The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal
beauty than logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be
lovers in disguise
--George Santayana (1863-1952)
Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on
Simplicity
--Plato
You are to gather up the joys and sorrows, the struggles, the
beauty, love, dreams and hopes of every hour that they may be
consecrated at the altar of daily life.
--MacRina Wiederkehr
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see Beauty. Anyone
who keeps the ability to see Beauty never grows old.
--Frank Kafka
The ever-present phenomenon ceases to exist for our senses. It
was a city dweller, or a prisoner, or a blind man suddenly given
his sight, who first noted natural beauty.
--Remy de Gourmont
Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music
that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind,
the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them
will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of
these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be
built
--James Allen
Beauty Parlor: A place where women curl up and dye
--Aiken Drum
I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that
remains.
--Anne Frank
People are like stained glass windows -- the true beauty can be
seen only when there is light from within. The darker the night,
the brighter the windows
--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Beauty is in the eye of it's beholder.
--Unknown
Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the
eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images
of beauty, but reality (for he has hold not of an image but of a
reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to
become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may.
--Plato
Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of
God.
--Jean Anouilh
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and
asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing
is made worse or better by praise.
--Marcus Aurelius
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no
superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands
related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That
precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
--John Kenneth Galbraith
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: Its loveliness increases; it
will never pass into nothingness.
--John Keats
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only
skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want--an adorable
pancreas?
--Jean Kerr
The most common error made in matters of appearance is the
belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true
beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your
body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive--you
are leaking.
--Fran Lebowitz
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really
nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose:
you can smell it and that is all
--W. Somerset Maugham
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably
excites the sensitive soul to tears.
--Edgar Allen Poe
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even
one's own--even more, one's own, for that has been put in our
care and we are responsible for its well-being
--Katherine Anne Porter
Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be
enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases
to be enjoyed as light.
--John Ruskin
The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell
of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul
--George Sand
To me, fair friend, you never can be old For as you were when
first your eye I eyed, Such seems your beauty still.
--William Shakespeare
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it
when it has been in the house three days?
--George Bernard Shaw
It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We
must feel and be affected by it.
--Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet]
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
--John Greenleaf Whittier
She was a beauty in her youth a fact which she alone remembers
--Benjamin Constant
The beauty of male has not yet been portrayed by the only one
who can do so-the female
--G. C. Lichtenberg
Beauty is only skin deep, but it`s a valuable asset if you're
poor or haven't any sense
--Kin Hubbard
By plucking her petals, You do not gather the beauty of the
flower.
--Rabindrath Tagore
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about
you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over
a rainbow trail.
--Navajo Song
Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge
of the sundown The beauty that is to be.
--Bliss Carman (1861-1929) Canadian poet, author
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
--Franz Kafka
Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.
--Anonymous
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let
them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
--Whitney Houston
Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my
own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my
sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'tis all I have
to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.
--Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) English author
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
--David Hume
Compliments invite the person who is complimented to embrace a
new perception of him or herself. And just as layers and layers
of nacre form a pearl over an irritating grain of sand, so
compliments collect around us, developing us in all our beauty.
--Daphne Rose Kingma
Beauty fades . . . dumb is forever.
--Judge Judy
Far away in the sunshine are my highest inspirations. I may not
reach them, but I can look up and see the beauty, believe in
them and try to follow where they lead.
--Louisa May Alcott
To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of
the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the
strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your
limits, that is the courage to succeed.
--Bernard Edmonds
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician
--Unknown
May the sun bring you new energies by day, may the moon softly
restore you by night, may the rain wash away any worries you may
have. May gentle breezes refresh your soul and all the days of
your life, may you walk gently through the world and know its
beauty.
--Unknown
There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to
and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the
world - its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you
understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of
life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. If an
activity is not grounded in 'to love' or 'to learn,' it does not
have value.
--Anne Rice
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I
see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings My
wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in
you. Let us work together for unity and love.
--Mahatma Gandhi
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their
dreams.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its
essence unity. -
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