| Virginia Woolf
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one
of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Cliff Richard
Once in a lifetime a really beautiful song comes along ...
Until it does, I'd like to do this one.
Chazal
The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of
their dreams.
Lucille S. Harper
Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.
Unknown
Beauty is not real. Beauty only exists in perception.
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the
mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we
must carry it with us or we find it not.
A.Zee
Let us worry about beauty first, and truth will take care of
itself.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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.
Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace
Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize
it.
D. H. Lawrence Assorted Articles
Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed
pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt,
a glow or a communicated sense of fineness. What ails us is
that our sense of beauty is so bruised and blunted, we miss
all the best.
George MacDonald
Beauty and sadness always go together.
Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth
Upon the earth without a meet alloy.
David Hume
("Of the Standard of Taste" Four Dissertations)
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely
in the mind which contemplates them.
Khalil Gibran, (1883 - 1931)
Beauty is not in the face;
beauty is a light in the heart.
Roseanne
Beauty comes in all sizes
-- not just size 5.
Peter's Almanac
Always remember that true beauty comes from within
-- from
within bottles, jars, compacts, and tubes.
Ivan Panin
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Oscar Hammerstein
I know the world is filled with troubles and many
injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I
think it is just as important to sing about beautiful
mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write
anything without hope in it.
Jimmy Carter
It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on
earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's
gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here
forever.
Anonymous
It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which
captures your heart.
Roy R. Gilson
Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it
is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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.
Havelock Ellis
["Impressions and Comments" (1914)]
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
Anton Chekhov ["Uncle Vanya" (1897)]
Sonya: No! No! When a woman isn't beautiful, people tell
her. "You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.
Alice Walker
In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect.
Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're
still beautiful.
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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
within.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world,
and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If eyes were made for seeing, then Beauty is it's own excuse
for being.
Louis Orr
(speech to the American Medical Association,
6/6/60)
Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset
to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula.
Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of
beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific
mastery of nature.
Henry King
Then we shall rise and view ourselves with clearer eyes in
that calm region where no night can hide us from each
other's sight.
Sophia Loren
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes.
It is not something physical.
Nadine Gordimer
The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness
increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
Jawaharlal Nehru
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.
Jean Anouilh
Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt
of God.
Marcus Aurelius
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.
John Constable
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.
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
Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but,
until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
John Kenneth Galbraith
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That
precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
John Keats
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into
nothingness.
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?
Fran Lebowitz
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the
belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the
true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places
on your body where this is a possibility, you are not
attractive--you are leaking.
W. Somerset Maugham
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is
really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume
of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.
Edgar Allen Poe
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development,
invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Plato, Symposium
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.
Ernest Renan
Man makes holy what he believes, as he makes beautiful what
he loves.
Katherine Anne Porter
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.
John Ruskin
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.
George Sand
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.
William Shakespeare
To me, fair friend, you never can be old
For as you were when first your eye I eyed, Such seems your
beauty still.
William Shakespeare
Shall I
compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's
lease hath all too short a date.
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks
at it when it has been in the house three days?
John Greenleaf Whittier
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors
all are fast.
David McArthur and Bruce McArthur, The Intelligent Heart
Most of us have had moments in childhood
when we touched the divine presence. We did not think it
extraordinary because it wasn't; it was just a beautiful
moment filled with love. In those simple moments our hearts
were alive, and we saw the poignant beauty of life vividly
with wonder and appreciation.
Voltaire
It is not sufficient to see and to know
the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. |
