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This is something every girl should know in addition to sewing on a button and applying mascara correctly. Before I know it, I'm asking her, 'If you had a daughter what would you tell her?'Mrs. Dupree smiles. 'Oh let me think.' she says. 'Well, I would say that every time you buy a new blouse or some wrinkle cream to make you look good, go and buy a book right away. It's just as important to keep your mind beautiful, don't you think?
— Karen Harrington, Sure Signs of Crazy
That’s one of the harsh realities I learned early on about the modeling industry: ultimately, your body doesn’t really belong to you. It belongs to the client. Since they’re paying, they figure they can do pretty much whatever they want to you. They can curl your hair, straighten it, dye it, cut it –even shave it. I’ve seen hair extensions being pulled out by the roots and smoke billowing out of flat irons while the hair inside gets singed and fried. I’ve watched models squeeze their feet into shoes so small their feet literally bled, and I’ve seen false eyelashes torn off so quickly that the natural lashes came off with them. Modeling may look glamorous on the outside, but believe me, beauty can be an ugly business.
— Kylie Bisutti, I'm No Angel: From Victoria's Secret Model to Role Model
Open your heart to the wonder of life simply by opening your heart.
— Toni Sorenson
There is no such thing as a beauty contest . . . Beauty is noncompetitive. Beauty of any kind stands alone, unmatched, inimitable, uncontested.
— Edna  Robinson, The Trouble with the Truth
...the beautiful in nature is like a spark flashing momentarily and disappearing as soon as one tries to get hold of it.
— Theodor Adorno
My toes are a total wreck, my fingernails worse, and god knows my hair could use a registered nurse.
— Jack Bunbury, He/She Smells a Hoo-Hoo
Prayer beautifies you
— TemitOpe Ibrahim
For a man he get his own ship and his own strong wind, but he cannot stop missing all the passing breezes that never come again.
— Tahar Mtibaa
When your heart, mind and soul is in harmony - you walk with love, you walk with beauty.
— Angie karan
When beauty is seen through the windows of the soul - rainbows appear and everything is magical. It feels simply divine.
— Angie karan
Only God, my dear,” wrote Yeats blithely, “Could love you for yourself alone/And not your yellow hair.” This quote is meant as a bit of lighthearted verse. But it is an epic tragedy in three lines.
— Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
Beauty... Is what you are after a lifetime of struggle in the face of hostility, surviving, and standing scarred and unafraid, triumphant before your enemies.
— Christina Engela, For Love of Leelah
Beauty isn't skin-deep. It's bone-deep. Heart-deep. Soul-deep. Only put to sleep. When we prick our finger on fear. Beauty can't be bought or made. It can only be awoken through laughter, and living, and love. Through being you and being true.
— Siobhan Curham, The Moonlight Dreamers
True wealth does not glitter. It is revealed by the beauty of a life well lived.
— Debasish Mridha
But he told me that most of the time he stayed on the boardwalk, facing the water, just the way we were sitting now even when it got cold and he had to wear his newspapers after he read them.And I asked him why. Why didn't he go to one of the shelters? Why didn't he check himself into the hospital for detox? And he just stared out at the ocean and said, "Look at the view, young lady. Look at the view.
— Anna Quindlen, A Short Guide to a Happy Life
And that afternoon, as the sun slanted low through the changing autumn leaves, I remembered to savor the moment, soak in the beauty, breathe deeply and feel the immensity of God.
— Cindee Snider Re, Discovering Hope: Beginning the Journey Toward Hope in Chronic Illness
Talented writers etched the story detailing the travails of broken souls numerous times. The poets recounted an equal amount of times the lucent tears of human laughter and weeping sorrow. Everyone understands bitterness and joy. Conversely, the most evocative aspects of human beings, the bewildering clarification of their ambiguous natures, are virtually indefinable and therefore unutterable. Written testaments to love, truth, beauty, and adoration of nature are inherently weak because words fail to convey what a person experiences inside the spaces that compose their chemical field.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I wonder what became of you, your JohnnyRotten skin, no Emerald City eyes.You'd have been a beauty if you let inferiority steam your glasses with its candor, sans laughter.
— Kristen Henderson
And where do I go? Where on Earth does a person go when she realizes there's no place for her? You can't possibly try to fit in, because if you do, if you manage to carve out some beautiful niche of happiness for yourself, then one day it will be taken from you as surely and truly as the sun rises each morning.
— Kelly Thompson, The Girl Who Would Be King
Up past the old lime kiln built into the side of a hill we take a hard right at a clearing lined by brittle apple trees still willing to bear fruit.I snap sticks beneath my feetand steal pictures of the view while you reach for something sweet, as much as it bowsto you.
— Kristen Henderson
Beauty is being who God made you to be. Make the most of what you have. He gave you what you are. Nothing about you is by accident. The right people will love you unconditionally, just as He does.
— Kate McGahan
Every woman with her own makeup!
— Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
Beauty is seen in repetition; keep repeating your beauty even if your beauty is not all that beautiful, you shall still leave a mark and there shall come a moment when the beauty will be seen
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Try your best, before any rest. Life gets its beauty from the best.
