Quotes About Beauty
They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but often beauty is only skin deep. It’s cliche, but it’s what’s on the inside that makes someone attractive. Looks fade so check out the collection of wise and insightful inner beauty quotes below.
“Flowers that are offered for the dead, do not know the difference of where their beauty will be placed, they do not say, 'This is not a palace' or 'This is not a garden'; they just are. They are just beautiful, without giving regards to whether they are placed on a grave or in a castle. Mar 30, 2020 - Explore Natural Bliss Body Studio's board 'Spa quotes' on Pinterest. See more ideas about massage quotes, massage marketing, spa quotes.
When you see a vibrant flower or a peacock majestically strutting his colorful plumes, revere the beauty of nature. Beauty is everywhere. Appreciate the beauty around you while beauty is still in its prime. Here are some famous quotes on beauty to inspire you to admire the beauty around you. Regardless of what your personal journey with makeup has entailed, there are some makeup quotes that are simply universal. 1.“You can be a woman who wants to look good and still stand up for the equality of women.”.
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It's [beauty] a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.
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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
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The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
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The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is
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Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.
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That's the thing about inner beauty: Unlike Physical beauty, which grabs the spotlight for itself, inner beauty shines on everyone, catching them, holding then in its embrace, making them more beautiful too.
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
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Beauty...when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly lies to the bone. Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own! Create and cultivate Inner Beauty that never fades away but grows and matures with Time!
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What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside'
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Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It is about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and most importantly a beautiful soul.
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As if you were on fire from within. The moon lives in the lining of your skin.
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For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.
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Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
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Outer beauty is a gift. Inner beauty is an accomplishment.
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Do all the good you can & create a life that feels good on the inside,not one that just looks good on the outside. It is inner beauty which matters most.
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Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
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Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.
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Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.
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You are not born with beauty, your beauty is created by who you are. Your inner beauty is more important than how people see you on the outside.
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Outer beauty pleases the EYE. Inner beauty captivates the HEART.
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Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are.
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Inner beauty radiates from within, and there's nothing more beautiful than when a woman feels beautiful on the inside.
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Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big heart and an open mind and a spectacular spleen.
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Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God's sight.
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I believe inner beauty is beauty in its truest form. When we nurture ourselves, it brings an inevitable, positive transformation.
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Focus on your inner beauty. Outer beauty will draw people to you, inner beauty will keep them in your presence.
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Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.
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Outer beauty turns the head, but inner beauty turns the heart.
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Angels only care about what you look like on the inside. A pure heart is the vessel that contains a soul's true beauty.
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Beauty shouldn't be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It's about knowing that someone else's definition of pretty has no hold over you.
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Beauty is not something you buy; instead, beauty is what lies within.
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Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
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Beauty pleases the eyes only; Sweetness of disposition charms the soul.
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When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the luster of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
Short Inspirational Quotes About Beauty
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There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.
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True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.
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If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside, then on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist.
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Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you.
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Character develops in stream of struggle and adversity. Character is foundation of your inner beauty which reflects in your personality.
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Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.
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Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.
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Create a beautiful inside and you will look beautiful on the outside.
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A pure heart is superlatively rare and even more attractive.
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Your looks don't make you pretty, it's the person inside who makes you pretty!
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Beauty is known only by one who has known the inner beauty, one who has known the inner flower opening. Then whenever a flower is seen, it reminds you of your inner beauty.
Short Beautiful Quotes
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Only one thing I expect from all of you: to be yourself, to discover your inner beauty, your purity of consciousness, your hidden splendor- and spread it to as many people as possible.
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Physical beauty and ugliness is not very important. The real thing is the inner.
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When something starts flowing from within you, some grace, then the outer form is just put aside.
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The outer then looks only a pale reflection of the inner. The inner becomes more real and the outer becomes just a shadow.
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Don't practice for cosmetic beauty, practice for cosmic beauty. Practice for inner beauty and inner light.
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All seem a little awkward and not to have an inner beauty we usually expect from truth. But sometimes the truth is discovered first and the beauty or 'necessity' of the truth seen only later.
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When a woman invests more in her outer beauty than inner beauty, she is focusing on her brand, and not quality.
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Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.
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The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she knows.
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Inner beauty will bring out outer beauty if you balance your Yin and Yang and your five elements, which are wood, fire, earth, metal, and water.
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The pursuit of inner beauty, health and balance is endlessly rewarding.
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Find out what your inner strengths are. Once you find out what your inner strengths are, then you'll be able to find inner beauty.
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Nothing in the whole world is so athirst for beauty as the soul, nor is there anything to which beauty clings so readily.
