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All the beauty of the spring went for happy men to think of all the increase of the year was for other eyes to mark. Not a sign of any sunrise for me from my fount of life
—  not a breath to stir the dead leaves fallen on my heart’s Spring.
It is rarely in the world's history that its ideal has been one of joy and beauty. The worship of pain has far more often dominated the world.
— Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Clearly my stunning beauty has clouded your mind." - Rose Hathaway
— Richelle Mead, Frostbite
She was so beautiful that it made my soul ache.
— Richelle Mead, The Fiery Heart
Love is beautiful." - Malcolm Fade
— Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
Certainly there were places of greater natural beauty—but Paris but UNNATURAL beauty, which was arguably better.' - The Runaway Queen (The Bane Chronicles, 2) by Cassandra Clare and Maureen Johnson
— Cassandra Clare, The Bane Chronicles
Beauty is the brightness of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When you choose to notice the little things, the world becomes a much more beautiful place. Find the beauty of the little things and the whole picture becomes a bit more magnificent.
— Avina Celeste
Generally the thunder-storms came in the afternoon, but once I saw one at sunrise, driving down the high mountain valleys toward us. It was a very beautiful and almost terrible sight; for the sun rose behind the storm, and shone through the gusty rifts, lighting the mountain-crests here and there, while the plain below lay shrouded in the lingering night. The angry, level rays edged the dark clouds with crimson, and turned the downpour into sheets of golden rain; in the valleys the glimmering mists were tinted every wild hue; and the remotest heavens were lit with flaming glory.
— Theodore Roosevelt, The Rough Riders
From sunrise to sunset to sunrise, there is a lifetime of beauty, charm and elegance.
— Sandeep N. Tripathi
You lost the ability to see beauty in others because your vision got clouded by someone who sold you a fantasy that no one could live up to.
— Karishma Magvani
Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee
— indonesia123
If we glorify God (not self) in everything we do then everything on earth will glorify God.
— indonesia123
My general feeling is that date make-up should be an honest advertisement for a potential relationship. Frankly, it’s easier for you that way. There’s no point labouring over lots of perfectly applied make-up if you are, in reality, a low-maintenance kind of girl who can’t possibly keep it up beyond the honeymoon period. Equally, it seems unwise to imply you’re someone who rolls out of bed and out to a Sunday farmer’s market all natural skin, flushed cheeks and a smidge of lip balm when your real life is spent in full coverage foundation and smoky eyes. Like any part of dating, it is always safer to be yourself because who can maintain a lie for long?
— Sali Hughes, Pretty Honest
Beauty and death, so closely knit together. This seems to be the central theme of my life.
— Jessica Khoury, Origin
Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!
— Milan Kundera, Immortality
But it was something else, too, that I wanted to extend: the taut and pleasant silence in the car, the stale heat raising vapours of leather. The warped image of myself in the side mirrors, so I caught only the quantity of hair, the freckled skin of my shoulder. I took on the shape of a girl.
— Emma Cline, The Girls
Why was "plain" a euphemism for "ugly," when the very hallmark of human beauty was its plainness, the symmetry and simplicity that always seemed so young and so innocent. It was impossible not to think that here beauty was one of the most important things about her - something having to do with who she really was.
— Elif Batuman, The Idiot
Style is the shape the ideal takes, rhythm, its movement.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Self-growth does not always mean that we've changed. It means that we've stopped listening to what others say we 'ought' to be doing and finally live our lives according to our own values.
— Anthea Syrokou, Eventually Julie
We were thirsty for some form of beauty, even in an incomprehensible, overintellectual, abstract film with no subtitles and censored out of recognition. There was a sense of wonder at being in a public place for the first time in years without fear or anger, being in a place with a crowd of strangers that was not a demonstration, a protest rally, a breadline or a public execution...For a brief time we experienced collectively the kind of awful beauty that can only be grasped at through extreme anguish and expressed through art.
— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran
Not easy, not at all for everyone to see the beauty of one's self/soul. It's all about money, nothing else.
— Balakoteswara Panchakshari
My takeaway from all of Ophelia's sessions was that life favored value. The world was bursting with opportunity. If you didn't like who you were, it was time to reinvent yourself and try again. It was a disservice to the universe to cheat everyone of your talents. And if you were at your wit's end, thinking you had nothing to offer, it was essential to cultivate value within yourself in order to move forward. In order to live beyond existence. In order to turn your pain into something beautiful.
— Fran Seen, Lionheart: a Beauty & the Beast Retelling
Your beauty is yours, believe it. Do not rely on someone else to approve it.
— Joan Ambu
The little queen lived in a world where the sky swirled like the sea and nothing was itself for very long. Everything looked to be in brushstrokes.
