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 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 ShakespeareBeauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.
Frank ZappaThe appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.
Kahlil GibranKisses, 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 NietzscheA beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it.
MichelangeloThe 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 WildeBlues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion.
Christina AguileraBeauty 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 StoppardAnything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.
Marcus AureliusAmerican history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
James Arthur BaldwinBeauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once.
AristotleAll great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
John RuskinThe true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Oscar WildeEndurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.
John RuskinBeauty 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 GibranThere 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 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'm young; I'm handsome; I'm fast. I can't possibly be beat.
Muhammad AliI 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 WildeMost 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 HawkingBeauty is unbearable drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.
Albert CamusOptimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
Ambrose BierceThere 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 WildeEnlightened 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 ChopraSex 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 LawrenceHumanism 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 WeilSleep sleep beauty bright Dreaming in the joys of night, Sleep sleep, in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep.
William BlakeCherish 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 AllenThe head Sublime the heart Pathos the genitals Beauty the hands & feet Proportion.
William BlakeWe 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 AvilaIt is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts as for that subtle something that quality of air that emanation from old trees that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Robert Louis Stevenson