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Of course, if the outer appearance is as beautiful as the inner that's a bonus, for as long as it lasts.
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Inner beauty can be described as something pleasant, experienced through one's character rather by appearance.
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If we can see and value the inner beauty of a person, it would be a charisma that could bring us happiness and satisfaction, not to mention the happiness we would give to others, simply because outer beauty doesn't last for life. Inner beauty does.
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Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen, goodness beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.
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What is important is to have the ability to respect other people's beliefs, value their inner beauty, and treat everyone the way we wish to be treated.
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May you find God's eternal beauty in you. May you see this sacred beauty that He sees in you! And may this sacred beauty that is in you transform every part of you forever.
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As far as the Bible goes, if you want real beauty that lasts, go for the beauty that's within. That kind doesn't fade with age or doesn't dry up with lack of moisturizer.
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Don't be concerned about the outward beauty that depends on jewelry, or beautiful clothes, or hair arrangement. Be beautiful inside, in your hearts, with a lasting charm of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is so precious to God. That kind of deep beauty was seen in the saintly women of old.
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Treating others with gentleness is not just about their needs,; it's about yours as a woman of beauty.
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No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
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There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.
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As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.
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Some of the most beautiful things worth having in your life come wrapped in a crown of thorns.
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All seem a little awkward and not to have an inner beauty we usually expect from truth. But sometimes the truth is discovered first and the beauty or 'necessity' of the truth seen only later.
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Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.
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BEAUTY.—A sun which dwells in the souls of all... ~'A Chapter of Definitions,' Daily Crescent, 1848 June 23rd
No churlish moralist ever uttered a falser maxim than that 'Beauty is but skin deep.' Why Beauty is so deep that nobody has ever got to the bottom of it. ~T.C. Henley, 'Beauty,' A Handful of Paper Shavings, 1861
Beauty is a nectar which intoxicates the soul. ~T.C. Henley, 'Beauty,' 1851
Beauty is ordained by nature to excite love... ~Vicesimus Knox (1752–1821), Winter Evenings, 'Evening LXXIV: Of an Excessive Attachment to the World'
Beauty! what can be said of it? what is it? I look around, to see some object specially beautiful, on which to expend my panegyrics. There is the deep fathomless azure above me; there is the sea, the wild, open, careering ocean; there is that bright clear eye which ever lights my solitude; there is a fair girl, a beautiful boy; there are the stars looking down from heaven; there is beauty in the human countenance, beauty in looks, beauty in thoughts, beauty in actions. What shall I say! I am bewildered; beauty overwhelms me. I am dumb, who would emulate the oratory of an archangel. I am lost in the magnitude of my theme... ~T.C. Henley, 'Beauty,' 1851
What is really beautiful needs no adorning. We do not grind down the pearl upon a polishing stone. ~Sataka, quoted in Maturin M. Ballou, Edge-Tools of Speech, 1886
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens — that letting go — you let go because you can. The world will always be there — while you sleep it will be there — when you wake it will be there as well. So you can sleep and there is reason to wake. A dead hydrangea is as intricate and lovely as one in bloom. Bleak sky is as seductive as sunshine, miniature orange trees without blossom or fruit are not defective; they are that. ~Toni Morrison, Tar Baby, 1981
Beauty unites all things, links together flower and star, with chains more certain than those of reason. The poet, the artist, thus finds the clue which guides them in their pilgrimage throughout the world. ~Henry James Slack (1818–1896), The Ministry of the Beautiful, 1850
Madame, beauty is always queen, and the whole world her empire. ~Joseph II, to Jeanne Bécu, Countess du Barry, at Versailles['La beauté est toujours reine.'
The criterion of true beauty is that it increases on examination; of false, that it lessens. ~Fulke Greville (1554–1628)
Beauty is man's voucher of immorality. ~T.C. Henley, 'Beauty,' 1851
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. This natural beauty-hunger is made manifest in the little window-sill gardens of the poor, though perhaps only a geranium slip in a broken cup, as well as in the carefully tended rose and lily gardens of the rich, the thousands of spacious city parks and botanical gardens, and in our magnificent National parks — the Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia, etc. — Nature's sublime wonderlands, the admiration and joy of the world. ~John Muir, The Yosemite
[B]eauty is given to remind us that the soul should be kept as fair and perfect in its proportions as the temple in which it dwells. ~Lydia Maria Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
Beauty, its perception, its feeling, to bathe and revel in beauty, is the most complete human delight of which man is capable; and though some have been marred in this pure faculty of enjoyment, by rough contact with a host of unhandsome beings and circumstances, yet sometimes a ray of beauty will pierce to their benighted heart, and send a thrill of joy through their whole being. The man will sometimes catch a faint glimpse of that divinity, and then again be lost in the vortex of utilitarianism. ~T.C. Henley, 'Beauty,' 1851
But Beauty is a beam from Heaven,
That dazzles blind our reason.
