- “Consider the fact that maybe…just maybe…beauty and worth aren’t found in a makeup bottle, or a salon-fresh hairstyle, or a fabulous outfit. Maybe our sparkle comes from somewhere deeper inside, somewhere so pure and authentic and REAL, it doesn’t need gloss or polish or glitter to shine.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
- “There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end they are all uniquely different.” ― Piper Payne
- “The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down those brave enough to show us the light. Likewise, people engage in darkness when it is light outside, and acknowledge the light only when it is dark. We abandon those fighting for us to cheer behind those fighting against us. And, we only remember good people and God when it is convenient for us, and take them for granted because their doors are always open – only to chase after closed doors and personalities void of substance and truth.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- “I just want her to look at me and know that she’s not just beautiful because of the strength she tries to project, but also because of the things she thinks make her look weak.” ― Melanie A. Smith, Everybody Lies
- “Do I love you because you’re beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?” ― Richard Rodgers, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
- “I couldn’t speak. It wasn’t because I was frightened. I was entranced, frozen in place by a crisp, terrifyingly icy beauty. Her gorgeousness seemed like a taboo, something forbidden to approach or even speak of, never mind touch.” ― Wataru Watari, やはり俺の青春ラブコメはまちがっている。4
- “I didn’t care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years–it took the experience of lived time–to realize that they really are the same thing.” ― Elif Batuman, The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them
- “Women’s beauty is a sweet coat to something more sinister- a bribe to men to plunge into the unknown” ― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Book of Wisdom
- “Happiness will bloom With fragrance and beautyIf you plant the seeds of loveWith a deep driving desire in the garden of hopeAnd nurture with tenderness,Compassion, and care;If you are always eager to share.” ― Debasish Mridha
- “It’s funny how the ugly duckling always has so many beautiful things to teach us.” ― Curtis Tyrone Jones
- “Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.” ― Amit Ray, Nonviolence: The Transforming Power
- “Love is beautiful.” – Malcolm Fade” ― Cassandra Clare, Lady Midnight
- “Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson
- “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” ― Erol Ozan
- “Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.” ― Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry
- “Sometimes when you’re surrounded by dirt…you’re a better witness for what’s beautiful.” ― Matt de la Pena, Last Stop on Market Street
- “Our task must be to free ourselves… by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty.” ― Albert Einstein
- “Her smile so beautiful . Like the loveliest sunset …” ― Imran Shaikh
- “By seeing the beauty of nature you touch the eternity within you.” ― Amit Ray, Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
- “The professors in the academy say, “Do not make the model more beautiful than she is,” and my soul whispers, “O if you could only paint the model as beautiful as she really is.” ― Kahlil Gibran, Beloved Prophet: The Love Letters of Kahlil Gibran and Mary Haskell, and Her Private Journal
- “I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
- “And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.Who knows if I’ll be dead the day after tomorrow?If I’m dead the day after tomorrow, the thunderstorm day after tomorrowWill be another thunderstorm than if I hadn’t died.Of course I know thunderstorms don’t fall because I see them,But if I weren’t in the world,The world would be different —There would be me the less —And the thunderstorm would fall on a different world and would be another thunderstorm.No matter what happens, what’s falling is what’ll be falling when it falls.(7/10/1930)” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
- “When we’re together,” he whispered, “we’ll only see each other, not the ugliness around us.” ― Ellen Marie Wiseman, The Plum Tree
- “Breath is our unbroken, coherent connection with the whole. It expresses itself as matter, energy, life and consciousnesses. Meditation is understanding that connection.” ― Amit Ray, Beautify your Breath – Beautify your Life
- “The most beautiful women I have known had one thing in common apart from beauty: humility. It’s a shame that those with less to boast about do it the most.” ― Donna Lynn Hope
- “Beauty of the body fades away in time, but beauty of the mind is timeless.” ― Abhijit Naskar
- “I’m one of my sensations.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
- “You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don’t you? Yet all you put in their place is a horrid little refusal to have nasty thoughts or do nasty things or be nasty in any way. Do you know that every great thing in the story of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?” ― John Fowles, The Collector
- “Freedom, makes me realize the beauty of life and nature, even death. A powerful desire that manifests itself through courage and that is something felt only if you are willing to live your life…And no, it is not easy to stay alive, that is not an easy task. But those who do, carry the symbol of freedom. You can tell a soul has seen hard times in their life, yet still has such a beautiful soul, even after they have passed away.Freedom… something artists know to do well.” ― Efrat Cybulkiewicz
- “Water’s water and that’s why it’s beautiful.” ― Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro