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Quotes inspuired by Beauty

collected by [Mordigen]



"There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty."
Joseph Addison

"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."
Anouk Aimée

"I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any."
Emma Albani

"Love is a great beautifier."
Louisa May Alcott

"Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

"This--this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice...a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape."
Roger Bannister

"When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful."
Barbara Bloom

"Pick a man for his human qualities, his values, his compatibility with you, rather than what he represents in status, power or good looks."
Carol Botwin

"I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them; God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honored for them."
Robert Bridges

"To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind."
Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

"The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum."
Alexis Carrel

"There's no joy even in beautiful Wisdom, unless one have holy Health."
Simondes of Ceos

"The beauty of empowering others is that your own power is not diminished in the process."
Barbara Colorose

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
Confucius

"It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing."
Marquis de Sade

"I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself."
Marlene Dietrich

"Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight."
Phyllis

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."
John Donne

"To dream anything that you want to dream. That's 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

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed."
Albert Einstein

"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
Richard Buckminster Fuller

"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."
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

"We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams."
Kahlil Gibran

"Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight."
Terry Goodkind

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
Eden Ahbez (no, it did NOT originally come from Moulin Rouge ;P)

"What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth."
John Keats

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
Helen Adams Keller

"Beauty, n. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband."
Ambrose Bierce

"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it."
W. Somerset Maugham

"Beauty is ever to the lonely mind
A shadow fleeting; she is never plain.
She is a visitor who leaves behind
The gift of grief, the souvenir of pain. "
Robert Nathan




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