~Thomas Campbell, 'Senex's Soliloquy on His Youthful Idol,' 1835
In the Phædrus of Plato, we find this petition in the mouth of Socrates: 'O gracious Pan! and ye other gods who preside over this place! grant that I may be beautiful within; and that those external things, which I have, may be such as may best agree with a right internal disposition of mind; and that I may account him to be rich, who is wise and just.' ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'Prayers,' in The Dial, July 1842[Quoted Socrates by J.K. Hoyt and Anna L. Ward, 1881, as: 'I pray thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.'
Man, she looked as if she'd just been thrown off the crummiest freight train in the world. Yet in spite of this I got the impression of beauty, not the beauty of a movie actress, mind you, or the beauty you dream about when you're with your wife, but a natural beauty, a beauty that's almost homely because it's so real. ~Martin Goldsmith & Martin Mooney, Detour, 1945, spoken by the character Al Roberts
Beauty is but a flower,
Which wrinkles will devour...
~Thomas Nashe (c.1564–c.1601), Summer's Last Will and Testament, c.1592
Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness. ~The Earl of Beaconsfield (Benjamin Disraeli, 1804–1881), Lothair
No beauty is lost. You get to see the real face of it after the blossoms have fallen off the tree. That's why I would rather see the face of a beautiful woman than a pretty girl.
Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know, they have lost something and picked up something else.
~Henry Rollins, Smile, You're Traveling (Black Coffee Blues Part 3), 2000
She was just sixteen, and not yet beautiful. She was too young for beauty. Her form was not developed; she would probably gain two or three inches in height; and her face, though exquisitely modelled, wanted the refining which comes either from a multitude of complex emotions or is given at once by some great heart-sorrow. ~Amelia E. Huddleston Barr, A Rose of a Hundred Leaves: A Love Story, 1891
If you feel beautiful, then you are. Even if you don't, you still are. ~Terri Guillemets
Beauty is the true meaning of poetry. But after all nothing is said; and a thinker, a sensitive mind, will extract more from the simple word itself than can be embodied in a hundred varnished phrases. ~T.C. Henley, 'Beauty,' 1851
Sad! True, I spoke of lovely, beauteous things;
Beauty and sadness always go together.
Nature thought Beauty too rich to go forth
Upon the Earth without a meet alloy.
If Beauty had been meant to wed with gladness,
Poets had never needed this dream-life;
Each blessed man had but to look beside him,
And be more blest. How easily could God
Have made our life one consciousness of joy!
It is denied us...
~George MacDonald, Within and Without: A Dramatic Poem, 1855[Lord Seaford
We try to achieve beauty by covering up all traces of age and end up looking like we tried to achieve youth by covering up all traces of beauty. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. ~Edgar A. Poe, 'The Philosophy of Composition,' Graham's Magazine, April 1846
The misconception with a lot of girls is that it takes two to three hours to be beautiful. I always tell girls allow yourself 30 minutes so that you can really enjoy the process, so that you can get to know you in the morning before the world gets to know you. ~Tracy Balan, Girlfriend Intervention, 'Sam, Trapped in Teen Fantasy World' (season 1, episode 3), original airdate 2014 September 10th
It is beauty that begins to please, and tenderness that completes the charm. ~Bernard Le Bovier, sieur de Fontenelle (1657–1757), quoted in A Thousand Flashes of French Wit, Wisdom, and Wickedness, collected and translated by J. De Finod, 1180
Beauty is strangely various. There is the beauty of light and joy and strength exulting; but there is also the beauty of shade, of sorrow and sadness, and of humility oppressed. ~Arnold Bennett (1867–1931)
And I love beauty, all kinds of beauty, and am renewed by it constantly. Woods, and walks, and rivers, and lakes, and hills; pictures, and cathedrals, and old villages, falling into ruin gracefully and sweetly; music; children... the gallant, the courageous, the unselfish. All these things bring me delight, very real, very vivid. ~Dorothy Thompson, letter to Rose Wilder Lane, 1921, edited by William V. Holtz
It is a rare woman who can overcome her desire to remain pretty and allow herself to become beautiful. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
Am I afraid to be beautiful? Afraid to claim grace as my own?
