Beauty Quotes - Page 15

• The very first discovery of beauty strikes the mind with an inward joy, and spreads a cheerfulness and delight through all its faculties.

  Joseph Addison

  Discovery, Joy, Mind

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes ...”, p.273

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• Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.

  Bliss Carman

  Eye, Giving, Horizon

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• The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Soul, Stronger, Reason

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman (1850). “The optimist”, p.269

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

  Vita Sackville-West

  Beautiful, Women, Good Will

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• Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Laughing, Distinction

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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.

  Tom Stoppard

  Order, Joy, May

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• The perception of beauty is a moral test.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Perception, Tests

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.120, Princeton University Press

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• For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Kindness, Eye, Attractive Things

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• What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Love, Sympathy, Beautiful

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.

  Kate Upton

  Inspire, Body, Feels

  "Kate Upton Vogue Cover Labels Blonde ‘Hottest Supermodel On Earth’" By Rebecca Adams, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 10, 2013.

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• Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspirational, Order, Shapes

  "To My Daughters, With Love". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

  John Donne

  Love, Sarcastic, True Love

  'Elegies' 'The Anagram' (1593-6)

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• The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

  Havelock Ellis

  Beautiful, Design, Flaws

  Havelock Ellis (1915). “Impressions and comments”

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• The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

  Virginia Woolf

  Happiness, Laughter, Heart

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.573, Wordsworth Editions

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

  Kinky Friedman

  Philosophy, Drinking, Eye

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• Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you’ve got to get out and see God’s beauty of the world.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, God

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  For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Life, Kindness, Lovely Eyes

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• At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

  Toni Morrison

  Nature, World, Enough

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Tar Baby”, New Amer Library

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• The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Spiritual, Pain, Soul

  Mary Baker Eddy (2014). “Science And Health”, p.299, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Marianne Williamson (2012). “A Course in Weight Loss: 21 Spiritual Lessons for Surrendering Your Weight Forever”, p.230, Hay House, Inc

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• He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

  John Galsworthy

  People, Doubt, Immoral

  In Chancery (1920) pt. 1, ch. 13

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• Because you and I have the power to impute beauty on anything under the sun. Because you become the labels you give yourself. If you declare you're beautiful - not despite your imperfections, but because of them - then you are.

  Bo Sanchez

  Beautiful, Giving, Imperfection

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• By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself.

  Rumi

  Sight, Self, Idols

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• Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Greater

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• The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  Inspirational, Happiness, Justice

  "Pensées".

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