— Meia Geddes, The Little Queen
Seek and see beauty in the watery world.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
Reveal the timeless beauty of Nature’s special places.
— Fennel Hudson, Traditional Angling - Fennel's Journal - No. 6
The need of theory is supported by the eros of the philosopher. It is not the expression of his will to conquer nature. Therefore, the joys of contemplation are "immediate enjoyments," joys that belong intrinsically to contemplation, and they come without further setting of goals or justification to the one receptive to them. They are not tied to social use, neither dependent upon the opinion of others nor gained from the expectation of future glory. The love for the observation of nature, for the observation of the details of the structure in which nature becomes comprehensible, of the order in which nature is articulated, of the spectacle nature provides for one who takes an interest in its objects, who lets its forms, colors, and sounds affect him, this love accords with the love of oneself. Both discourage highfalutin plans to change the world by the transformation of nature. Both impose moderation on the philosopher. He will be especially adequate to his desire to "contribute" something "to this beautiful system" by his conceiving it as a "system" and as "beautiful." The contribution most his own is that he has the whole in view; that he sees things and beings within the horizon of the whole, that he investigates and orders them as parts, that he knows himself as a part and reflects on his relation to the whole or that he poses the question of the whole. But if he wants to keep the question of the whole in view, he may not lose himself. To conceive the "beautiful system," he must devote himself to it in detail and again return to himself. To be able to observe nature, he may not blend into it. Observation requires both proximity and distance.
— Heinrich Meier, On the Happiness of the Philosophic Life: Reflections on Rousseau's Rêveries in Two Books
I can dance beauty into my body
— Padma Venkatraman, A Time to Dance
The USA is a beautiful country...when you take the corrupt corporations and their government minions out of the equation.
— Steven Magee
The beauty of life is the bliss of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
She is a smile in the dark
— Richard L.  Ratliff
Always carry what is beautiful in your heart.
— Will Advise
You are ruin and chaos to them, but you are lovely to my eye.''You're brave or daft, then,' she said, quite rightly. 'Chaos and ruin. Where does that leave me, then?
— Madeleine Roux, House of Furies
Brokenness is just like beauty; it's something we wear and carry, and if we let it define us, it will. But we are not our beauty or our brokenness, because souls are not made of beauty or brokenness. Souls are made of something permanent. Souls are made of truth.
— Lauren   Miller, All Things New
Golden Ratio is a powerful mathematical constant woven into the very fabric of biology. It is the unique visual tension between comforting symmetry and compelling asymmetry, and its thoughtful application can bring beauty and harmony and intrigue to all manner of designed things.
— Darrin Crescenzi
Mirror, mirror on the wall, I have placed you in my hallWhere I wander every day.Echo beauty, and you’ll stay.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
All that is beautiful can only be felt.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Witnessing the panoply of beauty in all of nature takes us out of our shell of self-absorption and makes us realize that we are merely bit players in the game of life. Witnessing the majesty of beauty confirms that the real show lies outside us to observe and appreciate and not inside us to transfix us. True beauty charms us into seeing the grandeur of goodness that surrounds us and by doing so, the pristine splendor of nature releases us from wallowing in the poverty of our self-idealization. The bewitching spell cast by the exquisiteness of nature levitates our souls and transforms our psyche. When we see, hear, taste, smell, or touch what is beautiful, we cannot suppress the urge to replicate its baffling texture by singing, dancing, painting, or writing. Opening our eye to the loveliness of a single flower is how we stay in touch with the glorious pageantry of living.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Humankind demonstrates an unerring ability to witness beauty. By observing nature’s beauty and striving to create beautiful things, humankind brokers its own salvation.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Be a girl with a mind, beauty and talents!
— Hopal Green
I won’t desecrate beauty with cynicism anymore. I won’t confuse critical thinking with a critical spirit, and I will practice, painfully, over and over, patience and peace until my gentle answers turn away even my own wrath.
— Sarah Bessey, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible’s View of Women
The beauty of being!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
IT'S NEVER TOO LATEIt's never too late to look after yourself. Never too late to eat healthily, get plenty of rest, exercise regularly and look after your skin. You'd be amazed at how quickly your skin and body can rejuvenate given the right environment.
— Jana Elston
Those who say they don't have the time to take care of their skin, will sooner or later have to find the time for corrective treatments.
— Jana Elston
The fact that neither of us made sense was the beauty of it.
