We’ve sourced some of the most interesting and thought-provoking Beauty Quotes from William Hazlitt, John Erskine, Charles Baudelaire, Rashida Jones, Thomas Carlyle. Each of the following quotes is overflowing with creativity, and knowledge.
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
There’s a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
I pretty much borrow my entire beauty regime from my mom.
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
I love sports because it takes me away from reality, and I tell people, ‘No matter how bad your life is, if you are having problems at home, you are having problems at work, that’s the beauty of sports.’
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.
It’s nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you.
Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it.
Beauty and femininity are ageless and can’t be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won’t like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it’s based on femininity.
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
People tend not to use this word beauty because it’s not intellectual – but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.
Beauty seen is never lost, God’s colors all are fast.
How goodness heightens beauty!
I didn’t have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do.
There’s beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be able to open your eyes and witness it. Some days, that’s harder than others.
I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty – a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don’t think one should have to apologise for it.
You can’t stand at the Bellagio and watch these seven story fountains and not go, ‘That’s something of extraordinary man-made beauty.’
Physical beauty is such a strange thing.
Winning a pageant or sometimes simply participating in a contest can change your life. Outer beauty is just a part of the judgement, but what’s important are your views and opinions that are shown to the world.
O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!
My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they’re beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.
Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
Really, at the end of the day, the only thing you can control is yourself; the only person you can truly educate is yourself. You have to redefine what beauty is to you so you can’t be affected by what people are saying.
My mother is a big believer in being responsible for your own happiness. She always talked about finding joy in small moments and insisted that we stop and take in the beauty of an ordinary day. When I stop the car to make my kids really see a sunset, I hear my mother’s voice and smile.
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.
Every performance is different. That’s the beauty of it.
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
There is beauty in everything.
Cherish sunsets, wild creatures and wild places. Have a love affair with the wonder and beauty of the earth.
Exuberance is beauty.
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy.
People are like stained – glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
Beauty is the lover’s gift.
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
You, Eternal Trinity, are my Creator, and I am the work of Your hands, and I know through the new creation which You have given me in the blood of Your Son, that You are enamored of the beauty of Your workmanship.
Congress has an obligation to protect our country’s natural beauty, embodied in our nation’s parks, rivers, and breathtaking landscapes.
The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments – the Bill of Rights. I’m a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart.
Whenever I talk about the Bahamas and its beauty, I could never stop talking about my God, who has given us all of this beauty.
I always say you can never be extravagant with beauty. Beauty is God made real. Beauty is life.
Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
Beauty has always been an element of discussion for black women, whether or not we were the ones having the conversation.
‘Handsome’ means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered – and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn’t hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.
I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.
Well I do find the beauty in animals. I find beauty everywhere. I find beauty in my garden.
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
I always keep a damp beauty blender and a powder compact in my purse, and I touch up a lot.
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.
Just because a woman is beautiful doesn’t mean she can’t be a good wife. If her beauty affects her personality, then it’s her mentality that’s at fault… not the tilt of her nose.
What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.
Poetry allies itself with beauty – a supreme union – but never uses it as its ultimate goal or sole nourishment.
Beauty ain’t always a little, cute colored flower. Beauty is anything where people be like, ‘Damn.’
Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature’s tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
As I get older – and wiser of course – I appreciate natural beauty in a different way.
To love beauty is to see light.
Beauty is not skin-deep; it can be a means of self-affirmation, a true indicator of personality and confidence.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
Pastry is different from cooking because you have to consider the chemistry, beauty and flavor. It’s not just sugar and eggs thrown together. I tell my pastry chefs to be in tune for all of this. You have to be challenged by using secret or unusual ingredients.
An image of the Earth, its landscapes, directly affects people. The beauty of the Earth creates enormous emotion, and through that emotion, you can transmit knowledge and raise consciousness.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
Looking at flowers, simple things in life. I don’t need to look at gold and a castle; sometimes its very simple things that are very beautiful. I am keeping my eyes fresh to find beauty in many places, and in gold, too, sometimes!
She gave up beauty in her tender youth, gave all her hope and joy and pleasant ways; she covered up her eyes lest they should gaze on vanity, and chose the bitter truth.
Social media has revolutionised how beauty is curated, captured, and consumed.
We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.
Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.
Beauty without expression is boring.
We have been educated into believing someone else’s concept of the deity, and someone else’s standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don’t apologize.
