Motivational Quotes

Beauty

Every beauty which is seen here below by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come

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Best Quotes about Beauty

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

Teena Booth

To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.

Klee, Paul

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.

Margaret Cho

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.

Spenser, Edmund

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

Rostand, Jean

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Horton, Doug

Beauty and seduction is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we love.

Louie Schwartzberg

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Sackville-West, Vita

To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

Shakespeare, William

10.

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.

Klee, Paul

11.

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.

Porter, Katherine Anne

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All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory -- of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Baudelaire, Charles

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O, thou art fairer than the evening air clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.

Marlowe, Christopher

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Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

Proverb, French

15.

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.

Camus, Albert

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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.

Salma Hayek

17.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

18.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

O'Hara, Frank

19.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

Bernstein, Al

20.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Reade, Charles

21.

Beauty. The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.

Bierce, Ambrose

22.

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

Weil, Simone

23.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Mendelssohn, Felix

24.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want --an adorable pancreas?

Kerr, Jean

25.

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Andre, Father

26.

The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.

Halifax, Edward F.

27.

One evening I sat Beauty on my knees --And I found her bitter --And I reviled her.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The esthete stands in the same relation to beauty as the pornographer stands to love, and the politician stands to life.

Kraus, Karl

29.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Gibran, Kahlil

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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

Bataille, Georges

31.

Being pretty on the inside means you don't hit your brother and you eat all your peas -- that's what my grandma taught me.

Heller, Elizabeth

32.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Aristotle

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Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

Petrarch

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At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd.

Camus, Albert

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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game.

Paz, Octavio

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Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Pascal, Blaise

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Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

Dante Alighieri

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The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Bejar, Hada

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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.

Frye, Northrop

40.

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

Morley, Christopher

41.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Nibley, Hugh

42.

The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.

John Cage

43.

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.

Bancroft, George

44.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Sappho

45.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Robbins, Tim

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

Paglia, Camille

48.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

L'Enclos, Ninon De

49.

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.

Sand, George

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Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Rumi, Jalal-Uddin