— Dominic Riccitello
The beautiful soul!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Beauty may catch the eye, but a jolly laugh will lasso the heart.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the puzzling world of the beautiful, elegant, ugly, and grotesque. Human beings ability to experience sublime pleasure emanates from a variety of sensory experiences and a person’s ability to make discriminatory observations and judgment in taste and sentiment.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I first understood why Christians prayed for a savior in the form of a beautiful man. He had absolved me of the blue-streaked blond.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
It was all so foolish then, as it is now, as it is forever. To be in love with beauty. To try to hold on to it.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
I knew beauty for me would only ever be derived from loss.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
Is there any beauty like the bliss of being?
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place. - Marmee
— Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Love, reverence, and adoration, are multifaceted emotions. Similar to a painting by an artist, how we respond to a beautiful woman, nature, and the world that we encounter reveals the spectator and not life.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever. A woman wants a big cup.
— Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance
O! How much more doth beauty beauteous seem
—  By that sweet ornament which truth doth give!
Of Course you can attract someone by Beautiful body ,but if you don't have beautiful soul than they will be with you only until they enjoy your body in Bed
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
But no matter what my eyes report, there is beauty that lives under the skin, under the surface, under the standards set up for me by outside arbiters of what is good and true. Those arbiters are not always so reliable. They can be bought and sold. They can be marketed and manufactured. The real standards, the ones set forth by the One who made me, are solid, knitted into me at my beginning. This beauty is true and real, and it lives within the heart. It is my heart that must be trained to recognize this beauty.
— Angela Doll Carlson, Garden in the East: The Spiritual Life of the Body
Me being an ant, at her mountain, I would have tried my best for my voice to reach her peak. But our timing was off, and she hid her pain as stars in clouds. If I had the chance, I would have saved her from all the truths and lies.
— Anthony Liccione
Good people are always beautiful.
— Luffina Lourduraj
It is foolish to wish for beauty.  Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others.  If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.  So said the teachers of our childhood; and so say we to the children of the present day.  All very judicious and proper, no doubt; but are such assertions supported by actual experience?We are naturally disposed to love what gives us pleasure, and what more pleasing than a beautiful face—when we know no harm of the possessor at least?  A little girl loves her bird—Why?  Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless?  A toad, likewise, lives and feels, and is equally helpless and harmless; but though she would not hurt a toad, she cannot love it like the bird, with its graceful form, soft feathers, and bright, speaking eyes.  If a woman is fair and amiable, she is praised for both qualities, but especially the former, by the bulk of mankind: if, on the other hand, she is disagreeable in person and character, her plainness is commonly inveighed against as her greatest crime, because, to common observers, it gives the greatest offence; while, if she is plain and good, provided she is a person of retired manners and secluded life, no one ever knows of her goodness, except her immediate connections.  Others, on the contrary, are disposed to form unfavourable opinions of her mind, and disposition, if it be but to excuse themselves for their instinctive dislike of one so unfavoured by nature; and visa versâ with her whose angel form conceals a vicious heart, or sheds a false, deceitful charm over defects and foibles that would not be tolerated in another. 
— Anne Brontë, Agnes Grey
If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
One could get bored even with beauty when one was constantly surrounded by it.
— Morgan Rhodes, Frozen Tides
The nature of a true seeker after beauty is to overlook flaws.
— Ron Brackin
No matter how bitter the truth is, the beauty is that it liberates.
— Gift Gugu Mona
This is where Mother and I differ greatly. Her advice in the face of melancholy is: 'Think about all the suffering in the world and be thankful you're not part of it.' My advice is: 'Go outside and try to recapture the happiness within yourself
—  think of all the beauty in yourself and in everything around you and be happy.
Her eyes remind me of the Pacific: Raging. Fearless. Restless.
— Shannon  Mullen, See What Flowers
Your beauty will be in shades of melanin and light.
— R. Y.S. Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that two figures standing with their backs against the window appear against the branches of a spreading tree. With a shock of emotion one feels 'There are figures without features robed in beauty'. In the pause that follows while the ripples spread, the girl to whom one should be talking says to herself, 'He is old'. But she is wrong. It is not age; it is that a drop has fallen; another drop. Time has given the arrangement another shake. Out we creep from the arch of the currant leaves, out into a wider world. The true order of things – this is our perpetual illusion – is now apparent. Thus in a moment, in a drawing-room, our life adjusts itself to the majestic march of day across the sky.
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Glitters overshadow the subtle beauty... Same goes for publicity and authenticity.
— Talees Rizvi
Beauty of body doesn't matter ,Many snakes are beautiful but you cant keep them in home because their nature to sting and kill by their poison which all they have inside So matter is what is Inside Not Out side Beauty
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, "Zaki's Gift Of Love"
Yandex translation from Croatian to English: Nomadom was the time when the ratio of beauty began to think about how about love than between two parts, in which opposites attract only magical powers, and the same ratio is equal to the lords and architecture and nature.