— Debasish Mridha
Like preachers, I sell vision,like perfume ads, desireor its facsimile. Like jokesor war, it’s all in the timing.I sell men back their worse suspicions:that everything’s for sale,
— Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House
Uniconsciousess is a consciousness and awareness that everything, everyone, every beauty, every life, and every thought arises from the same thing. We are one. We are different expressions of one.
— Debasish Mridha
Always be excited about your life. Try to find and create beauty in and around you. Give away your love and smiles as much as you can. Be content and happy with what you have.
— Debasish Mridha
Tell your daughters how you love your body.Tell them how they must love theirs.Tell them to be proud of every bit of themselves—from their tiger stripes to the soft flesh of their thighs,whether there is a little of them or a lot,whether freckles cover their face or not,whether their curves are plentiful or slim,whether their hair is thick, curly, straight, long or short.Tell them how they inheritedtheir ancestors, souls in their smiles,that their eyes carry countriesthat breathed life into history,that the swing of their hipsdoes not determine their destiny.Tell them never to listen when bodies are critiqued.Tell them every woman’s body is beautifulbecause every woman’s soul is unique.
— Nikita Gill
Girls are the only ones who can really give each other close attention, the kind we equate with being loved. They noticed what we want noticed.And that's what I did for Tamar, I responded to her symbols. To the style of her hair and clothes and the smell of her L'Air Du Temps perfume. Like this was data that mattered. Signs that reflected something of her inner self. I took her beauty personally.
— Emma Cline, The Girls
Our inner beauty is that Kingdom of Heaven that lies within. It is a fragrance and the signature of our soul.
— Angie karan
When beauty lives in the heart, it doesn’t need to show up anywhere else.
— Steve Goodier, Joy Along the Way: Sixty-Second Readings That Make the Trip Worthwhile
She looked exactly like an angel. I know my jaw dropped a little, and I just stood there looking at her for what seemed like a long time, shocked into silence, until I suddenly remembered that I had a line I had to deliver. I took a deep breath, then slowly let it out. "You're beautiful," I finally said to her, and I think everyone in the whole auditorium, from the blue-haired ladies in the front to my friends in the back row, knew that I actually meant it. I'd nailed that line for the very first time.
— Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
It's all about how you look at things. We often choose to make something ugly or beautiful.
— Lexi Blake, Ruthless
The plan of Nature is progress and for any progress mankind must pay a price. It is quite evident to me that man must pay for everything except for the natural beauty of the landscape, which, if he is fortunate enough to live where it still exists, is free. Beauty has always existed and always will. Man has destroyed much of it, but he can never destroy all. The oceans are unchanged and the rivers still flow, even though some of them are laden with pollution, and some overflow, and others are less brimful than they were. The mountains stand. Man has made changes, he builds highways, cuts down trees, deflects a river's course as well as poisons it, yet beauty remains.Therefore, I think we should take time to enjoy what we can see of it.
— Faith Baldwin, Evening Star
On BeautyNo, we could not itemize the listof sins they can't forgive us.The beautiful don't lack the wound.It is always beginning to snow.Of sins they can't forgive usspeech is beautifully useless.It is always beginning to snow.The beautiful know this.Speech is beautifully useless.They are the damned.The beautiful know this.They stand around unnatural as statuary.They are the damnedand so their sadness is perfect,delicate as an egg placed in your palm.Hard, it is decorated with their faceand so their sadness is perfect.The beautiful don't lack the wound.Hard, it is decorated with their face.No, we could not itemize the list. Cape Cod, May 1974
— Zadie Smith, On Beauty
She is truly beautiful, but she doesn't have a beautiful face to match her beautiful heart. True beauty lies in the HEART.
— Fabulous Godwin
Darkness has its own beauty that you can only see with your inner light.
— Debasish Mridha
When I started to focus on all the beauty all around me, my whole world became amazingly beautiful.
— Debasish Mridha
Even if you walk through a beautiful garden, you will not be able to find the beauty if your heart is not ready to bloom.
— Debasish Mridha
If you are not pleased with what you see with your eyes, close your eyes and learn to see from your heart, this is where the true beauty lies.
— Fabulous Godwin
Beauty will attract a man, but more than it will help you to keep him.
— Olawale Daniel
If you cannot find and appreciate the beauty of your own thoughts, how can others appreciate you?
— Debasish Mridha
And she [Ada] thought momentarily that she ought to worry about losing her beauty, about having become brown and stringy and rough. And then she thought that you went on living one day after another, and in time you were somebody else, your previous self only like a close relative, a sister or brother, with whom you shared a past. But a different person, a separate life.
— Charles Frazier, Cold Mountain
Beauty is all around you. To find it, you need love filled eyes to search for it.
— Debasish Mridha
A smile is the flower that grows in the garden of the heart to beautify and attract the butterflies of life.
— Debasish Mridha
In all my paintings, the animal is at the centre. Surrounding it are the things that define the animal. This is how beauty is characterized. You need to characterize beauty by association. I have learned to worship beauty. Not ordinary beauty but that in its stormiest nature.