I will take away the look of ashes, and restore the look of dawn.
~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), 'A Soul's Faring: XVI,' A Soul's Faring, 1921
You never look at anything beautiful and holy, or think a pure and noble thought, without being ever after a larger soul. ~Frederick Lynch
Some moments are so beautiful that time stands still. ~Keith Wynn, @untamed__dreamer, Instagram post, 2019
Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away, beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day. ~Mike Dolan, @HawaiianLife
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful. Beauty is God's hand-writing—a way-side sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him, the fountain of all loveliness, and drink it in, simply and earnestly, with all your eyes; it is a charmed draught, a cup of blessing. ~Parson Lot (Charles Kingsley), 'The National Gallery.—No. I.' in Politics for the People, 1848 May 6th
Beauty intoxicates the eyes, as wine does the body; both are morally fatal if indulged. ~John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887), quoted in Maturin M. Ballou, Edge-Tools of Speech, 1886
Beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness. ~Dr. SunWolf, professorsunwolf.com
Multitudes of people are beauty-blind to the outdoor pictures. I doubt if one in a hundred begins to take in the beauty visible on even a short walk in city or country. ~Delia Lyman Porter, 'The Beauty-Blind,' An Anti-Worry Recipe and Other Stories, 1905
For most of us, knowledge of our world comes largely through sight, yet we look about with such unseeing eyes that we are partially blind. One way to open your eyes to unnoticed beauty is to ask yourself, 'What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?'
I remember a summer night when such a thought came to me strongly. It was a clear night without a moon. With a friend, I went out on a flat headland that is almost a tiny island, being all but surrounded by the waters of the bay. There the horizons are remote and distant rims on the edge of space. We lay and looked up at the sky and the millions of stars that blazed in darkness.... I have never seen them more beautiful: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. Once or twice a meteor burned its way into the earth's atmosphere.
It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century or even once in a human generation, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be seen many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night perhaps they will never see it. ~Rachel Carson, 'Help Your Child to Wonder,' November 1956
I bring you beauty whose only use is beauty —
You cannot ride it, you cannot hitch it to your cart like mares.
It soars and sings — you cannot harvest it for your garner, nor sell it in the mart —
There is no market quotation on gossamer wings and ecstasy.
~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), 'Much in a Basket: V,' At the Roots of Grasses, 1923
Beauty is a delightful prejudice. ~Theocritus, quoted in Edward Parsons Day, Day's Collacon, 1884
No spring nor summer's beauty hath such grace
As I have seen in one Autumnal face....
~John Donne, 'Elegy IX: The Autumnal'
Beauty is the soul striving to make itself visible. ~T.C. Henley, 'Beauty,' 1851
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible. ~Marie Dubsky, Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), translated by Mrs Annis Lee Wister, 1882
The eternal war — nature's attempt to make every woman beautiful, society's insistence that she remain young and pretty. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com [Makes me think of Annie Lennox's 1992 cover of Dubin & Warren's 1933 'Keep Young and Beautiful.'
I have erred so unremittingly in my fallacious conception of utility. I will look upon the rose gardens whose use is beauty.... I knew that I must plant my fields to save my body, but did I not know that I must plant my rose gardens to save my soul? ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), 'A Soul's Faring: XVIII,' A Soul's Faring, 1921
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful. ~Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com
A glance, that, into the deepest deep of Beauty. 'The lilies of the field,'—dressed finer than earthly princes, springing-up there in the humble furrow-field; a beautiful eye looking-out on you, from the great inner Sea of Beauty! How could the rude Earth make these if her Essence, rugged as she looks and is, were not inwardly Beauty? ~Thomas Carlyle, 'The Hero as Poet,' lecture, 1840
...[K]now that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful. A severed hand
Is an ugly thing, and man dissevered from the earth and stars and his history... for contemplation or in fact...
Often appears atrociously ugly. Integrity is wholeness, the greatest beauty is
Organic wholeness, the wholeness of life and things, the divine beauty of the universe....
~Robinson Jeffers, from 'The Answer'
Beauty is visible music.... ~T.C. Henley, 'Beauty,' A Handful of Paper Shavings, 1861
I cannot dream beauty and express ugliness...
The inner rapture, like the fine gold feeling of the Nebulæ, must express itself in stars.
I who think beauty must come with it exuding from me like a fragrant nimbus.
If I conceive beauty, I must walk in loveliness.
If I conceive twilights, I must manifest in threnodies, and the jasmine's breath, with a silver, moonswept sheen.