— Jasna Horvat, Auron
After having grown up surrounded by so much manufactured beauty, Amara had come to want something different. Something that wasn't necessarily beautiful. Something imperfect, interesting, and perhaps even ugly.
— Morgan Rhodes, Frozen Tides
Beauty like hers had no place in his life.
— Kelly Moran, Redemption
The job of the United Nations is to grow more flowers, more smiles and more beauty on the earth. Once effect is created, cause will follow,
— Amit Ray, Peace on the Earth  A Nuclear Weapons Free World
Beauty is irrelevant to human life, especially in a relationship. What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works. It is not beauty that keeps a relationship alive, it is attachment. Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex toy.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
He didn’t ask himself if she was beautiful, because the physical effect of her presence made the question insignificant.
— Sebastian Faulks, Birdsong
I've been beautiful all along.
— Soman Chainani, The School for Good and Evil
When I put on makeup, I'm not doing it to pander to antiquated patriarchal ideals of feminine beauty. I'm doing it because it makes mr feel good.
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
Beauty is an illusion, created by Mother Nature to drive the human species in the path of reproduction. In reality, beauty is irrelevant to human life, especially in a relationship. What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works. It is not beauty that keeps a relationship alive, it is attachment. Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex toy.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
It is not beauty that keeps a relationship alive, it is attachment. Without attachment, a naked body is merely a lifeless sex toy.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
When I put on makeup, I'm not doing it to pander to antiquated patriarchal ideas of feminine beauty. I'm doing it because it makes me feel good.
— Sophia Amoruso, #GIRLBOSS
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
— Anna Katharine Green
At the end of the day…we are anchoring into the peaceful lagoon, smiling at the majestic sun and its flirting rays, slowly slipping into the glittering ballroom of immense night skies, sipping on the platinum moon liquor under the blues of rippling waves kissing my golden foot hanging over the board of gently rocking boat, and diving into the bed of galaxies whispering magical stories of their eternal lives connecting souls…till the dawn…
— Oksana Rus
Behold,' said the Voice, 'earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in it is nothing but a pile of skulls, showing where others were lost as they went before.
— Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt
What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
Some days after, the girl encountered her again, in a dream, as she was years ago: a very slender young woman in a long white skirt, her amber hair to her waist, her eyes coal black with ardor.
— Gina Berriault, Stolen Pleasures: Selected Stories of Gina Berriault
hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty: and many of them have not yet been discovered.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality
for you to see beauty heredoes not meanthere is beauty in meit means there is beauty rootedso deep within youyou can’t help butsee it everywhere
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
Are women beautiful or aren't we?
— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
If this cursed and fallen worldholds such beauty as what I see,Imagine the beauty of paradisethat's gladly waiting for me.
— Joyce Rachelle
All I ever wanted in my life was to be treated as an individual. I have succeeded, to some extent. At least I'm sure that in the Lord's eyes, I am an individual. I am not a "colored" person, or a "Negro" person, in God's eyes. I am just me! The Lord won't hold it against me that I'm colored because He made me that way! He thinks I am beautiful! And so do I, even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!-Bessie
— Amy Hill Hearth, Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
What a MOTHER means to me;Multitask personality whoOverwork to Offer Opportunities to everyone withTender heartedness Holy Spirit filled, Healthy and Holistic teacher and trainer whoEncourages people to take a risk in for them to be Reliable and Respected by humanity.
— WISDOM KWASHIE MENSAH (WKM)
All I ever wanted in my life was to be treated as an individual. I have succeeded, to some extent. At least I'm sure that in the Lord's eyes, I am an individual. I am not a "colored" person, or a "Negro" person, in God's eyes. I am just me! The Lord won't hold it against me that I'm colored because He made me that way! He thinks I am beautiful! And so do I, even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful!
— Bessie Delany
Do not all charms fly / At the mere touch of cold philosophy?
— John Keats 1795-1821
What is beautiful is goodand who is good will soon be beautiful.
— Cathryn Michon, The Grrl Genius Guide to Life: A Twelve-Step Program on How to Become a Grrl Genius, According to Me!
Beauty, coveted though it was, could not outlive you. Only actions would.
— Roshani Chokshi, A Crown of Wishes
No one who is good can ever be ugly.
— Roald Dahl, The Twits
Beauty is irrelevant to human life, especially in a relationship.
— Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
If there is any one person you can't love, then you don't understand love. The bitter cup we have to drink is the dregs of humility; we must see past the outer shells of insecurity to the seed of divinity deep inside each one of us. No one virtue is strong enough to stand on its own. No one vice is simple enough not to lead to all others. No one person can appreciate and support us as much as we need. No one event is enough to tear apart our lives. What does this all mean? We have to give everything or we will have nothing. We cannot take any short cuts. We have to love everyone, or we cannot truly love anyone. No excuse will mean anything to us in the end.People are beautiful, don’t forget that. Don’t let pomp and circumstance, society or folklore fool you with counterfeit beauty. True beauty is usually not something you can see, but something you feel; something that inspires you.
— Michael Brent Jones, Dinner Party: Part 2
The earth is always changing...readjusting to our existence. Each era is full of unique challenges
— Val Uchendu
There is beauty in tragedy. And we all believed!
— J. Limbu
Aim for truth, and beauty will follow. Aim for beauty, and truth will not necessarily follow.
— Chuck Wachtel
The greatest thinkers have attempted to find who we are where we come from and why we are here but the greatest enigmas to me are how your hair is a lasso that captures the stars how your eyes are lakes that drown my doubts and how your skin is the sun bursting all at once. If I knew these answers I’d know everything for you alone contain the entire universe.
— Kamand Kojouri
Romance and romantic are different. Death, itself, can be romantic. Nature and a destructive snowstorm can be romantic. Lovers in love but giving that up can also be romantic. There is something aesthetically romantic in beauty itself. And beauty can even be pain. Therefore, pain is romantic, especially when the sufferer does so for love.
— R.B. O'Brien
He wasn't like those handsome men you see on the fashion billboards. He was handsome in a rugged way like a wood cutter with an unkept beard or a man who just finished fixing the engine of his car, wiping his oily hands over his white flannel shirt. Like a man who knows that he has starry eyes that can bring stars closer but doesn't even bother to look.
— Malak El Halabi
In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.
— Deborah Levy, Hot Milk
What you doStill betters what is done. When you speak, sweet.I'ld have you do it ever: when you sing,I'ld have you buy and sell so, so give alms,Pray so; and, for the ordering your affairs,To sing them too: when you do dance, I wish youA wave o' the sea, that you might ever doNothing but that; move still, still so,And own no other function: each your doing,So singular in each particular,Crowns what you are doing in the present deed,That all your acts are queens.
— William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale
Why hoard away so many back-issues of People Magazine? Fashion magazines are just empty promises. You can go bankrupt blowing all your cash on expensive beauty products, but the only way you’ll ever look just like the people on those glossy front covers is if you know how to use computer editing software for photographs. Besides, people who think they are ugly, are never really all that ugly anyway. People who think they are pretty, are rarely ever all that pretty.
— Rebecca McNutt, Listen is Silent, or The Usurer
There is, in the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock down, and though we may grow around it, that need runs in us, deeper than our blood.
— Mark Lawrence
There is, in the act of destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock down, and though we may grow around it, that need runs in is, deeper than our blood.
— Mark Lawrence, Red Sister
Its quietness was the quietness of strength. And the eyes were those of one who had walked through many a dark valley without flinching.
— Madeleine Brent, Stranger at Wildings
Real beauty has no boundaries’.
— Prajakta Mhadnak
...being beautiful has nothing to do with sex. You have to be beautiful in here, too.” he says, pressing his fist against his heart and then his head.
— Karina Halle, Racing the Sun
No one noticed them step off the train, no one saw them arrive in Desolation Road . . . . Then something very much like a sustained explosion of light filled the hotel and there, at the epicenter of the glare, was the most beautiful woman anyone had ever seen. Every man in the room had to swallow hard. Every woman fought an inexpressible need to sigh. A dozen hearts cracked down the middle and all the love flew out like larks and circled round the incredible being. It was as if God Himself had walked into the room. Then the God-light went out and there was a blinking, eye-rubbing darkness. When vision was restored, everyone saw before them a small, very ordinary man and a young girl of about eight who was quite the plainest, drabbest creature anyone had ever seen. For it was the nature of Ruthie Blue Mountain, a girl of stunning ordinariness, to absorb like sunlight the beauty of everything around her and store it until she chose to release it, all at once, like a flashbulb of intense beauty. Then she would return again to dowdy anonymity, leaving behind her an afterimage in the heart of unutterable loss.
— Ian McDonald, Desolation Road
I watched as he raised his hand to run a finger down my nose to my lips, then traced my mouth.The feather-light touch made me shiver. "What are you doing?""I'm drawing you, so that I'll have you in my fingertips while you are gone.
— Frances Watts, The Peony Lantern
No decorationcan compare in loveliness
— a perfect flower
If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.