— Anuradha Bhattacharyya, One Word
one can't see beauty until one see's life the way it is
— Johnathan Carter
It was truer to my father to let the songs he'd sung die with him, little by little, averse at a time. How could these art-mongers constantly ignore the mortality of beauty, a pleonasm if ever I'd heard one?
— Dimitri Verhulst, De helaasheid der dingen
All that can best be expressed in words should be expressed in verse, but verse is a slow thing to create; nay, it is not really created: it is a secretion of the mind, it is a pearl that gathers round some irritant and slowly expresses the very essence of beauty and of desire that has lain long, potential and unexpressed, in the mind of the man who secretes it. God knows that this Unknown Country has been hit off in verse a hundred times...Milton does it so well in the Fourth Book of Paradise Lost that I defy any man of a sane understanding to read the whole of that book before going to bed and not to wake up next morning as though he had been on a journey.
— Hilaire Belloc, On Anything
Every piece of that marvelous world was a silent tear.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Las luces de septiembre
Stealthily the stars slid forward into nothingness.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore
Physical features count little unless they are illumined from within.
— Mark Helprin, Winter's Tale
They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets
— Darnell Lamont Walker
What is worse losing love or never finding it at all?
— Vanshika Dhyani
Chaos is nothing more than beauty about to dance.
— A.D. Posey
There is strength in kindness.
— - A Starry Eyed April, An Ode to Mama
A few days earlier, in front of his guests at his own birthday celebration, this man had started smashing his own crockery and tearing his and his wife's clothes, because he was not offered enough vodka; then he went on to break every stick of furniture in his house and smash all the windows, and he did it all for the "beauty" of the gesture, as Mr. Karamazov had just now.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
Nothing is really beautiful unless it is useless; everything useful is ugly, for it expresses a need, and the needs of man are ignoble and disgusting, like his poor weak nature. The most useful place in a house is the lavatory.
— Théophile Gautier
The spiritual process does not look outward to find beauty, but it is a process of looking inwards to see the inner beauty.
— Debasish Mridha
You can't see beauty with miserable eyes.
— H.G. Wells, Meanwhile or the Picture of a Lady
Beauty doesn't make happiness
—  it only comes to the happy.
When we see and appreciate the beauty in others, we tend to absorb it and make it ours.
— Debasish Mridha
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For a short time, your beauty is an important matter. It the long run, what is important is what you are.
— Debasish Mridha
When we emerge into the beauty of a dancing peacock, our spirit dances with joy.
— Debasish Mridha
Enjoy the beauty of a peacock to reveal your own beauty on the canvas of your mind.
— Debasish Mridha
How you spend your energy is ultimately what creates who you
— Susan Sarandon
She told a story of being so fixated on the beautiful features of a playmate that she collided with a tree and skinned her own face.
— Jean Nathan, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll: The Search for Dare Wright
Pitfalls he must find on that journey, blind paths perhaps, but through it all the philosophy of belief in the essential goodness, the actual significance of things created, the state of being, 'in love with life.
— Frances Chesterton, Wit and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton
Believe me, men never stare at women, its they who steal our attention - Ramana Pemmaraju
— Ramana Pemmaraju
Poverty's simplicity has an inexpensive beauty rooted in it, which the rich can never afford to buy
— Munia Khan
What is beautiful?Everything that has been loved by someone,That is beautiful.
— Newpostcard
It's good to feel attractive on the outside, but being smart and confident on the inside is what counts.
— Olivia Culpo
I will never forget the asymmetry of your eyes. it is transformative symmetry. it is the best symmetry. It is the symmetry that is beauty.
— Lydia Netzer, How to Tell Toledo from the Night Sky
A word Gorgeous is much sexier than a word Beautiful
— Rahul
Beauty you're born with, but brains you earn.
— Jay Kristoff, Nevernight
Perhaps not everything happens for a reason. That is, until you make it so; because for everything there is a season, which can, in fact, become beautiful.
— Criss Jami
We Orientals tend to seek our satisfactions in whatever surroundings we happen to find ourselves, to content ourselves with things as they are; and so darkness causes us no discontent, we resign ourselves to it as inevitable. If light is scarce, then light is scarce; we will immerse ourselves in the darkness and there discover its own particular beauty. But the progressive Westerner is determined always to better his lot. From candle to oil lamp, oil lamp to gaslight, gaslight to electric light—his quest for a brighter light never ceases, he spares no pains to eradicate even the minutest shadow.
— Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows
Beauty, like an animal, doesn’t always behave.
— Eva Brann, The Music of the Republic: Essays on Socrates' Conversations and Plato's Writings
Ugly ducklings often turn into beautiful swans when they are tested.
— Sudha Murty, Gently Falls the Bakula
In matters of good-lookingness, we writers are the ugliest of the bunch, and normally our appearance is akin to that of someone investigating a crime scene; though the women in American writing keep producing world-class beauty in droves, and there are many breathtaking writers among them.