I always loved aesthetics. Not particularly fashion, but an idea of beauty.
Why is it that scuba divers and surfers are some of the strongest advocates of ocean conservation? Because they’ve spent time in and around the ocean, and they’ve personally seen the beauty, the fragility, and even the degradation of our planet’s blue heart.
Let’s cultivate an environment, not just in beauty pageants but in society in general, where we argue like we’re right but listen like we’re wrong.
There’s a certain beauty and majesty to Wimbledon. The elegance, the way the grass looks on TV.
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters.’
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.
Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.
The happiness I feel in having a family has brought me a real beauty.
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Though beauty gives you a weird sense of entitlement, it’s rather frightening and threatening to have others ascribe such importance to something you know you’re just renting for a while.
The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
I find beauty in the grotesque, like most artists.
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
My duty is to try to reach beauty. Cinema is emotion. When you laugh you cry.
I guess you could say my beauty routine is to do fun stuff with great people, laugh lots, work hard and be kind: because when I’m stimulated, invigorated and exhilarated, that’s when I feel beautiful.
Baseball loyalists cite the game’s legendary numbers – 300 wins, 500 homers, 3,000 hits – as evidence of the sport’s elegance, beauty, and gravitas. What no one mentions is how wretched and painful it is to actually watch a former star gasp and sputter his way toward a legendary number.
Western beauty is considered the dominant beauty in the world. Tall, blond, blue eyes. I always felt a little self-conscious because I wanted to be more Caucasian. I tried to get bigger eyes… I would dress preppy.
I’m such an avid magazine reader – music, art, beauty magazines – and I found that food and restaurants were pouring into everything I cared about. Whether it was the pop-up concept, or some mysterious mini-mall restaurant, I got swept up in the sexy romance of the food movement.
Beauty is grace and confidence. I’ve learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.
What is beautiful enchants me. I mean not just physical beauty but a wider concept of beauty. There is beauty in poetry and in great musical or singing performances. There is beauty everywhere if you can just see it.
I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I’ve always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.
If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either.
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Remember that physical beauty is evolution’s way of assuring us that the other person doesn’t have too many intestinal parasites.
Beauty is not generic, bland, and clinical. It isn’t all things to all people. The Cathedral of Notre Dame in its endlessly intricate detail was beautiful. Modern office buildings are not.
You can’t stand at the Bellagio and watch these seven story fountains and not go, ‘That’s something of extraordinary man-made beauty.’
Our scientific age demands that we provide definitions, measurements, and statistics in order to be taken seriously. Yet most of the important things in life cannot be precisely defined or measured. Can we define or measure love, beauty, friendship, or decency, for example?
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Beauty comes from the inside.
The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
The architect should strive continually to simplify; the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
The human face is the organic seat of beauty. It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance.
We didn’t have a beauty shop as I grew up.
My beauty secret is to try to keep my heart as open and happy as I can, because it really makes the sad lines on my face look better.
Don’t get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
I always hear myself saying, ‘She’s a beauty!’ or ‘He’s a beauty!’ or ‘What a beauty!’ but I never know what I’m talking about.
I am a thing of beauty.
My idea of beauty is somebody that doesn’t have to try too much, someone who is effortless and fresh.
Enhancing a woman’s silhouette and enhancing a woman’s beauty – both contribute to enhancing her confidence, so they’re synonymous, really.
We tell them that we believe it will be beautiful because that is our specialty, we only create joy and beauty. We have never done a sad work. Through the drawings, we hope a majority will be able to visualize it.
A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That’s the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
There’s a lot of beauty in the world, so go hang out and go be a part of the solution rather than the problem.
I’m proud that today, at 43 years old, I’ve come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.
The best news of the Christian gospel is that the supremely glorious Creator of the universe has acted in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection to remove every obstacle between us and himself so that we may find everlasting joy in seeing and savoring his infinite beauty.
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
Beauty is our weapon against nature; by it we make objects, giving them limit, symmetry, proportion. Beauty halts and freezes the melting flux of nature.
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
Beauty, to me, is kind, generous, and people that are humble.
I can’t live without my beauty products. I love to be in my bathroom with my candles lit, morning, noon and night. I like taking hot baths and hot showers, using my body scrubs and lotions.
The landscape painter must walk in the fields with a humble mind. No arrogant man was ever permitted to see Nature in all her beauty.
Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn’t define you as a person. Rather, it’s an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
I feel an important part of beauty is not only what you do on the outside but also what you put into the inside. Good fresh food with many vegetables along with love and caring for others. I spend way more time serving others than I do on my beauty routine daily.
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Conservation is key to preserving many of the world’s natural beauty spots, so do your best to help by keeping to designated footpaths and being a discerning souvenir collector.
Beauty doesn’t matter because in the end, we all lose our looks and all we have is our heart.
Be sure what you want and be sure about yourself. Fashion is not just beauty, it’s about good attitude. You have to believe in yourself and be strong.
Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn’t define you as a person. Rather, it’s an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
That’s the beauty of short films; their strength lies in delivering a message creatively and simply.
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
This is the artist, then, life’s hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty’s miser, glory’s slave.
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
That’s the beauty of being above board – you can brag about your winnings.
The breadfruit is a superb tree, about 60 feet high, with deep green, shining leaves, a foot broad, sharply and symmetrically cut, worthy, from their exceeding beauty of form, to take the place of the acanthus in architectural ornament, and throwing their pale green fruit into delicate contrast.
Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.
Sunscreen, in the world of beauty, is the ultimate in adulting.
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction’s path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together.
There’s design, and there’s art. Good design is total harmony. There’s no better designer than nature – if you look at a branch or a leaf, it’s perfect. It’s all function. Art is different. It’s about emotion. It’s about suffering and beauty – but mostly suffering!
She got her looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.
You can’t really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.
Jammu and Kashmir has a scenic beauty and I feel that the film industry rather than going abroad in countries like Switzerland and Australia, should visit Kashmir – which is the only Heaven on Earth for the shoots.
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
The beauty of my journey is that it’s always been pretty unpredictable, so stay tuned.
I consider fitness, diet, and beauty to be essential to a balanced self.
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.
I get to escape this crazy world that I live in. I think that’s the true beauty of running.
When you feel great, you emanate a certain energy that translates as beautiful. I don’t care if you have the standard beauty or not; it’s that X-factor that comes through, and the basis of that is good health.
That’s part of the beauty of being an actress: you get to explore different facets of what it is to be a human being and what it is to explore different personalities, and actually, that’s one of the things I love about it.
The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest, and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.
My definition of love is being full. Complete. It makes everything lighter. Beauty is something you see. Love is something you feel.
Being you is what defines real beauty.
The beauty of where I’m from – this small little town called Wallburg, North Carolina – I didn’t have a TV; I was out playing ball with my dad, shooting clay pigeons.
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
We have received a heritage of craftsmanship, of aesthetics, of taste, of identity. Our brands have the beauty to preserve and perpetuate it.
Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there’s beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you’re in love.
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal.
Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage.
The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.
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.
The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won’t let you.
I’ve suffered quite a lot, to the point where I’ve experienced death. Years before I wasn’t fit to die, but I understand life better now. Death is nice, death is beauty.
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
I truly believe diversity is beauty.
I love glamour and artificial beauty. I love the idea of artifice and dressing up and makeup and hair.
Mother liked beauty wherever she found it, and she found it in many different places, both in nature and in contemporary art. And that’s where they pretty much parted company. Father… anything that was abstract would to him automatically be not very good.
Beauty is a fragile gift.
Makeup is not a mask that covers up your beauty; it’s a weapon that helps you express who you are from the inside.
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
Beauty means expression and being your most authentic self.
You have to embrace your body, whether it’s curvy or whatever you may be. You have to embrace who you are. Beauty comes from the inside not out.
Filipinos don’t wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can’t live like that or live on that, that’s what I’ve learnt.
The privilege I’ve had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works… but what I’ve discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition – to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined – the impression was overwhelming.
To me, beauty is confidence. I think beauty comes from one’s confident inner self and attitude. Make-up and styling are the cherries on top of your beautiful inner-self!
Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy – how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.
I think every single imperfection adds to your beauty. I’d rather be imperfect than perfect.
Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He has told us, He created us in His own image and likeness.
The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Cultivate the habit of zest. Purposefully seek out the beauty in the seemingly trivial. Especially in the trivial. The colors and shapes of the foods you eat. The shadows a vase makes on your table. The interesting faces of the people on the bus with you.
Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
I think something I explore a little bit in my music is how there’s this majestic, natural beauty in the Pacific Northwest, but also this kind of underlying eeriness.
For me, the beauty of a person is a matter of the whole package. You have to look at the whole thing, not just a matter of outward appearance or whatever. It has to do with one’s character, personality, upbringing and so on.