— Ruthie Lindsey
An introspective person seeks to attain a pure state of consciousness by merging finitude in infinity and by expressing the rapture of the soul through the contemplation and adoration of beauty. In this brief interlude of time, I surrender to becoming a cog in the roadway, an insentient time traveler, a ward of eternity, a day-tripper, a nighttime dream weaver, a blip in the cosmos, a freebase glob of energy, an imaginable disk of bundled vitality that wants for nothing.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
You have the face of a man who gently caresses field flowers and dandelions. And a smile that is like a dagger, cutting the sun in halves.
— Malak El Halabi
Beauty surrounds us, but oftentimes it takes a person with a poetic perception, an artist’s way of looking at the world, to first notice the sublime, and then stagecraft the splendor of nature so that other people can perceive their synoptic vision. The spirit and aesthetic intention behind the work is what assigns the work its artistic quality. Great works of poetry and writing, for instance, express not simply a criticism of life, but also encompass a philosophy for living.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
There is a Reason to say Beautiful... But there is no Reason to say Awesome...
— boddu subbarao
The power of a young woman is in her beauty and charm. The power of a woman in her later years is her social position and her ability to convince.
— R.A.Delmonico
He was generally aware that he had been blessed in her beauty; even in her usual homespun, knee-deep in mud from her garden, or stained and fierce with the blood of her calling, the curve of her bones spoke to his own marrow, and those whisky eyes could make him drunk with a glance. Besides, the mad collieshangie of her hair made him laugh.
— Diana Gabaldon, The Fiery Cross
YOU R sO bRUEtifUL...how R U so BRUTEfUL and good?
— Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
In all things there is beauty. In the glint of dew clinging to the strands of a spider’s web; in the way the setting sun winks off shards of broken glass; in the rainbow forming in the soap suds in a sink full of dirty dishes; in a blade of grass which manages to force its way, with patience and time, through the all too willing grasp of sidewalk cement. It is in the faded brown of leaves, turning, twisting against their fate, as they fall to the ground, light and dry as brittle bones, and in the bare, thin-tipped branches, denuded by a change in season. It is in the way a stranger’s laughter cradles you if you let it. It is in the intricate scars of a lover’s back and in our upturned eyes when we ask for forgiveness.
— Marta Curti, In All Things
Mostly the beauty has the dangerous, suspicious, untrusting, and even vanity waves in it, and that indeed, prevail too.
— Ehsan Sehgal
The feet of them that preach the gospel of peace possess beauty
— Sunday Adelaja
The beauty of a meek spirit is precious to God
— Sunday Adelaja
This world is of a single piece; yet, we invent nets to trap it for our inspection. Then we mistake our nets for the reality of the piece. In these nets we catch the fishes of the intellect but the sea of wholeness forever eludes our grasp. So, we forget our original intent and then mistake the nets for the sea.Three of these nets we have named Nature, Mathematics, and Art. We conclude they are different because we call them by different names. Thus, they are apt to remain forever separated with nothing bonding them together. It is not the nets that are at fault but rather our misunderstanding of their function as nets. They do catch the fishes but never the sea, and it is the sea that we ultimately desire.
— Martha Boles, Universal Patterns
Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the Universal Being
—  Truth the perfect comprehension of the Universal Mind.
Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the Universal Being; Truth the perfect comprehension of the Universal Mind. We individuals approach it through our own mistakes and blunders, through our accumulated experiences, through our illumined consciousness — how, otherwise, can we know Truth?
— Rabindranath Tagore
Doesn't it make you feel kind of awesome that the world is beautiful for no other apparent reason that that it is? Like beauty has its own secret reason. It doesn't need human eyes to notice. It just wants to be glorious and unbelievable.
— Martine Leavitt, Calvin
We crave beauty, like we crave peace.
— Jawwad Zafar
The machine was so intricate, so complicated, that he almost got dizzy looking at it. Even in its sad state of disrepair, it was beautiful.
— Brian Selznick, The Invention of Hugo Cabret
Cold were the lips, yet he kissed them. Salt was the honey of the hair, yet he tasted it with a bitter joy. He kissed the closed eyelids, and the wild spray that lay upon their cups was less salt than his tears. And to the dead thing he made confession. Into the shells of its ears he poured the harsh wine of his tale. He put the little hands round his neck, and with his fingers he touched the thin reed of the throat. Bitter, bitter was his joy, and full of strange gladness was his pain.
— Oscar Wilde, The Fisherman and His Soul
Real is the new beautiful
— Renae A. Sauter, An Empowered Life: Mind/Body/Spirit Empowerment
I'm forty-nine, not fifteen, and I've made my peace with myself. Had I been handsome and stupid when I was fifteen, or twenty-one, as, at that time in life, I wished I had been, I would undoubtedly now no longer be handsome--but I'd still be stupid. So, in the long run, I've won out.
