top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is still escaping out of all analysis. It is not yet possessed, it cannot be handled. -It instantly deserts possession, and flies to an object in the horizon. If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Beauty quotes
"Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate."
Author Name
Personal Development
"True fashion should reflect deeper feelings of inner passion for life."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If the path is beautiful, all you have to do when walking in that path is to be beautiful so as to not ruin the beauty of the path!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"The beauty of a woman is not in her facial makeup but in the kindness of her soul."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You always were beautiful, and you always will be beautiful."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."
Author Name
Personal Development
"This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"The beauty of souls is like blossom flowers."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Beauty often depends on not how you look but on who you are."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The soul's rainbow has more colors than the sky's stars."
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff."
Nature
"A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women."
Society
"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom."
Wisdom
"The most wonderful inspirations die with their subject, if he has no hand to paint them to the senses."
Art
"The effects of opposition are wonderful. There are men who rise refreshed on hearing of a threat men to whom a crises which intimidates and paralyzes the majority comes as graceful and beloved as a bride!"
Resilience
"No man can have society upon his own terms. If he seeks it he must serve it too."
Society
"A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word."
Psychology
"Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful. This is the reason why beauty is still escaping out of all analysis. It is not yet possessed, it cannot be handled. -It instantly deserts possession, and flies to an object in the horizon. If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it, the beauty forsakes all the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time."
Beauty
"Another point of economy is to look for seed of the same kind as you sow, and not to hope to buy one kind with an other kind. Friendship buys friendship; justice, justice; military merit, military success...Yet there is commonly a confusion of expectations on these points. Hotspur lives for the moment, praises himself for it, and despises Furlong, that he does not. Hotspur of course is poor, and Furlong is a good provider. The odd circumstance is that Hotspur thinks it a superiority in himself, this improvidence, which ought to be rewarded with Furlong's lands."
Economy
"I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from."
Self
bottom of page