Beauty Quotes - Page 13

• 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

  Beautiful, Reality, Thinking

  "Happy Birthday, John Cage! Celebrate What Would Be The Composer’s 101st With His Little-Seen Visual Art" by Kate Abbey-Lambertz, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 5, 2013.

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• Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

  Robert Motherwell

  Uplifting, Song, Dark

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• No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Beautiful, Witty

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Essays and Lectures: Top Essays”, p.91, 谷月社

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• I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty.

  John F. Kennedy

  Happiness, America, Grace

  Speech at Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, on October 26, 1963. "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy", p. 817, 1963.

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• God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

  Jean-Claude Van Damme

  God, Directors, Redemption

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• But the healing place is within you. Healing is a gift you were granted at birth, just as you were granted others. Use your gifts, child. Use the beauty, the courage, the hope and the love that is in you. Call upon your strength. Use compassion and faith. Even during sad times joy is within you. Bring it forth. Wisdom is there to guide you. Use any one of your gifts and you will rouse the power of your healing place. Use all of them and you will sustain it.

  Charlene Costanzo

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten. The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten.

  Zhuangzi

  Beautiful, Rotten, Ugly

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• For such,
  Being made beautiful overmuch,
  Consider beauty a sufficient end,
  Lose natural kindness and maybe
  The heart-revealing intimacy
  That chooses right, and never find a friend.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Kindness, Heart

  William Butler Yeats, “A Prayer For My Daughter”

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• I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Beautiful, Fire, Unusual Things

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• 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.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Fashion, Passion, Elements

  "Daily Bread for Your Mind and Soul: A Handbook of Transcultural Proverb and Sayings". Book by Fayek S. Hourani, p. 169, 2012.

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• Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.

  Robert Breault

  Beautiful, Healing, Teens

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• Beauty always has something remote.

  Elias Canetti

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

  Jim Henson

  Stupid, Humor, Eye

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• I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.

  Salma Hayek

  Love Yourself, Your Beautiful, You Are Beautiful

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• By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Flower, Carpe Diem, Petals

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.414, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

  John Keats

  Love, Life, Dream

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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

  Christopher Marlowe

  Love, Romantic, Art

  Christopher Marlowe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Christopher Marlowe (Illustrated)”, p.1562, Delphi Classics

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• Good nature will always supply the absence of beauty; but beauty cannot supply the absence of good nature.

  Joseph Addison

  Kindness, Absence, Good Nature

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1826). “The Spectator: With Notes, and a General Index”, p.402

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• Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Desirable

  "Topics".

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• Beauty has a lot to do with character.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Inspirational, Character, Inner Beauty

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• Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

  Edmund Burke

  Distress

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.176

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• 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.

  E. M. Forster

  Funny, Humor, Doe

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.134, RosettaBooks

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• The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.

  Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

  Honesty, World, Moral

  "Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times". Book by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, the edition by Philip Ayres, 1999.

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• Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Beautiful, Lovely, Clay

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.873, Delphi Classics

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• Exuberance is beauty.

  William Blake

  Happiness, Gratitude, Cheer

  William Blake (2017). “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”, p.11, Litres

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