When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.
John LennonLife is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It's when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life's not worth having.
David Herbert LawrenceThe future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor RooseveltThe beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
AristotleShall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
William ShakespeareKisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
Drew BarrymoreEvery time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother TeresaStrange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable perhaps when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty was gone.
AristotleBehind every beautiful thing there's been some kind of pain.
Bob DylanThe poor are great! The poor are wonderful! The poor are very generous! They give us much more than what we give them.
Mother TeresaPersonal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction
AristotleBeauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
Rabindranath TagoreBeauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
Oscar WildeYou can find the footprints of God wherever there is beauty, virtue, humility, justice, truth, love and peace.
Sai BabaThe essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich NietzscheThe soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIt is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.
Oscar WildeBeauty is desired in order that it may be befouled, not for its own sake but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
Tom StoppardAmerican history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James Arthur BaldwinIf you're respectful by habit constantly honoring the worthy four things increase: long life, beauty, happiness, strength.
BuddhaThe true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar WildeEndurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
John RuskinBeauty is the lover's gift.
William CongreveBeauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
Saint AugustineTo look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life, than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane AustenChristmas waves a magic wand over this world and, behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
Norman Vincent PealeIt's not beauty, but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
EuripidesOf life's two chief prizes beauty and truth I found the first in a loving heart, and the second in a laborer's hand.
Kahlil GibranEducation is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
ChanakyaThere is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
Jane AustenBy plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindranath TagoreSuffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
AristotleThe beauty of independence departure actions that rely on themselves.
Walt WhitmanThe world's crazy when it comes to beauty.
Richard BachThe most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert EinsteinTo sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.
Jane AustenBeauty 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 MaughamBeauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and you are the mirror.
Kahlil GibranLoneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Henry RollinsShe laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth.
Benjamin FranklinEgoism will be destroyed if you constantly tell yourself 'It is He, not I', 'He is the force I am but the instrument'. Keep His name always on the tongue and contemplate His glory whenever you see or hear anything beautiful or grand.
Sai BabaBeauty and folly are old companions.
Benjamin FranklinI 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 ChaplinLove is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen KellerEverything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
ConfuciusBeauty is a fragile gift.
OvidBeauty is an outward gift which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIn all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
AristotleThere be none of Beauty's daughters, With a magic like thee.
Lord ByronIt is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed.
C. S. LewisI'm young; I'm handsome; I'm fast. I can't possibly be beat.
Muhammad AliShe’s beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is woman, and therefore to be won.
William ShakespeareI define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob DylanNothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship: or nobly which is done in pride.
John RuskinI have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.
Oscar WildeIf you have a sick or lonely person at home, be there. Maybe just to hold a hand, maybe just to give a smile, that is the greatest, the most beautiful work.
Mother TeresaEat to please thyself but dress to please others.
Benjamin FranklinThe world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
Herman HesseOnly on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue and abiding love.
George Bernard ShawThere are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them.
Jane AustenGood nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit, and gives a certain air to the countenance, which is more amiable than beauty.
Joseph AddisonGreat perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Victor HugoOur task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.
Albert EinsteinMost sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful would, contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.
Stephen HawkingNo one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't.
Marilyn MonroeOptimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose BierceIt sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Jane AustenThere is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores, the better.
Oscar WildeIt is better to be beautiful than to be good. But it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar WildePeople 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 from within.
Elisabeth Kubler-RossFacts which at first seem improbable will even on scant explanation drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.
Galileo GalileiBeauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheBeauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund BurkeBeauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard ShawEnlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology, but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight, and focused attention.
Deepak ChopraLove is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian unless the latter too be lovers in disguise.
George SantayanaThe ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
Joan RiversBeauty is everywhere a welcome guest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
John KeatsBeauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
E. M. ForsterThink of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne FrankFor every moment of triumph for every instance of beauty many souls must be trampled.
Hunter S. ThompsonSan Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
Rudyard KiplingI am a thing of beauty.
Frank SinatraOf its own beauty is the mind diseased / And fevers into false creation.
Lord ByronArt is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo PicassoThere is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.
John Kenneth GalbraithIt's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep or I'd be rotten to the core.
Phyllis DillerSecrecy is the element of all goodness, even virtue even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas CarlyleMankind have love, animals have affection. The harmonious and beautiful world is revealed.
BuddhaI don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne FrankThe most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.
Charles LambBeauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Edmund BurkeWhen I say that human beings are just gene machines one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
Richard DawkinsLove is the beauty of the soul.
Saint AugustineThe terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
Salvador DaliAlas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David ThoreauOf neighborhoods benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who, when he had the choice, does not settle in benevolence.
ConfuciusAnyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz KafkaPraise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works.
John KeatsThere is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect, and the love, and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
Mother TeresaThere is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
Joseph AddisonOld hands soil it seems whatever they caress but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre GideA lot of us grow up, and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.
Stephen KingI am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life struggle intensity.
Emile ZolaSex and beauty are inseparable like life and consciousness. And the intelligence, which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.
David Herbert LawrenceBeauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Ralph Waldo EmersonHumanism was not wrong in thinking that truth beauty liberty and equality are of infinite value but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
Simone WeilNor be what man should ever be / The friend of Beauty in distress?
Lord ByronIn youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
HomerAfter all it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without, and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence though deficient in personal charms than I have been by the most regular beauty.
Washington IrvingThe world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
ChanakyaLet us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Charles LambExuberance is beauty.
William BlakeThe pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
Albert EinsteinIf in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
MichelangeloHe was not handsome and his manners required intimacy to make them pleasing.
Jane AustenNonsense and beauty have close connections.
E. M. ForsterBeauty always promises but never gives anything.
Simone WeilIt was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written, there it looks wholly ridiculous.
Aldous HuxleyLook up laugh loud talk big keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye adorn your person maintain your health your beauty and your animal spirits.
William HazlittThe perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David ThoreauEvery beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
MichelangeloElizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.
Michael JacksonSweet are the uses of adversity, which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
William ShakespeareNo object is so beautiful that under certain conditions it will not look ugly.
Oscar WildeArt can never exist without Naked Beauty display'd.
William BlakeGrace in women has more effect than beauty.
William HazlittIt is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
VoltaireCherish your visions, cherish your ideals, cherish the music that stirs in your heart the beauty that forms in your mind the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts for out of them will grow delightful conditions all heavenly environment, of these if you but remain true to them your world will at last be built.
James AllenWhen I am working on a problem I never think about beauty but when I have finished if the solution is not beautiful I know it is wrong.
R. Buckminster FullerWe know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea because we have heard it and because our faith tells us so that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls or who dwells within them or how precious they are those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.
Saint Teresa of Avila