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
Enhance and intensify one’s vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.
The foundation of beauty is the body.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
You think about the beauty and what you want to transmit. If I think about designing, I can’t design.
I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.
French women famously take care over their appearance, but this wasn’t instilled in me as I grew up. I was taught that beauty comes from different places, from the inside and from the outside.
People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
This idea that being youthful is the only thing that’s beautiful or attractive simply isn’t true. I don’t want to be an ‘ageless beauty.’ I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.
If you do something that you’re proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn’t there before – you can’t beat that.
There’s beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it – and it’s a lesson.
I think every person has their own identity and beauty. Everyone being different is what is really beautiful. If we were all the same, it would be boring.
I think confidence is a true form of beauty.
People say I’m extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
There is a life after being at the pinnacle of your beauty. Plenty of life and fun.
Every flaw, scar, or mark you may have adds to your beauty.
I really admire a woman for her intelligence, her personality. Beauty is not enough.
A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
We live in a very chaotic world that sometimes we – it just seems like a mess. One of the reasons why we listen to music, and to great classical music in particular, is that everything is in an order and in a place and has a beauty that you see in nature, that you see and that people look for when they look for God.
When it comes to the qualities that I look for in a partner, I’d say looks are a factor but the inner beauty is more important as it adds to the personality.
Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
My interpretation of the word ‘ugly’… I like ugly beauty. That can happen. In France, we have phrase ‘jolie laide.’ We like certain women who are not pretty or cute – it’s the opposite in France of pretty. It’s more strange and interesting.
I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty… in every form.
With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasn’t just about being noticed, you know?
I believe that children are our future. Teach them well and let them lead the way. Show them all the beauty they possess inside.
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
Self-care is the non-negotiable. That’s the thing that you have to do. And beauty is the thing that can be the benefit of the self-care. Beauty is not the point. Beauty is just a cute side-effect from self-care.
Beauty awakens the soul to act.
There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.
Growing up, I was obsessed with Disney movies like ‘The Little Mermaid,’ ‘Aladdin’ and ‘Beauty And The Beast.’ I was always singing the songs from these movies, so to find myself in the studio with Alan Menken was an amazing experience. In fact, it was a dream come true.
For me, true beauty has nothing to do with wrinkles and everything to do with the fact that my maternal grandmother raised five children just after the war and remained a fighter throughout her life. True beauty is the slick of red lipstick my paternal grandmother would put on before going to church on Sunday.
There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
It’s a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I’d be rotten to the core.
I don’t have any beauty shop memories. I remember the barber shop.
I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.
And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
I believe it is only when one comes out of adversity, that one starts to see real beauty.
A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.
Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.
The Western man declares that in order to be beautiful, a woman must look 14 years old. If she dares to look 50, or worse, 60, she is beyond the pale. By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility.
You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.
Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.
And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.
Beauty is nature’s brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.
What the canons of beauty transmit is an idea of taking care of yourself. Eating well, living healthily, doing sports. It’s a way to highlight the natural beauty in each of us. The natural body that all of us are born with.
Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away.
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it.
Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.
Integrity reveals beauty.
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.
It’s sad when girls think they don’t have anything going on except being pretty.
A few years ago I was participating in a comedic ‘Inner Beauty Pageant’ and I had to figure out a talent very last-minute. I always loved Tyra Banks’s ‘We were all rooting for you!’ moment, and so I decided to lip-sync live to the six-minute entirety of it as my talent.
When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two – beauty and violence – live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
I didn’t even know what a beauty editor was. It sounds like a fictional job if you think about it. You get to test lipstick and perfume and nail polish legitimately and call it work.
Beauty fades, stupid is forever.
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.
Focused reading is so important, and I’m just as guilty as everyone. I have to force myself to slow down, often printing things out or using print as a medium for things that are most important or for things whose beauty would be lost if I use other modes of reading.
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?
Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone’s face or body.
I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn’t doing.
But my most favourite pursuit, after my daily exertions at the Foundry, was Astronomy. There were frequently clear nights when the glorious objects in the Heavens were seen in most attractive beauty and brilliancy.
Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects – making it possible… to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
It’s amazing what sleep does for your looks.
With skin and beauty, it always starts from within. So I try to eat very healthy.
The beauty of a finely worked object points to the beauty of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the craftsmanship points to the beauty of the name which was the source of the craftsmanship. The beauty of the name of the craftsman’s art points to the beauty of the craftsman’s attributes manifested in that art.
