Beauty Quotes
Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.Mere
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.Rachel Carson
When the waves are round me breaking, As I pace the deck alone, And my eye in vain is seekingSome green leaf to rest uponWhat would not I give to wanderWhere my old companions dwellAbsence makes the heart grow fonder, Isle of Beauty, fare thee well.John Milton
If eyes were made for seeing, Then Beauty is its own excuse for being.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.Louisa May Alcott
Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.Jelaluddin Rumi
When you see a person who has been given more than you in money and beauty, look to those, who have been given less.Prophet Mohammed
It is only by striving for beauty and love In all our relationships, That we can hope to become Guardians of our individual and collective futures.Roland Stahle
Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.John Donne
Remember, that if thou marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance will neither last nor please thee one year and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all for the desire dieth when it is attained, and the affection perisheth when it is satisfied.Sir Walter Raleigh
Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.John Stuart Mill
May your life be like a wildflower, growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day.Native American Prove
Never regard study as a duty but as an enviable opportunity to learn to know the liberating influence of beauty in the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later works belong.Albert Einstein
Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.Miguel de Unamuno
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires.William Hazlitt
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.Sylvia Ashton - Warne
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.Camille Paglia
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while.Hellen Kelle
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is not defined by the masses but by the opinion of the individual.Rune Leknes
Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.George Santayana
Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such success that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art.Ralph Waldo Emerson
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.John Keats
Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty.Rose Elizabeth Bird
Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - A beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.Bertrand Russell
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.Michelangelo Buonarroti
The universe seems wondrous to me, with or without God. It has powerful lines and uncompromising ways. Patience and time sit like sages on the planets, strong and impersonal. There is a stark beauty to all of this.Real Live Preacher, reallivepreacher. com weblog, September 4, 2003
Beauty is a form of genius - - Is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.Oscar Wilde
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.John Keats
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.Confucius
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.Eleanor Roosevelt
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.D. H. Lawrence
Modesty is the citadel of beauty.Demades
The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.Havelock Ellis, Impressions and Comments (1914)
Beauty, more than bitterness Makes the heart break.Sara Teasdale
