The cliche is that beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But there are so many other great quotes about beauty from famous thinkers ancient and modern. Here we present over 130 of the best beauty quotes we could find. We hope you enjoy pondering them!
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.
The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence.
Integrity reveals beauty.
Beauty without virtue is a curse.
Beauty is a possession not our own.
Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists.
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.
It is the beautiful bird that gets caged.
Beauty begins the moment you choose to see it.
Simplicity reveals the pure beauty of life.
Love is the magic, mystery, and the beauty of life.
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
Beauty, like truth and justice, lives within us.
Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.
There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.
What delights us in visible beauty is the invisible.
Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.
Beauty arises out of human inspiration.
The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart.
Happiness is the true beauty weapon.
Beauty can pierce one like pain.
Beauty is the lover's gift.
Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Beauty is health. Health is beauty.
Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
Beauty is more than skin deep.
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
Because beauty isn't enough, there must be something more.
Beauty comes from the inside.
The soul preserves beauty.
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Beauty has no relation to price, rarity, or age.
True beauty must come, must be grown, from within.
True beauty lasts through the toughest of storms.
Real beauty is never vain.
Beauty is not caused. It is.
In life beauty perishes, but not in art.
Beauty lives with kindness.
Beauty within itself should not be wasted.
Beauty is the pilot of the young soul.
True beauty lies in purity of the heart.
The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.
Beauty surrounds us.
Longer Version:
Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
Beauty can inspire miracles.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide.
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
Longer Version:
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over 4 billion years of biological evolution. Incidentally, all the organisms on the Earth are made essentially of that stuff. An eyedropper full of that liquid could be used to make a caterpillar or a petunia if only we knew how to put the components together.
Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
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.
There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
Beauty rests on necessities. The line of beauty is the result of perfect economy.
Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Longer Version:
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.
A beautiful smile is to the female countenance what the sunbeam is to the landscape; it embellishes an inferior face and redeems an ugly one.
A smile is a powerful weapon; you can even break ice with it.
Just one smile immensely increases the beauty of the universe.
The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.
A beautiful thing is never perfect.
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.
We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it.
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
Instinct is a marvelous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.
You are loved. You are wonderfully made. You are beautiful. You have purpose. You are a masterpiece.
The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
The beautiful is always bizarre.
There is beauty in simplicity.
Butterflies come to pretty flowers.
Beauty is a delightful prejudice.
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
Longer Version:
There is no exquisite beauty," says Bacon, Lord Verulam, speaking truly of all the forms and genera of beauty, "without some strangeness in the proportion."
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.
Let life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
Longer Version:
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
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.
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
