Quotes

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.
-Henry Miller

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.
-Margaret Cho

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
-R. Buckminster Fuller

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
-John Muir

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
-Kahlil Gibran

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
-Leo Tolstoy

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
-Cheryl Tiegs

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
-Jean Kerr

Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.
-Margaret Cho

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.
-Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
-George W. Russell

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
-Ninon de L'Enclos

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
-Havelock Ellis

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

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.
-Pearl Buck

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
-Sir Francis Bacon

I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
-Anonymous Author

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
-Ralph Ellison

The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
-Hazrat Inayat Khan

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
-John Constable

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.
-Petrarch

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
-Teena Booth

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
-Rabindrath Tagore

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
-Martin Buxbaum