— Isaac Asimov, Nemesis
Just because a person is attractive/beautiful, this does not mean it is okay to villainize them. We always say that we cannot judge a person from the outside (doesn't matter if they have a handicap, are ugly, have a deformity, etc.). But this must go both ways. It also does not matter if someone is beautiful, attractive and happy. That also does not make it okay to judge them, to villainize them. There is a double standard when it comes to whom people choose to be good to, and this double standard is wrong. The outward appearance, both the grotesque and the beautiful, must not be basis for kindness and for cruelty.
— C. JoyBell C.
I'd keep your beauty timeless. like a flower pressed in a book, yesI wouldn't let it fade Folded in the chapters of my mind
— Richard L.  Ratliff
She made beauty all round her. When she trod on mud, the mud was beautiful; when she ran in the rain, the rain was silver. When she picked up a toad - she had the strangest and, I thought, unchanciest love for all manner of brutes - the toad became beautiful.
— C.S. Lewis, Till We Have Faces
Can the beautiful be sad? Is beauty inseparable from the ephemeral and hence from mourning? Or else is the beautiful object the one that tirelessly returns following destructions and wars in order to bear witness that there is survival after death, that immortality is possible?
— Julia Kristeva, Black Sun: Depression and Melancholia
Every person writes his or her life story similar to how a musician composes music. Author Milan Kundera noted, ‘Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of great distress.’ Guided by their aesthetic sense of beauty, a person transforms the intentional and fortuitous events of their life into an expressive episodic motif, which artistic creation assumes a permanent place in the composition of his or her conscious mind.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I was not beautiful, but I believed I had the possibility of beauty in me.
— Michael Cunningham, A Home at the End of the World
Let the beauty of sunrise, keep your heart warm.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
And there was nothing left for me to do, but go. Though the things of the world were strong with me still. Such as, for example: a gaggle of children trudging through a side-blown December flurry; a friendly match-share beneath some collision-tilted streetlight; a frozen clock, bird-visited within its high tower; cold water from a tin jug; toweling off one’s clinging shirt post–June rain.Pearls, rags, buttons, rug-tuft, beer-froth. Someone’s kind wishes for you; someone remembering to write; someone noticing that you are not at all at ease.
— George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
I don’t need to conform to your ideas of beauty
— Kylie Scott, Lead
Never miss an opportunity of noticing anything of beauty ...
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature and Walking
Not lovelier. But a different kind of loveliness. There are so many kinds of loveliness.
— L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
Explore the beauty of existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Normality is much less captivating than the extraordinary.
— Erin Forbes, Fire & Ice: The Elementals
Photography saved my life by opening my eyes to the beauty that surrounds me each and everyday. Life look much richer from behind the lens.
— Donna Kasubeck
True beauty is the Truth of bliss.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The only two words you should ever say to a mirror are "Hello, Beautiful.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
When I surprise myself at the mirror I am not frightened because I think I am ugly or beautiful. It is because I discover I am of a different nature. After not having seen myself for a while I almost forget I am human, I forget my past and I am as free from end and awareness as something merely alive. I am also surprised, eyes open pale at the mirror, that there are so many things in me besides what I know, so many things always silent.
— Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart
Then there are the fully intentional pleasures, which, although in some way tied up with sensory or perceptual experience, are modes of exploration of the world. Aesthetic pleasures are like this. Aesthetic pleasures are contemplative - they involve studying an object OUTSIDE of the self, to which one is GIVING something (namely, attention and all that flows from it), and not TAKING, as in the pleasure that comes from drugs and drinks. Hence such pleasures are not addictive - there is no pathway to reward that can be short-circuited here, and a serotonin injection is not a cheap way of obtaining the experience of PARISFAL or THE MERCHANT OF VENICE.
— Roger Scruton, On Human Nature
Each generation has its own dream of beauty. I have lived long enough to watch it change. Just then, he was what all sculptors were reaching after, and only the great achieved.
— Mary Renault, The Praise Singer
A happy heart is the beauty of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Sacred being is beauty.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If one of the luminaries should condescend, then the homely lover, plain of face, knows damn well to choose some modest number, and then begin counting down the days of love. Beauty seeks after beauty, like goes with like; forever this was the way of things, world without end.
— Kai Ashante Wilson, Super Bass
Maybe that's why I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships.
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Like the fragrance of lavender, Love cannot be hidden either..... Sudipta Das in The Extra-Terrestrial Delivery
— Sudipta   Das, The Extra-Terrestrial Delivery
Maybe I should tell her that things without meaning are the most beautiful ones. It’s a good sentence, she’ll like it.
— Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name
Your skin has a memory.In ten, twenty, thirty years from now, your skin will show the results of how it was treated today.So treat it kindly and with respect.
— Jana Elston
Your skin has a memory.In ten, twenty, thirty years from now, your skin will show the results ofhow it was treated today.So treat it kindly and with respect.
— Jana Elston
The world had no beauty of its own. The beauty of the world was created in the human experience, in me. The very fact of beauty, the very idea that something could be beautiful, only existed in me. The point was not to see the world....The point was to experience the world.
— Andrew Klavan, The Great Good Thing: A Secular Jew Comes to Faith in Christ
She was beautiful in a damaged way.
— Elliott Holt, You Are One of Them
To be human is to seek beauty, Shallan. Do not despair, do not end the hunt because thorns grow in your way.
— Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance
A connection could be drawn between the secular ascent of biblical values in today's world and the depreciation of beauty that characterizes it on so many levels. Beauty today is often depreciated as monotonous or denounced as a constraining norm, when it is simply reduced to a pure spectacle accompanied by a rehabilitation or even exaltation of deformity and ugliness, as can be seen in many areas. The degeneration of beauty and the promotion of ugliness, tied to the flowering of intellectualism, could be certainly be part of the Umwertung stigmatized by Nietzsche.
— Alain de Benoist, On Being A Pagan
Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
The idea of beauty, like a slab of magnificent marble, has crushed all possible refinement and vitality from the psychology of love.
— José Ortega y Gasset, On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme
I felt the sharp sting of emptiness and solitude that you feel so acutely and with such internal sorrow and wonder whenever music is performed well.
— Pat Conroy, The Lords of Discipline
Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Mystic, can never rest
— Aleister Crowley
We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words — to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it.
— C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory
Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underneath the big elm. On the way through the school corridors they passed the headmistress's study. The door was wide open, the room was empty.'Little girls,' said Miss Brodie, 'come and observe this.'They clustered round the open door while she pointed to a large poster pinned with drawing-pins on the opposite wall within the room. It depicted a man's big face. Underneath were the words 'Safety First'.'This is Stanley Baldwin who got in as Prime Minister and got out again ere long,' said Miss Brodie. 'Miss Mackay retains him on the wall because she believes in the slogan "Safety First". But Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first. Follow me.
— Muriel Spark, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Confidence is always the best accessory. Own the moment. Own your space.
— Andrena Sawyer
Find something beautiful to focus on daily and allow Inspiration to have its way with you.
— Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace
there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures.
— Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song
You can't tell what's in a person's heart until you truly Know them.
— Belle
Attempt always to uncover the beauty in everyday surroundings. If you cannot find it, then be the one to create it.
— Stefan Cupka
Nothing can happen more beautiful than death - Walt Whitman
— Holly Black, The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
To every corner of the planet, to the young and old, to all humanity. I see your beauty. I really do.
— Nurudeen Ushawu
Nature is cruel. Isn't that right, Daddy? Every living thing has to die. And they're still beautiful. Now they'll stay that way.
— Kate Morton, The Lake House
But silence continued in the layers of the earth, and this density that I could feel at my shoulders continued harmonious, sustained, unaltered through eternity. I lay there pondering my situation, lost in the desert, and in danger, naked between sky and sand and stars, withdrawn by too much silence from the poles of my life.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars
We do not want merely to see beauty, though, God knows, even that is bounty enough. We want something else which can hardly be put into words — to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it
— C.S. Lewis
Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress , my hairdresser, my make-up, it will all work the same way. They do not conceive of the witchcraft that is needed. They do not know that I am not beautiful but that I only appear to be at certain moments.
— Anaïs Nin, Henry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin
Every baby is born beautiful. It's what we project on them that makes them ugly.
— Jodi Picoult, Small Great Things
The beauty of a youthful strength is a blissful life!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The beauty of soul is reflected by eyes
— Ahlam Salhab
The back barn door opened, and in walked a vision in a billowing green dress. As she led in her mare, Mr. McBride’s voice faded away as Tom’s total attention turned to the girl. About twenty-one or two, Tom guessed. Not too tall, nor short. Beautiful heart-shaped face decorated with rosy cheeks and light freckles. Long auburn hair tied back in a ponytail. Perfectly set green eyes. Full-bosomed and hourglass shaped. Breathtaking.
— C.G. Faulkner, Unreconstructed
The day is like a diamond, all beautiful warmth on the outside but without any heat to accompany it.
— Michelle Zink, Prophecy of the Sisters
If you examine the Bible daily, you find the beauty of being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita