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Beauty Quotes


"How beautiful it is to hug someone with kindness when he is trying to hurt you!"


"A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body."


"I'm always suspicious of really beautiful women telling us we shouldn't be worried about beauty."


"If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white swan adding beauty to a misty lake!"


"Every woman has a distinctive sense of beauty which is uniquely charming and euphoric."


"Do what is beautiful to make yourself beautiful."


"The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it."


"She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes, eyes that were very pretty and very good."


"Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction."


"The beauty of women was the first expression of my photography."


"We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves'-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use."


"The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating (this kind easily awakens disgust), but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams; finally, after it has for a long time lain modestly in our heart, it takes complete possession of us, filling our eyes with tears, our hearts with longing. What do we long for when we see beauty? To be beautiful. We think much happiness must be connected with it. But that is an error."


"The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level."


"We are all looking for beauty all around us, only those whose heart is loving and appreciative will find it."


"Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,and we are so awed because it serenely disdainsto annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying."


"The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever."


"Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world."


"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."


"Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses."


"Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down."


"World will be a beautiful place only with beautiful minds!"


"... the cattleyas especially (these being, with chrysanthemums, her favourite flowers), because they had the supreme merit of not looking in the least like other flowers, but of being made, apparently, out of scraps of silk or satin."
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