Meaningful Quotes About Beauty
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!
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.
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.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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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.
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.
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.
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.
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.
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Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.
The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.
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.
Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion.
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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."
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
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.
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