I will run with perfect style when they start judging races for their beauty, like figure-skating. For now, I just want to run as fast as possible.
Embrace the color of your skin and your own beauty.
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.
There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.
When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It’s about having an attitude of gratitude.
Citizens of Ukraine will never enjoy the beauty of peace unless we settle down our relations with Russia.
Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.
Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.
You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.
I don’t see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn’t need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.
Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
From his roots as a slave, the American Negro – sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful – has touched, illuminated, and influenced the most remote preserves of world civilisation. I and my dance theater celebrate this trembling beauty.
For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.
Look after yourself from within, and your beauty will shine through on your skin.
In marriage do thou be wise: prefer the person before money, virtue before beauty, the mind before the body; then thou hast a wife, a friend, a companion, a second self.
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
The idea of beauty today is a bloody mess. It’s really awful. You look in the fashion magazines and see all of these retouched people. Some guys called retouchers go on the computer and take away everything that you are and then call it photography. I think it’s such an insult.
Part of the beauty of Victoria’s Secret modeling is that they are called ‘Angels’ for a reason – because they’re aesthetics are supposed to be unobtainable. But so are mine. No one could ever be me. Look exactly as I do. Be exactly as I am.
I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
Beauty and brains, pleasure and usability – they should go hand in hand.
I never quite understood why Disney hadn’t made a sincere fairy tale since ‘Beauty and the Beast.’
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing.
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
I’ve learned to duplicate my beauty regimen from drug store products.
Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due – she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.
I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the attractions which command our admiration.
I feel fortunate that I’m not a beauty. I’m not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
It’s not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
Never once does ‘Snow White’ herself look in the mirror so she isn’t aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It’s really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.
The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.
For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
I mix all different oils – my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I’m really into natural beauty and natural healing. Peppermint is really good if you put it on your stomach for a tummy ache; lavender is kind of all-purpose – I think everyone should carry it.
Men want a battle to fight, an adventure to live, and a beauty to rescue. That is what is written in their hearts. That is what little boys play at. That is what men’s movies are about. You just see it. It is undeniable.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
We’re here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That’s what art forms are about.
For all of nature’s wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.
Beauty is too easy. Often in my work, I take beautiful objects and do extreme things to them so that they are overlaid with something a bit more sinister and violent.
The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.
I tend to like to make my statements more in fashion than in beauty, because what I normally respond to is when someone looks really effortless and deconstructed, beauty-wise, and they’re fashion is really grand. Someone like Kate Moss is a great example.
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
My definition of beauty is happiness. I believe that when you are happy, it shines through and makes you a more attractive and beautiful person!
Search for beauty without features, something deeper than any signs.
I don’t look in the mirror; don’t like what I see; never have. I am not my idea of a beauty. Never was. This is not false modesty. I’ve just never been enamoured of my face, which of course is magnified umpteen times on screen.
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me, and at length the longing has been satisfied.
Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
In Wyoming, the beauty of our mountains is matched only by the grit of our people.
My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.
There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.
In particular I want to talk about natural black hair, and how it’s not just hair. I mean, I’m interested in hair in sort of a very aesthetic way, just the beauty of hair, but also in a political way: what it says, what it means.
Women are more difficult to caricature than men – partly because beauty is more difficult to caricature.
Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.
The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel.
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.
The seventies is what I love. Soft, touchable beauty is what I love.
The beauty of the game is strength, stamina and technique and when you shorten the game, technique goes for a toss and the quality of badminton will surely go down in this system.
My father was a scientist and his colleagues were into pathology and microbiology, and study of viruses and how it spreads and mutates, so I understand the beauty with which nature works and more beautifully how our immune systems work.
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.
The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings.
Most of us who become experimental physicists do so for two reasons; we love the tools of physics because to us they have intrinsic beauty, and we dream of finding new secrets of nature as important and as exciting as those uncovered by our scientific heroes.
Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.
Hold fast to youth and beauty.
I am so honored to join the company of a roster as celebrated and diverse as Covergirl’s. I can’t wait to share some of my own beauty tips with fans and work alongside Covergirl to continue empowering girls and women to celebrate their individuality.
Beauty has no boundaries, no rules, no colors. Beauty is like a religion. You can include everything inside it.
The difference between Marilyn Monroe and the early Pamela Anderson is not that great. What’s amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.
In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young.
