Beauty Quotes - Page 39

• When you see beauty anywhere, it's a reflection of yourself.

  Shakti Gawain

  Reflection, Reflection Of Yourself

  Shakti Gawain, Laurel King (1998). “Living in the Light: A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation”, p.73, New World Library

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• The noble grotesque involves the true appreciation of beauty.

  John Ruskin

  Appreciation, Noble, Grotesque

  John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.160

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• perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

  Responsibility, Modern, Social

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1915). “The Bent Twig”

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• Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Fats

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• He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good will soon be fair also.

  Sappho

  Looks, Goodness, Look Up

  Sappho (1925). “The Poems of Sappho: With Historical & Critical Notes, Translations, and a Bibliography”

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• The capacity to be overwhelmed by the beautiful is astonishingly sturdy and survives amidst the harshest distractions.

  Susan Sontag

  Beautiful, Overwhelmed, Distraction

  Susan Sontag (2007). “At the Same Time: Essays and Speeches”, p.14, Macmillan

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• For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beautiful, Flower, Autumn

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• Is your life beautiful? Do you live in surroundings that you have made beautiful through your own unique, creative ideas? To expect and lovingly require beauty to be apparent in all areas of your life is to be deeply loving to yourself, your soul, your world, and shows reverence to God and all of life. There is always something beautiful to be found, right where you are, if you will look for it. Concentrate your thoughts on the good, the beautiful, and the true things in life.

  John Templeton

  Beautiful, Unique, Things In Life

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• Nature is neither pleasant nor painful. It is all intelligence and beauty. Pain and pleasure are in the mind.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Nature, Pain, Intelligence

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• the most deeply moving element in the contemplation of beauty is the element of loss. We desire to hold; but the sunset melts into the night, and the secret of the painting on the wall can never be the secret of the buyer.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

  Wall, Moving, Sunset

  Pamela Hansford Johnson (1952). “Catherine Carter: A Novel”, London Macmillan 1952.

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• There is a terrible weight in all kinds of beauty

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Weight, Kind, Terrible

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• There is much to be said against the climate on the coast of British Columbia and Alaska; yet, I believe that the scenery of one good day will compensate the tourists who will go there in increasing numbers.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Believe, Good Day, Alaska

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• I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.

  Julia McNair Wright

  Ideas, Snow, Faces

  Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

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• Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss or nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.

  Brad Warner

  Practice, Missing, Encounters

  Brad Warner (2010). “Sex, Sin, and Zen: Buddhist Exploration of Sex from Celibacy to Polyamory and Everything in Between”, p.65, New World Library

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• Beauty is only bearable when you're happy.

  Helen Kieran Reilly

  Bearable

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• I fell in love with beauty a long, long time ago, but what I wanted was to create beauty - not to be blinded by it.

  Helena Rubinstein

  Long, Wanted, Blinded

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• The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.

  Alice Hegan Rice

  Cost, Facts, Curse

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• It may be that vice, depravity, and crime are nearly always, or even perhaps always, in their essence, attempts to eat beauty, to eat what we should only look at.

  Simone Weil

  Essence, Vices, Looks

  Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.61, Routledge

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• There is a sound reason why one and a half billion dollars are spent for cosmetics in your country every year, and only half that sum for education: There are no naturally pretty girls in the United States.

  Elizabeth Hawes

  Girl, Country, Years

  Elizabeth Hawes (1948). “Anything But Love: A Complete Digest of the Rules of Feminine Behavior from Birth to Death ...”

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• The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things.

  Thich Thien-An

  Simplicity, Tranquility, Harmony

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• What is beautiful is right: what is unbeautiful is wrong.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Beautiful

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• Every person is able to add beauty, whether by growing flowers, or singing, or cooking luscious meals, or raising sweet pets. Every part of life can be art.

  Cynthia Rylant

  Sweet, Art, Flower

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• Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

  Eliphas Levi

  Beautiful, Reflection, Skulls

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• These are the beautiful people, who, befitting their rank as gods and goddesses of a powerful modern mythology, lead beautiful lives in beautiful houses, attired in beautiful clothes and, ostensibly, thinking only beautiful thoughts.

  Helen Lawrenson

  Beautiful, Powerful, Thinking

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• Looking young and attractive with makeup is the next best thing to actually being young and attractive. After all, a woman only has a few years where she really is youthful, but she can wear foundation makeup til the day she dies (and even after!).

  Linda Sunshine

  Makeup, Years, Foundation

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