Beauty - Quotes & Sayings

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

Beauty without expression is boring.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yourself.

Lindsay Wagner

I love the fact that we are surrounded by this spectacular natural beauty that routinely strikes us dead. Hikers walk off into the woods and are never seen again. And still we tug on our fleece and skip off into the wilderness, not a care in the world.

Chelsea Cain

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Franz Kafka

We needed something to express our joy, our beauty, our power. And the rainbow did that.

Gilbert Baker

Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

Laetitia Casta

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.

John Erskine

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

Samuel Daniel

Through my optimism I naturally prefer and capture the beauty in life.

Leni Riefenstahl

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Victor Hugo

The world is a crazy, beautiful, ugly complicated place, and it keeps moving on from crisis to strangeness to beauty to weirdness to tragedy. The caravan keeps moving on, and the job of the longform writer or filmmaker or radio broadcaster is to stop - is to pause - and when the caravan goes away, that's when this stuff comes.

David Remnick

It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

David Attenborough

Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.

Edward Steichen

Tramping is too easy with all this money. My days were more exciting when I was penniless and had to forage around for my next meal... I've decided that I'm going to live this life for some time to come. The freedom and simple beauty of it is just too good to pass up.

Christopher McCandless

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Chanakya

I don't see the desert as barren at all; I see it as full and ripe. It doesn't need to be flattered with rain. It certainly needs rain, but it does with what it has, and creates amazing beauty.

Joy Harjo

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Edgar Allan Poe

You can be a pretty face, but if you're not a nice person, it just doesn't work. I'm not traditionally a beauty, but apparently people think I'm all right. If you're a nice person, it definitely helps.

Kate Moss

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

David Hume

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

Conrad Hall

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

George William Russell

Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it. That's human nature to believe that beauty is everything.

Marina and the Diamonds

When it comes to beauty, I feel that hanging with people you love, laughing, and doing silly things gets your spirits up. We are always prettier when we are happier.

Sara Sampaio

We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize.

John Henrik Clarke

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

Marisol Nichols

I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

Charlie Chaplin

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

Buddha

Beauty is a gift, just like good health or intelligence. The only thing is not to be proud of being beautiful. Because you didn't do anything - it was given to you.

Monica Bellucci

The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

Conan O'Brien

Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth.

Marston Morse

I have moments where I miss my old self. But I think anyone can get caught up in what we used to have. But at the same time, we can choose to focus on the beauty of now.

Steve Gleason

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Arthur Helps

When I pray, I always thank Mother Nature for all the beauty in the world. It's about having an attitude of gratitude.

Miranda Kerr

I think Sydney has so much natural beauty; it's just a beautiful city.

Flume

Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour.

Thomas Nashe

In beauty, there's this idea of this perfect picture, and I think, 'How about being present in the now, and a little messy?'

Emily Weiss

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

Elliott Erwitt

Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.

Louis Kahn

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Charles Lamb

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

Marie Curie

The beauty of Maine is such that you can't really see it clearly while you live there. But now that I've moved away, with each return it all becomes almost hallucinatory: the dark blue water, the rocky coast with occasional flashes of white sand, the jasper stone beaches along the coast, the pine and fir forests somehow vivid in their stillness.

Alexander Chee

Beauty is about what's inside us, loving who we are and nurturing that. Outward beauty can really blossom from there.

Connie Britton

Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

Langston Hughes

I like a girl with natural beauty.

Chandler Parsons

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Maya Angelou

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

Oscar Wilde