— Pat Conroy
Okay, listen to me one more time. I find you very beautiful, and I'm not going to be some guy who leaves you hanging like that idiot did yesterday evening. I am willing to show you what a real woman can do to please you in every way."Jana stood they're just looking at Angel dumbstruck, unsure what to say. She just thought of what to say next, but nothing came to words. Jana sat on the couch without a word. Angel sat next to her."I am sorry for being so honest with you. But since I met you yesterday evening, I just can't and won't let my feelings go without knowing." She sighed. She just wished Jana could feel the same about her as she did about Jana.Jana looked at Angel. Her eyes were full of questions."Why me? Out of all the women in this world, you choose me. I'm nothing compared to anyone else and my best friend Destiny has the life I want and crave for."Angel smiled and hugged Jana. She didn’t try to leave her embrace. Angel counted that as a small win."That is where you are blind on. Women that are friends or couples can have all that as well. Please, just give me a chance to show you and will go from there."Jana took a deep breath looking down at her hands. She was still deciding if she should accept Angel’s suggestion."Are you sure about this? I mean we just met, and I am not sure what to think of all this? I wouldn't even know what to tell anyone that knows me?"Angel placed a finger over Jana's lips responding,"We can keep it hidden, do you agree? I just want what is best for you and me, for us. I have never been attracted to a straight woman before, but you took my breath away.
— Amber M. Kestner, Jana & Angel Volume 1
You could not see and know her, and remain unmoved by those sensations of affection which belong to so near and tender a relationship.
— Fanny Burney, Evelina
Your attention is so sacred that if you truly look for beauty and grace, you will find it in everything.
— Kamand Kojouri
....it seems to me that a pleasurable Contemplation of Beauty has certainly an immeasurably greater value than mere Consciousness of Pleasure.
— G.E. Moore, Principia Ethica
Beauty always represents an inward and inexhaustible equilibrium of forces; and this overwhelms our soul, since it can neither be calculated nor mechanically produced. A sense of beauty can therefore permit us the direct experience of relationships before we can perceive them, in a differentiated manner, with our discursive reason; in this, incidentally, there is a defence for our own physical and psychic well-being, something that we cannot neglect with impunity.
— Titus Burckhardt, Mirror of the Intellect: Essays on the Traditional Science and Sacred Art
Rediscovering our own miraculousness is the most important, valuable, world-peacing, beauty-spreading, kind, and generous thing we can do.
— Kelly Corbet, Already Here: The Matter of Love
Bridget wondered whether it all came down to the claustrophobic choice between dying beautiful or living ugly.
— Ann Brashares, The Second Summer of the Sisterhood
The soul is everlasting. It does not change. Live from your soul essence. Dare to embrace your true, full beauty. Live in GRACE!
— Angie karan
When the inner beauty exceeds the outward beauty--it creates a magical dance in the heart.
— Angie karan
Hopper’s paintings are full of women like her; women who appear to be in the grips of a loneliness that has to do with gender and unattainable standards of appearance, and that gets increasingly toxic and strangulating with age.
— Olivia Laing, The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
She had what the Councillor knew, in the technical language of the ballet, as "ballon", a lightness that is not only the negation of weight, but which actually seems to carry upwards and make for flight, and which is rarely found in thin dancers - as if the matter itself had here become lighter than air, so that the more there is of it the better it works.
— Karen Blixen, Seven Gothic Tales
There is beauty in thinking independently.
— Debasish Mridha
Grace and beauty originates from within. It is the spirit's light that glows out and make every-thing beautiful, no mater what those things are, they all have their beauty gracefully when they come from a place within.﻿
— Angie karan
It's like people don't only look good when they look like a magazine. People can be aesthetically beautiful in the way sunsets and leaves and things are.
— Laura Tims, Please Don't Tell
it's okay to be addicted to beauty," Mom says, all dreamy. "Emerson said 'beauty is God's handwriting.
— Jandy Nelson, I'll Give You the Sun
But there she was, standing next to his mother, so beautiful, so radiant that he could not see anyone else. Suddenly the rest of the world seemed like such a chore. He didn’t want to be here at this dance, with people he didn’t want to talk to and messages he didn’t particularly wish to deliver. He didn’t want to dance with young ladies he didn’t know, and he didn’t want to make polite conversation with people he did. He just wanted Billie, and he wanted her all to himself. He forgot about Tallywhite. He forgot about pease, porridge, and pudding, and he stalked across the room with such single-minded purpose that the crowds seemed to melt from his path. And somehow, amazingly, the rest of the world had not yet noticed her. She was so beautiful, so uncommonly alive and real in this room full of waxen dolls. She would not go undiscovered for long. But not yet. Soon he would have to fight the throngs of eager young gentlemen, but for now, she was still his alone.
— Julia Quinn, Because of Miss Bridgerton
Were I to use the wits the Spirits gave me, then I would say this lady cannot exist - for what sane man would hold a dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.
— Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire
The Naked Truth ©2012 Lyrics and Music by Michele JennaeV. 1We dress ourselves in the lies of othersLessening who we areWe clothe ourselves in our own self doubtHolding on to scarsTake off the mask of uncertainty,Let me see your faceRemove your disguise of hopelessnessStand tall in this placeCHORUSThe naked truth is that you’re… beautifulYou always have beenThe naked truth is that you’re… incredibleYou’re a perfect ten (I’m going to say it again)V. 2We robe ourselves in mediocrityAnd all for whatWe hide behind our fear and frustrationWho says you didn’t make the cut?Strip off the feelings of inferiorityShow us who you areLet me see the winner inside youBaby you’re gonna go farBRIDGEWhy would you want to be anybody elseOther than who you are?Because the fact of the matter isyou’re a shining star
— Michele Jennae
Were I to use the wits the Spirits gave me, then I would say this lady cannot exist cannot exist - for what sane man would hold dream to be reality. Yet rather would I not be sane and lend belief to charmed, enchanted eyes.
— Isaac Asimov, Foundation and Empire
Grace and beauty originates from within. It is the spirit's light that glows out and make every-thing beautiful
— Angie karan
I used to never get in a swimsuit. I used to feel so embarrassed about my skin and scars. I'm over that, it wasted too much of my time and I missed out on too much.
— Stephanie Nielson
The starry night moon was smiling with beauty and charm that let me know that I am the star in her sky, and she loves me forever.
— Debasish Mridha
Sometimes it's hard to look at a flower, when your dying inside.
— Anthony Liccione
Fill the canvas of life with the colors of peace bliss beauty and love.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
And there's you. You're just beautiful. Effortlessly beautiful, like nature. You have the trinity of beauty: a beautiful heart, a beautiful mind, and a beautiful soul.
— Kamand Kojouri
Millions of beauties and splendors are waiting for you. You go on moving around and around, never entering into the temple of life. The door is the heart.
— Osho, The Secret of Secrets
Man is a question mark . . . and it is a blessing—celebrate it. It is a blessing because only man is a question mark; no dog is, no tree is. The rose bush is beautiful but not as beautiful as man, and the moon is beautiful but not as beautiful as man—because they are unconscious. Only man is consciously on a quest. And how can you be on a quest if you don’t have a question mark in your being?
— Osho, The Secret of Secrets
Her dark hair was scattered and its beauty stung his eyes like smoke and ate into his heart.
— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
As the light upon the leaves of trees, as the voice of clear waters, as the stars above the mists of the world, such was her glory and her loveliness; and in her face was a shining light.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
i needed someone who wasn't hell-bent on fixing me. someone without an agenda. someone who saw beauty marks instead of flaws. someone who wouldn't leave me when my past caught up with me. someone who would love me. unconditionally.
— Adrian Michael, L O V E H U E S
Inteligence lives longer than beauty.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
The beauty of the place moved me; I loved how the clean air felt in my lungs, how far I was from everything I had ever known. People I'd hurt, people I'd failed, people who thought me a monster. Here there was no monster greater than the ragged mountains.
— Rachel Hartman, Shadow Scale
Her eyes in the half-light suggested night and violets, and for a moment he stirred again to that half-forgotten remoteness of the afternoon.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Only you can see true beauty when you focus your beautiful light on things.
— Debasish Mridha
She had never felt so light of heart and it seemed to her as though her body were a shell that lay at her feet and she pure spirit. Here was Beauty.
— m. somerset maugham
If you want to see beauty, look with love and appreciation and you will find it.
— Debasish Mridha
The day you leave, this will be your only contentment: if you have made the existence a little more beautiful.
— Osho, The Secret of Secrets
The sons of Dior and Nimloth were Elured and Elurin; and a daughter also was born to them, and she was named Elwing, which is Star-spray, for she was born on a night of stars, whose light glittered in the spray of the waterfall of Lanthir Lamath beside her father's house.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Beauty itself is a painful convulsion in the heart, an abundance of vitality in the soul, and a mad chase undertaken by the spirit until it encounters the heavens.
— Naguib Mahfouz, Palace of Desire
The thinking ability or creative intelligence for a man is same as sexuality for a woman, and believe me, the latter is far more dangerous than all the nukes in this world." - Ramana Pemmaraju
— Ramana Pemmaraju
How was she to reconcile men's desire with the desire to be beautiful in their eyes? At first she had tried for a compromise (desperate journeys abroad, where nobody knew her and no indiscretion could betray her); then, later on, she had gone radical and sacrificed her erotic life to her beauty.
— Milan Kundera, Ignorance
The greatest ugliness in the world is seeing so beautiful a creature spoil themselves on stupidity.
— Michelle Franklin, The Leaf Flute - A Marridon Novella
To live a positive life, think positive and find beauty in every situation.
— Debasish Mridha
...someone who knows she is beautiful, who is always told that she is beautiful, but who, deep down, does not feel very beautiful.
— Hilary Thayer Hamann, Anthropology of an American Girl
A smile is your best beauty asset.
— Miss Vera
It is an undoubted truth that the neck and throat of a highbred woman are incomparably more beautiful than in the woman of lower origin. Blood will tell
—  there is no disputing it.
