Looking for beauty quotes about the amazing life that is all around us, all day long, that we tend to overlook? For many, beauty has a very narrow definition. They look at the physical beauty of others, or that which is overtly beautiful to most, as a whole. This is only one, very narrow, definition of beauty though, and one that we should all consider expanding on if we have not already done so. Learning to appreciate this beauty can improve the quality of our lives, as we are able to look deeper and more meaningfully at people and things in our lives. Here are some inspirational thoughts and quotes about beauty, as well as its many definitions that exist.
1. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius
2. Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
3. I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape. - Scarlett Johansson
4. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
5. The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. - Audrey Hepburn
6. Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heartbreak.
7. Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
8. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. - Khalil Gibran
9. Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand. - Khalil Gibran
10. As we grow old, the beauty steals inward. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
11. Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.
12. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful. - Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
13. It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
14. Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone. - Dorothy Parker
15. Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited. - William Goldman, The Princess Bride
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Read these beauty quotes and let them encourage you. There is beauty all around us, we just have to open our eyes and appreciate it. Take the time to see the beauty in nature, in people, in our surroundings.
16. There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion. - Edgar Allan Poe
17. Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. – Franz Kafka
18. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness.
19. Where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which, no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral. - John Galsworthy, The Forsyte Saga
20. Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, and profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, and chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.
21. Judge nothing by the appearance. The more beautiful the serpent, the more fatal its sting.
22. 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. – Miss Piggy, The Muppets
23. Beauty is certainly a soft, smooth, slippery thing, and therefore of nature which easily slips in and permeates our souls. - Plato, Lysis
24. Beauty is but a lease from nature. - Edward Counsel, Maxims
25. Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror. - Pamela Anderson
26. Beauty is bought by the judgment of the eye. – William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost, Act 2, Scene 1
27. Though we travel the world over to find beauty, we must carry it with us or we find it not. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see. - George W. Russell
29. Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. - Kahlil Gibran
30. We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting. – Kahlil Gibran
Beauty Quotes for Beautiful Women
Beauty is a precarious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well. Often it seems to me to be an evil flower of nothingness, or else the cry of the world as it dies, or a desperate, sumptuous prayer. Below are some inspirational beauty quotes for all the pretty women.
31. That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. - Ninon de L'Enclos
32. Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. – Rabindranath Tagore
33. Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. - Martin Buxbaum
34. In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. - Christopher Morley
35. Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
36. I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. - Karl Lagerfeld
37. Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. Beauty and folly are generally companions. - Baltasar Gracian
39. Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty. - George Eliot
40. Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
41. Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
42. Beauty is the shadow of God on the universe. - Gabriela Mistral, Desolacíon
43. You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. - Marie Stopes
44. Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude. - Grey Livingston
45. I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?
46. Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