You don’t have to save the world, but you can be in the world-that’s where the beauty comes from.
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
Beauty is not everything!
Mathematics has beauty and romance. It’s not a boring place to be, the mathematical world. It’s an extraordinary place; it’s worth spending time there.
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.
Parisian women have an inner elegance that’s envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn’t want to be like them? That’s the trick – to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.
The value of beauty and inspiration is very much underrated, no question. But I want to be clear: I’m not trying to be anyone’s savior. I’m just trying to think about the future and not be sad.
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.
We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery also has its beauty. Neither do I believe that the spirit of adventure runs any risk of disappearing in our world.
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.
Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.
The beauty of my journey is that it’s always been pretty unpredictable, so stay tuned.
We live in a culture where European beauty standards are dominant.
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that’s stripped down.
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.
‘Changes in Latitudes’ began when I was looking at a photograph of a sea turtle swimming underwater. I had such a strong feeling for the beauty of this ancient creature, at home in the sea. On the spot, I wanted to swim with that turtle. I began to imagine a character who would do just that.
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.
Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.
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.
Beauty is only skin deep. I think what’s really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
My message is: beauty has no gender. At the end of the day beauty is beauty.
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
Science shows us truth and beauty and fills each day with a fresh wonder of the exquisite order which governs our world.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.
Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Beauty is health. Health is beauty.
My biggest beauty tip would be exfoliation, exfoliation, exfoliation! After a lifetime of almost no breakouts, I started having some pretty embarrassing ones and learned that if you don’t exfoliate, your skin has a hard time shedding the old skin and therefore clogs your pores and causes zits.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.
As a girl, you’re supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?
People don’t associate red hair, pale skin, and freckles with beauty.
Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.
We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.
The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance.
Honestly, Korean beauty standards are harsh. People are even putting pressure on non-celebrities to be super skinny, and the standards of thinness are just getting worse.
I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.
You don’t have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don’t need any special equipment – that’s the beauty of it.
Everybody does what she needs. And if you want plastic surgery, and then you feel better, why not? There is no law. I’ve nothing against using something to help your beauty – but do it in a good way, with intelligence.
The beauty of the past belongs to the past.
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
I find beauty in imperfection.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
This great country, this India, is woven of the rich individual strands of our regions, languages, religions, traditions, and communities through the ages. Yet its vibrant beauty can be seen only as a whole, a single seamless fabric, much greater than the sum of all the strands.
Kant described beauty as a feeling of ungraspability: this is why the beauty experience is beyond concept.
Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.
The dull routine of our daily job takes on a new significance, assumes a beauty and importance undreamt of before, if we consider it from the angle of service to God.
I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.
My beauty icon is the love between my mother and father.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine.
Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe and Anna Magnani – women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn’t submit to any standard of beauty – they defined it.
I guess the point of that song ‘Troublemaker, Doppelganger’ is trying to navigate the worth of beauty and if it’s hurtful or helpful to value beauty. If it’s a curse or a blessing. Is that something really negative and morbid, like the hearse, or is it the limousine – a glamorous symbol of enjoying life?
‘Beauty’ is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
Beauty breeds beauty; truth triggers truth. The cure for writer’s block is therefore to read.
Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!
A woman can be very beautiful and an ideal model and she will photograph incredibly well, but she’ll appear in film and it won’t work. What works is some fusion of physical beauty with some mental field or whatever you call it. I don’t know.
Beauty is not generic, bland, and clinical. It isn’t all things to all people. The Cathedral of Notre Dame in its endlessly intricate detail was beautiful. Modern office buildings are not.
We have been educated into believing someone else’s concept of the deity, and someone else’s standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don’t apologize.
I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don’t work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers.
Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one’s self.
I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don’t expect it.
The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.
I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.
You know when I feel inwardly beautiful? When I am with my girlfriends and we are having a ‘goddess circle’.
Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!
This is the beauty of the Qur’an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur’an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God’s creation in general.
I am a natural beauty. I can wear sweatpants and running shoes and I stop traffic on the street – people have accidents when they drive and they spot me.
Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that.
The beauty about the playoffs is how you make an adjustment, how you come back game-to-game, and to be locked in and focused to win.
I’ve suffered quite a lot, to the point where I’ve experienced death. Years before I wasn’t fit to die, but I understand life better now. Death is nice, death is beauty.
There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
I get to escape this crazy world that I live in. I think that’s the true beauty of running.