Where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye? — Love's Labor Lost. The eyes appears to be more immediately connected with the soul than any other organ. A woman reflects every emotion, almost every thought from her two wonderful, priceless eyes, and no feature of her face is more a telltale of her nature. "Show me," says the old Chinese proverb, "a man's eyes, and I will tell you what he might have been. Show me his mouth, and I will tell you what he has been." The same is true of women. Up to thirty or thirty-five a woman may be actress enough to make her eyes tell one tale, while her life would reveal another; but little by little the true state of a woman's soul stands forth in the expression, the frankness, the furtiveness, the candor, or the boldness
— Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Harriet Hubbard Ayer's book: A Complete and Authentic Treatise on the Laws of Health and Beauty
I think for me, beauty is sincerity. I think that there are so many different ways that someone can be beautiful. You know, someone so funny that it makes them beautiful no matter how they look, because they’re sincere in it. Or somebody who’s really emotional, and moody and thoughtful and stoic, but that makes them beautiful because that’s sincerely who they are
— Taylor Swift
I would like to say that your beauty made it difficult to breathe.
— Waylon H. Lewis, Things I Would Like To Do With You
If you push me far enough, all I really know is that he was a fine fisherman.""You know more than that," my father said. "He was beautiful.
— Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It and Other Stories
Beauty isin't judged by the size of your jeans.
— Jack Barakat
Life's too awesome to waste your time thinking about someone who doesn't treat you right.
— Jack Barakat
Don’t ever forget you are beautiful, although your life, your past and your present situation may be ugly. You are beautiful.
— Ricky Maye, Barefoot Christianity: The Rough Road Ahead in the Life of a Jesus Follower
Beauty becomes uglyunder the influence ofthe demons inside the mind.
— HoBs
Then I tell you that sadness, in a way, is just another form of beauty. It can be a bit more melancholic, dramatic, heart-breaking and so, so quiet. The most emotional of things, finding its reflection in the world in decay, are those things we love the most from time to time.
— Kate Luysterborg, Blame It on My Youth: Stories by students on the art of being young
The Truth! The one we seek throughout our life, without realizing that it is inside...in here, father...in here, where I am pointing to, in my chest, in a genetic junction of stories, in the violet and golden tones of a sky that hides nothing more than its beauty. While the goddess waves at me, I see the exact half of each one of us, the one that we'll tirelessly search for every year of our lives without letting us realize that the dream is crazy.
— Pat R, Os Homens Nunca Saberão Nada Disto
The cross of Jesus says to us there is nothing God won't do to bring us home--except force us to choose him. The cross is God laying down his great power so we might be compelled by the beauty of his heart. He will not coerce us, but only woo us.
— Jonathan Martin, How to Survive a Shipwreck: Help Is on the Way and Love Is Already Here
Do you know why our poetry today and especially our philosophy are such dead issues? Because they've cut themselves off from life. Now, Greece idealized on life's own level: an artist's life was already a poetic achievement; a philosopher's life was an enactment of his philosophy; and when they were a part of life that way, instead of ignoring each other, philosophy could nourish poetry, poetry express philosophy, and together achieve an admirable persuasiveness. Today beauty no longer acts; and action no longer bothers about being beautiful; and wisdom operates on the sidelines.
— André Gide, The Immoralist
Change is inevitable. Progression is a choice. We all move, but are you going to move forward?
— Ricky Maye
Happiness lies even in little tiny butterflies. You just have to cpen up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
Don’t depend on someone else’s plumages to define your beauty. You have brighter and beautiful feathers. Just fly with them!
— Israelmore Ayivor, 101 Keys To Everyday Passion
My grandmother always told me: beauty fades but dumb is forever.
— Judge Judy Sheindlin
Don’t settle… wait for the one who treats you like an investment
—  not a test drive. Someone who inspires you to be at your best… One who looks beyond your outer beauty and falls in love with your soul.
I've learned that the flesh that clothes us means very little." Prince Ashton
— Genevra Thorne, The Beloved
Whoa, whoa!” he says as he sits up in bed. “You’re beautiful. There is no ugly now. And I’m sure there was no ugly then. It was only how you felt when you were sick. I can understand that. But I can also assure you that you have never been ugly. There is only beauty here.
— Lisa Mondello, Moment in Time
Happiness lies even in tiny little butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
If you do not cultivate your life's environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment.
— Ricky Maye
Happiness lies even in ltiny ittle butterflies. You just have to open up your eyes and see where beauty flies to beautify your world lenghtwise.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
Stop looking back when your future is ahead of you
— Ricky Maye
You told me how you hate daffodils because they’re morbid. They stick around for a month making everything lemon drop yellow, then die and get replaced by worse flowers. How the hell does an elementary schooler grasp the concept of beauty not being permanent?
— Calista Lynne, We Awaken
If you love a tree you will be more beautiful than before!
— Amit Ray, Beautify your Breath - Beautify your Life
Make no mistake about it. We are born blind, deaf, and mute. It is neither these eyes that give us sight, nor these ears that give us sound. It is not even these lips that give us voice. It is only love. Love makes us seek beauty and truth. Love yearns to connect. To experience. To understand. So close your eyes at once. Don’t utter a word. Perk up your ears and listen to that silent sound inside you where all this is found.