~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), 'A Soul's Faring: LX,' A Soul's Faring, 1921
There are moments of beauty so intense that they will touch you for life. ~Dr. SunWolf, 2015 tweet, professorsunwolf.com
Beauty deceives women in making them establish on an ephemeral power the pretensions of a whole life. ~Bignicout, quoted in Maturin M. Ballou, Pearls of Thought, 1881
Beauty is the spirit of Nature peering through the gloom of sin.... Beauty is Nature's memory of Eden. ~T.C. Henley, 'Beauty,' A Handful of Paper Shavings, 1861
[B]eauty is all-healing.... I will come with great draughts of remedy for my spirit! Turn on the roses!... I am body-ill from the endless flow of life's drab-grey! ~Muriel Strode (1875–1964), 'A Soul's Faring: XIX,' A Soul's Faring, 1921
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you will never walk alone...
~Sam Levenson, In One Era and Out the Other, 1973
Beauty is the shadow of God... ~T.C. Henley, 'Beauty,' 1851
Love beauty — it is the shadow of God over the universe. ~Gabriela Mistral (1889–1957), 'Decálogo del Artista,' translated from Spanish
It is a poem of pain to feel the urge toward the unfolding of the wings of beauty. It is a song of ecstasy to release it. ~Muriel Strode, interview with Ruth Snyder, 'Poetess Uses Riches Oil Gave Her To Make Cinderellas Princesses,' The Evening World, 1923 June 18th
Beauty… when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart. ~Nate Dircks
In all natural things can be discovered some faint trace of beauty. ~T.C. Henley, 'Beauty,' 1851
I was brought up to believe beauty is not worth thinking about, what's important is your soul, your mind—you don't want to be a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor, We Are Still Married: Stories and Letters, 1990 edition, Part 2 — The Lake, 'Who Do You Think You Are?'
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see. ~George W. Russell
I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. ~Author unknown
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ~Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ~Khalil Gibran
Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things. ~Tertullian
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. ~Ninon de L'Enclos
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty — they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 'The Rhodora'
Close your eyes and see the beauty. ~Author unknown
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ~Leo Tolstoy
In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. ~Christopher Morley
Release the beauty in you in whatever way you see fit.... We are elementally beautiful. In the hurry and strife of life we have grown away from the real thing. It just has to be restored to us. We must brush the ashes off and put roses in our hair. ~Muriel Strode, interview with Ruth Snyder, 'Poetess Uses Riches Oil Gave Her To Make Cinderellas Princesses,' The Evening World, 1923 June 18th
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. ~Simone Weil
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! ~Logan Pearsall Smith
The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. ~Author unknown
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese proverb
I don't like standard beauty — there is no beauty without strangeness. ~Karl Lagerfeld
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. ~G.K. Chesterton
Beauty and folly are sisters. ~German proverb
Beauty and folly are generally companions. ~Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish
May she be granted beauty and yet not
Beauty to make a stranger’s eye distraught,
Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufficient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend....
~William Butler Yeats, 'A Prayer for my Daughter'
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. ~Confucius
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
Don't let insecurity ruin the beauty you were born with. ~Author unknown
Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. ~George Eliot
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it. ~Mary Oliver
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. ~Johann von Goethe
A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. ~Karl Kraus
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light. ~John Ruskin
Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world. ~Florenz Ziegfeld
Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
~Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella
Beauty without grace is a hook without a bait. ~Ninon de l'Enclos
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. ~John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 1851
Beauty is the promise of happiness. ~Stendhal
Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick. ~Gwyneth Paltrow
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books. ~Walt Whitman
Men and women make their own beauty or their own ugliness. Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton speaks in one of his novels of a man 'who was uglier than he had any business to be;' and, if we could but read it, every human being carries his life in his face, and is good-looking or the reverse as that life has been good or evil. On our features the fine chisels of thought and emotion are eternally at work. ~Alexander Smith, 'An Essay on an Old Subject'
Beauty doesn't have to be about anything. What's a vase about? What's a sunset or a flower about? What, for that matter, is Mozart's Twenty-third Piano Concerto about? ~Douglas Adams
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. ~Marie Stopes
Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption. ~Henry David Thoreau, journal, 1852 June 11th
Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. ~Pablo Picasso
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 Snake Has All the Lines
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. ~Saint Augustine
There is no torture that a woman would not endure to enhance her beauty. ~Michel de Montaigne
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. ~Rosalind Russell
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness. ~Lady Blessington
The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. ~Yves Saint Laurent
No better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; no true beauty without the signature of these graces in the very countenance. ~John Ray
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. ~George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell
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