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Beauty Quotes


"Fortuitous, unexpected beauty is the best beauty because it is unique, and what is unique is remembered."


"Chaos is nothing more than beauty about to dance."


"That icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror..."


"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!"


"That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty."



"What is human beauty based on? It is based on how much egoism one has. Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is without egoism so his beauty is beyond words!"


"She really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did."


"Beauty is what we have seen and what we are going to see in the future. It is the totality of physical, emotional and biological structures we have created within generations intentionally or unintentionally for our enjoyment and satisfaction. We consider ourselves beautiful, because we have seen it and imagine for thousands of years. If we had five feet, nine eyes and twenty fingers we still were beautiful."


"Beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins."


"We complain that the world is an ugly place to live and grow, we never learn to see the beauty of the world."


"If you look at old pictures, Irene Casey is so pretty. Not just young, but pretty the way you look when your face goes smooth, the skin around your eyes and lips relaxed, the pretty you only look when you love the person taking the picture."


"We are always looking for beauty and forget that it is residing inside of our own hearts."


"To find beauty, rise above conformity and find opportunities."


"When Eleanor was a little girl, she'd thought her mom looked like a queen, like the star of some fairy tale.Not a princess - princesses are just pretty. Eleanor's mother was beautiful. She was tall and stately, with broad shoulders and an elegant waist. All of her bones seemed more purposeful than other people's. Like they weren't just there to hold her up, they were there to make a point."



"Do you think I'm pretty?He regarded me with utter seriousness, like he always did. "I think you're beautiful."Beautiful?"You are so beautiful, it hurts me sometimes."


"Not everyone can see that everything has some beauty."


"Each moment has an unrealized dimension of beauty that only your perspective can liberate."


"There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle."


"My dears, laugh at me if you like; it is not conventionally beautiful, but there is something in its quaint old face which pleases me. If it could play the piano, I am sure it would really play."


"Not your appearance, but your humility and power of love define your beauty."


"Truth is like beauty, it lies in the mind of the beholder."


"People are amazingly beautiful not because of how they look, they are beautiful because of who they are."


"However beautiful a morning may be, we still must not wish it to continue endlessly, because this shall mean missing forever all the beauties of the night!"


"True beauty is not in the body, but in the heart of the beholder."


"Eyes which feast on the beauty of the world will always look beautiful to others. That which receives beauty exudes it as well."


"I took my pill at eleven. An hour and half later I was sitting in my study, looking intently at a small glass vase. The vase contained only three flowers -- a full-blown Belle of Portugal rose, shell pink with a hint at every petal's base of a hotter, flamier hue; a large magenta and cream-coloured carnation; and, pale purple at the end of its broken stalk, the bold heraldic blossom of an iris. Fortuitous and provisional, the little nosegay broke all the rules of traditional good taste. At breakfast that morning I had been struck by the lively dissonance of its colours. But that was no longer the point. I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement. I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation -- the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence."
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