— Kamand Kojouri
I would like to go to sleep each night by thanking you for being with me,And wake each morning pleasantly surprised to find you are in my life,I would like to feel admiration for the littlest things you do, and how,and how you look others in the eyes, openly, with affection, sparkling but strong.Forever is not important to me, but this is.
— Waylon H. Lewis, Things I Would Like To Do With You
I think I can hear the unseen moon
— Alexandra Oliva, The Last One
Beautiful is he who recognizes what is truly beautiful,Even if the surface is ugly.Truthful is he who says what is true,Even if the truth is ugly.Ugly is he who measures beauty by its exterior,Without first weighing the interior.And ugly is the man who judges harshly what he sees looking out,Without first judging what he sees in the mirror.Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun (2010)
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
The most beautiful things often stand alone.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
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?
— Rachel Carson, The Sense of Wonder
Details" is the beauty of this life.
— Yahya
Nightingales sang about her wherever she went.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion
Come into my world. I will show you the phenomenon that Stendhal experienced. I will help you feel the cascading arpeggios of Wagner's overture. I will dance to Doga’s waltzes with you. A day spent without appreciating the beauty surrounding us is a waste. Let me appreciate you
— Kamand Kojouri
I like life, it's wonderous and chaotic and somewhere in the middle I've created a safe place to do my thing in the world ~ I can't ask for much more & I am already so thankful when everything I got
— Nikki Rowe
I keep breaking things, as if to see what's going on inside of me.
— Jenim Dibie, The Calligraphy of God
Leave your hair natural. Let your beard grow out. Leave the makeup in the bag. Wear comfortable clothes. Stop worrying so much about your looks and start looking around you. You have missed so much beauty trying to become beautiful. You have missed your own worth trying to become worthy. Let the mask break open. Let it lie on the floor. Let yourself be seen. Let yourself see.
— Vironika Tugaleva
She had never looked as well. She had entered her room as just an impossibly lovely girl. The woman who emerged was a trifle thinner, a great deal wiser, an ocean sadder. This one understood the nature of pain, and beneath the glory of her features, there was character, and a sure knowledge of suffering.
— William Goldman, The Princess Bride
All the beautiful roads are infinite because beauty gives us the feeling of infinity!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
I decided that it wasn’t pretty that I felt, but confident.
— Ruth Reichl, Delicious!
It's all very well to say beauty is under the skin, or in the eye of the beholder, but no-one would say no to being prettier if they had the chance, so it is all rot.
— Paul Kearney, The Wolf in the Attic
She lived in happy solitude, and grew old, and never worried when her beauty faded, for in her reflection she always saw a free woman.
— Leigh Bardugo, Folktales from Ravka: Little Knife, The Too-Clever Fox, The Witch of Duva
With true beauty, there is no illusion.
— James Philip Head
Beautiful writing is more than pretty prose. It creates resonance in readers’ minds with parallels, reversals, and symbols. It conjures a story world that is unique, highly detailed, and brought alive by the characters that dwell there. It offers moments of breath-catching surprise, heart-gripping insight, revelation, and self-understanding. It engages the reader’s mind with an urgent point, which we might call theme.
— Donald Maass
For blue has no mind. It is not wise, nor does it promise any wisdom. It is beautiful, and despite what the poets and philosophers and theologians have said, I think beauty neither obscures truth nor reveals it. Likewise, it leads neither towards justice nor away from it. It is pharmakon. It radiates.
— Maggie Nelson
To understand even remotely the holy omnipotence of God is to understand at least from mostly to wholly the magnificence of Christ.
— Criss Jami
Beauty depends on the unseen, the visible upon the invisible
— Elizabeth Brundage
I’m strangely comforted when I hear from scientists that human beings are the most complex creatures we know of in the universe, still, by far. Black holes are in their way explicable; the simplest living being is not. I lean a bit more confidently into the experience that life is so endlessly perplexing. I love that word. Spiritual life is a way of dwelling with perplexity—taking it seriously, searching for its purpose as well as its perils, its beauty as well as its ravages.
— Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Even nature; the restless waves, irregular trees and stars all out of line show that chaos can be beautiful!
— Sophia McMaster, The Last Companion: A conversation between Death and the last man on earth
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. Never mind that half a dozen jerks are clustered round the same person, just because they've been duped by the same pair of eyes.
— Donna Tartt, The Secret History
Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes.
— John Baillie
Pico Iyer: “And at some point, I thought, well, I’ve been really lucky to see many, many places. Now, the great adventure is the inner world, now that I’ve spent a lot of time gathering emotions, impressions, and experiences. Now, I just want to sit still for years on end, really, charting that inner landscape because I think anybody who travels knows that you’re not really doing so in order to move around—you’re traveling in order to be moved. And really what you’re seeing is not just the Grand Canyon or the Great Wall but some moods or intimations or places inside yourself that you never ordinarily see when you’re sleepwalking through your daily life. I thought, there’s this great undiscovered terrain that Henry David Thoreau and Thomas Merton and Emily Dickinson fearlessly investigated, and I want to follow in their footsteps.
— Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
She shone like the horizon when it is almost too bright to look upon.
— Daniel Abraham, Rogues
Her eyes [were] like the sudden plunge to blue depths beyond a continental shelf.
— Scott Lynch, Rogues
John O’Donohue gave voice to the connection between beauty and those edges of life—thresholds was the word he loved—where the fullness of reality becomes more stark and more clear. If you go back to the etymology of the word “threshold,” it comes from “threshing,” which is to separate the grain from the husk. So the threshold, in a way, is a place where you move into more critical and challenging and worthy fullness. There are huge thresholds in every life. You know that, for instance, if you are in the middle of your life in a busy evening, fifty things to do and you get a phone call that somebody you love is suddenly dying, it takes ten seconds to communicate that information. But when you put the phone down, you are already standing in a different world. Suddenly everything that seems so important before is all gone and now you are thinking of this. So the given world that we think is there and the solid ground we are on is so tentative. And a threshold is a line which separates two territories of spirit, and very often how we cross is the key thing.
— Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
The world is a hungry place, and Anna will feed it beauty.
— Laurel Snyder, Swan: The Life and Dance of Anna Pavlova
You do not have to be beautiful.You do not even have to be intelligent.All you have to do is practice kindness,for that is our purpose.
— Kamand Kojouri
There's no beauty without some sadness or damage, or at least the potential of damage. If something's unbreakable, you can't love it because it doesn't need your love. It's the thing that don't last that really move us.
— Rory Dunlop, What We Didn't Say
Lazy and indifferent the heron returns
—  the sky veils her stars
Thinking back on it, this evening, with my heart and my stomach all like jelly, I have finally concluded, maybe that’s what life is about: there’s a lot of despair, but also the odd moment of beauty, where time is no longer the same. It’s as if those strains of music created a sort of interlude in time, something suspended, an elsewhere that had come to us, an always within never. Yes, that’s it, an always within never. Don’t worry Renée, I won’t commit suicide and I won’t burn a thing. Because from now on, for you, I’ll be searching for those moments of always within never. Beauty, in this world.
— Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
I suddenly felt my spirit expand, for I was capable of grasping the utter beauty of the trees.
— Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
If you can't handle me with a messy bun, then you don't deserve me with a fabulous blowout.
— J.K. Wood, Before Dawn
You look at beauty because it is one of the few profound things that humans can do.
— Housuke Nojiri, Usurper of the Sun
She then thought the land enchanted into everlasting brightness and happiness; she fancied, then, that into a region so lovely no bale or woe could enter, but would be charmed away and disappear before the sight of the glorious guardian mountains. Now she knew the truth, that earth has no barrier which avails against agony.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth
The mystery and art of living are as grand as the sweep of a lifetime and the lifetime of a species. And they are as close as beginning, quietly, to mine whatever grace and beauty, whatever healing and attentiveness, are possible in this moment and the next and the next one after that.
— Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
The world is corrupt, and the way for me to make it better is not by writing letters, but joining my efforts with those of others to produce a work of beauty.
— H.S. Ede
Beautiful girls are not a decoration, arm candy, an object. They are, whether they know it or not, the very essence of our humanity.
— Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls
Beautiful girls – the true beauties – are rarely vain, arrogant, poseurs. It is the girl who makes disproportionate efforts with makeup, clothes, heels and hair who suffers these conceits. They are girls who have made themselves appear beautiful without ever reaching the exalted status of being beautiful girls.
— Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls
What constitutes a beautiful girl? It is not merely an anatomical or aesthetic quality. Beautiful girls have an inner beauty, an inner light that defeats the darkness. It is a way of walking, smiling, of being. They have a certain smell, sweet as baby breath. They radiate good will, kindness, selflessness.
— Chloe Thurlow, The Secret Life of Girls
There is a certain transcendent joy in creating a thing of beauty. But even more fulfilling is to become a being of beauty.
— Philip Gulley
The windowpane was freezing, but I was pressing myself against it anyway, like one of those dazzled little kids at the aquarium, the ones that look like they want to melt through the glass, like they're about to swoon from an overdose of beauty.
— Alyson Foster, God Is an Astronaut
Aurora looked into the mirror and smiled. She was pretty. She was a royal princess. There was about to be a ball. These were things she could, once in a while, allow herself to be happy about.
— Liz Braswell, Once Upon a Dream
I think beauty is rarely worth the trouble.” Shahrzad gripped Irsa’s hand tighter in sisterly solidarity. “But I am worth a great deal more than what you see.
— Renee Ahdieh, The Rose & the Dagger
But Perfection never appealed to me.It's the beauty and honesty behind imperfections, that I fall in love with.
— Wordions
The two of us in that room. No past, no future. All intense deep that-time-only. A feeling that everything must end, the music, ourselves, the moon, everything. That if you get to the heart of things you find sadness for ever and ever, everywhere; but a beautiful silver sadness, like a Christ face.
— John Fowles, The Collector