"No one realizes the beauty of love, until you lose it."
Submitted by Jim Barry
The beauty of love is to look into your eyes, and see the love you feel for me, to
see the way you feel and the way you care, that is why I love you."
Submitted by Thom
"True beauty cannot be seen from the outside, it must be found within the soul of
your love."
Jack Roskam (NL) Submitted by Jack Roskam
"Beauty can be very deceiving to the eye, so love because they bring joy and
happiness into your life."
Submitted by Stephanie
"Did my heart love 'til now? Foreswear its sight--for I never saw true beauty 'til
this night."
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet Submitted by Melissa Nicole
Albert Einstein:
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental
emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein:
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time
and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated
from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a
kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for
a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole
of nature in its beauty.
Anais Nin:
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There
is always more mystery.
Buckminster Fuller:
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how
to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
Candace Bergen:
People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of
expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but
actually it sets you apart.
Chinese proverb:
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one,
and a lily with the other.
Georgia O'Keeffe:
I said to myself -- I'll paint what I see -- what the flower is to me but I'll
paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it -- I will
make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.
Helen Keller:
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ...
but are felt in the heart.
Henry Miller:
The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it
becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Jean Kerr:
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep
enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
John Keats:
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Ruskin:
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless;
peacocks and lilies, for example.
Kahlil Gibran:
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Kalidasa:
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
Kenneth Patton:
The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day.
Rachel Carson:
It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the
contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
Rachel Carson:
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will
endure as long as life lasts.
Sophia Loren:
Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think
you've got.
Virginia Woolf:
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting
the heart asunder.
Willa Cather:
Oh, this is the joy of the rose: / That it blows, / And goes.