Quotes on Beauty

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. – Albert Einstein

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. – Virginia Woolf

The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings. – Chazal

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician. – Lucille S. Harper

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness. – D. H. Lawrence

Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone. – Roy R. Gilson

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

People are like stained glass windows: they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light within. – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. – Khalil Gibran

[The lover says:] How beautiful you are, now that you love me. – Marlene Dietrich

There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may -- light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. – John Constable

Beauty is not real. Beauty only exists in perception. – Unknown

Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5. – Roseanne

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it. – Ivan Panin

... if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever. – Jimmy Carter

It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart. – Anonymous

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Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. – Percy Bysshe Shelley

Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature. – Louis Orr

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. – Edgar Allen Poe

A person is only beautiful, when their own beauty, is reflecting on to others. – Tara Grady

Those who look for beauty, find it. – Unknown

The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony. – Mary Baker Eddy

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. – John Burroughs

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul. – George Sand

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it. – Voltaire

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness. – John Keats

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. – Jawaharlal Nehru

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God. – Jean Anouilh

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. – Marcus Aurelius

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. – W. Somerset Maugham

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