The woman with dark hair, wide hips, and a few extra pounds has always been the essence of beauty in Morocco.
It is conventional to call ‘monster’ any blending of dissonant elements. I call ‘monster’ every original inexhaustible beauty.
From the first opening of our eyes, it is the light that attracts us. We clutch aimlessly with our baby fingers at the gossamer-motes in the sunbeam, and we die reaching out after an ineffable blending of earthly and heavenly beauty which we shall never fully comprehend.
I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness. Heaven knows that John the Baptist was not more eager to get all his fellow sinners into the Jordan than I to baptize all of mine in the beauty of God’s mountains.
The most fascinating thing for me is that ‘Peter Pan’ is a fairy tale, but now, this Filipino kid is a part of the folklore. Can you imagine telling the story of ‘Sleeping Beauty’ or ‘Cinderella,’ and all of a sudden there’s a Filipino kid in there after all these years?
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
I’m not super-polite or civil – I try to be civil, but I’m not into Seattle’s niceties, and I’m not hugely wired into Seattle’s natural beauty.
Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.
We’re here to bring beauty to the world and make a difference in this planet. That’s what art forms are about.
I like the idea of being warm and secure. That’s what home should be. That you have a sense of warmth, security, love, and you love the things around you and surround yourself with beauty.
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
My favourite animal is the koala, but his life would be boring. I would rather be a giraffe so that I could contemplate the beauty of Africa.
As a Californian, I feel lucky to live in what is truly the Golden State – a place of sunshine, agricultural bounty, natural beauty, technological innovation, and boundless optimism.
I’m in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things, I think, on the inside, show on the outside.
A women’s greatest asset is her beauty.
‘Beauty’ is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
Art is built on the deepest themes of human meaning: good and evil, beauty and ugliness, life and death, love and hate. No other story has incarnated those themes more than the story of Jesus.
Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Plastic surgery can’t make you younger or more beautiful, because beauty is in your eyes, isn’t it? It’s in your soul; you can’t strap it on.
After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty.
I just want to say to women, ‘Be yourself – it’s the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that – and it takes a few heartbreaks – you can be happy.’
It was Chicago with its World’s Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Beauty fades! I just turned 29, so I probably don’t have that many good years left in me.
What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money.
Cogsworth, the character I did on ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ could be a bit flamboyant onscreen, because basically, he is a cartoon. But they didn’t want Cogsworth to become Disney’s gay character, because it got around a gay man was playing him.
Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
I may be the first actress to admit that beauty doesn’t hold you back. I think beauty is a gift that you have to make the most of. I’ve worked hard at trying to look my best.
There’s beauty in imperfection.
And for me, the real world involves everything: risk, danger, beauty, energy, all we meet with in the real world.
Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
The beauty of the horror genre is that you can smuggle in these harder stories, and the genre comes with certain demands, but mostly you need to find the catharsis in whatever story you’re telling. What may be seen as a deterrent for audiences in one genre suddenly becomes a virtue in another genre.
Mascara can definitely be one of the hardest parts of the beauty routine. Nothing is worse than when you are applying your mascara, and you’ve worked an hour on the most flawless blended eye shadow, and with one slip of the finger, your mascara is all over your face.
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
The beauty of any conspiracy theory is that because it can’t be proved, that just makes it more ‘real.’ It’s not a question of believing or not believing, really; it’s more a question of just accepting a series of probabilities that lead to an undeniable conclusion.
Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.
My best beauty secret ever is to drink a lot of water!
I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs – at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral.
Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Beauty at 70 years old isn’t the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
I’ve seen the majestic beauty of nature and the overwhelming perfection of it. To me, there’s nothing closer to God than that.
I like a girl with natural beauty.
The real beauty of it – key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
The Lord did not people the earth with a vibrant orchestra of personalities only to value the piccolos of the world. Every instrument is precious and adds to the complex beauty of the symphony.
Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, ‘Aw, her life must be amazing.’ Everyone does it. That’s human nature to believe that beauty is everything.
Beauty is altogether in the eye of the beholder.
For me, beauty comes from natural happiness. I think that a woman glows, and a man, even, when they’re healthy and they’re happy.
The beauty of diversification is it’s about as close as you can get to a free lunch in investing.
The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.
That’s the beauty of education, kids taking lessons out of the classroom and back into their own world where they can positively affect their family, their friends, and their greater community.
Whenever I have any beauty doubts, I always look up the Internet for solutions and remedies!
Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.
The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
My beauty icons are women whose images are self-created.
Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.
Youthful beauty is a poor indicator of long-term appeal in a man.
If you don’t know your worth, if you don’t know your value, if you don’t know how fantabulous you are – it’s going to be hard for other people to see it. Being appreciative of self is beauty to me.
So far as I am concerned, I could not be accused of having set eyes, or having wished to set eyes, upon Darius’ wife: on the contrary, I have refused even to listen to those who spoke to me of her beauty.
Beauty lasts five minutes. Maybe longer if you have a good plastic surgeon.
I’d like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn’t matter, but it doesn’t hurt.
Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.
It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
It’s not just Ethiopia, but Africa in general – most of the media concentrates on what’s not going well. But there is so much beauty there. When you go, it changes everything. It changes you, your life, and the way you see things. The challenge is changing the image of Africa that’s been anchored in people for years now.
Beauty is subjective and should not be limited to only what we see on the outside.
What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world’s beauty, is everything!
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.
Peace is the beauty of life. It is sunshine. It is the smile of a child, the love of a mother, the joy of a father, the togetherness of a family. It is the advancement of man, the victory of a just cause, the triumph of truth.
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against your will, whose notion of beauty always differs from yours and whose means are often too limited for active assistance to your intentions!
The idea of the beauty of diversity came from just growing up where I grew up. Los Angeles is a very big city – there’s Little Ethiopia, Little Armenia, Little Tokyo, Chinatown, there’s African-Americans, Latinos, Europeans.
I am quite familiar with Dubai and its design scene. I have been a regular visitor for more than 10 years. It is hard to name an area where hospitality, friendship, culture, ambition, and beauty are so highly regarded.
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.
Our bodies are always going to change, and we might not always love that, but it really has nothing to do with true beauty. True beauty comes from within.
The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.
The beauty of any artwork is that it becomes the person that’s watching it: What do you take out of it?
Majesty is a thing of beauty to behold, whatever the particular enterprise.
I just want to build the best buildings. It’s not about me, it’s about the buildings, creating a space where society can gather and marvel in beauty and nature.
The beauty standards had nothing to do with me in Mexico. It was such a bizarre, dire time for my hair. I was living in a small town where there was not any semblance of an African community. I’d have to take the bus to Mexico City to find a woman who could braid my hair. That was two and a half hours away.
We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist.
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
This whole beauty thing is something I’ve never comprehended.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
Beauty is subjective, so people’s opinions don’t really matter.
To me, ‘sexy’ is a kind of beauty, a kind of self-expression, one that is to be celebrated.
There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.
Because beauty isn’t enough, there must be something more.
There is beauty and humility in imperfection.
I don’t love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn’t mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just… boring. Perfect is what’s natural or real; that is beauty.
Love is the beauty of the soul.
Coral reefs represent some of the world’s most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea’s most exquisite species will not survive.
Black beauty – he’s a dark horse.
I feel it is important not to get overly obsessed and overly carried away with just the physical aspect. There is more to beauty than just the physical appearance. You are also a complete person, and a woman should have an identity beyond just the way she looks.
I was not a good-lookin’ girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn’t pretty. I wasn’t cool.
It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.
Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Beauty is what I feel my life is about – the garden, the house, whatever. I see the world that way, yet it isn’t.
She is a peacock in everything but beauty.
Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full of the beauty of life.
Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.
What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don’t see somebody’s brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.
The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility.
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
Beauty is only skin deep.
Just try the effect of putting beauty into your life, a little every day. You will find it magical. It will broaden and light up your outlook upon the world as the acquisition of money or fame never can.
The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist.
The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn’t mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.
Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it’s just who you are. You’re embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don’t get to see that.
I know I’m not everyone’s taste and that’s fine, and that is the beauty of digital and radio that you can find what you want to listen to.
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.
I’m not ugly, but my beauty is a total creation.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist – that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.
No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.
It’s unnatural to believe death usually has a beauty and a concordance and is usually a coming together of your life’s work. It leads to frustration for the patient. And it leaves grieving families convinced they did something wrong.
We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.
Would Jove appoint some flower to reign, in matchless beauty on the plain, the Rose (mankind will all agree). The Rose the queen of flowers should be.
I despise women wearing too much makeup. It hides their actual beauty.
I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn’t have a nose job and money and if you weren’t thin, you weren’t cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn’t pretty enough to be on television.
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.
