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 LawrenceEverybody likes a compliment.
Abraham LincolnThe 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.
AristotleLet everything happen to you, Beauty and terror, Just keep going, No feeling is final.
Rainer Maria RilkeLove gives beauty to everything it touches.
Rabindranath TagoreShall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
William ShakespeareBeauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.
Frank ZappaIt is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.
Maya AngelouThe 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 BarrymoreBeauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.
Rabindranath TagoreEvery 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 TeresaDo you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.
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 TagoreWhen I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
Mahatma GandhiBeauty 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 AguileraIt is dangerous for mortal beauty or terrestrial virtue to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot and all that we would not see.
Samuel JohnsonAnything 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 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.
EuripidesChildren, dear and loving children, can alone console a woman for the loss of her beauty.
Honore de BalzacEducation 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 most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert EinsteinBeauty 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 RollinsSafeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Kahlil GibranShe 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 ChaplinEverything 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 EmersonThere 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 ShakespeareLet life be beautiful like summer flowers and death like autumn leaves.
Rabindranath TagoreI 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 TeresaHumanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.
Jean PaulIf indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.
Kahlil GibranBeauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil GibranThe 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 HesseOpinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
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 EinsteinMy mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George WashingtonMost 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 HawkingWe delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Maya AngelouThe key to education is the experience of beauty.
Friedrich SchillerNo 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 GoetheBeauty 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 CarlyleThe beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes because that is the doorway to her heart the place where love resides.
Audrey HepburnI don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne FrankThe greatest beauty aid for women is virtue.
Sai BabaThe 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 AugustinePoetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan PoeThe 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 ThoreauThe best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis BaconOf 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 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 GideWisdom is the abstract of the past but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell HolmesA 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.
ChanakyaA wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.
ChanakyaLet us live for the beauty of our own reality.
Charles LambExuberance is beauty.
William BlakeIf 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. ForsterWhatever you may look like marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades so will his eyesight.
Phyllis DillerAt fifteen beauty and talent do not exist, there can only be promise of the coming woman.
Honore de BalzacBut as to women who can penetrate the real sufferings of their she condition? Man's very sympathy with their estate has much of selfishness and more suspicion. Their love their virtue beauty education but form good housekeepers to breed a nation.
Lord ByronBeauty 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.
MichelangeloSweet 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 HazlittBeauty n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
Ambrose BierceWhenever at a party I have been in the mood to study fools I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
Jean PaulWithout modesty woman is devoid of beauty and culture. Humility, purity of thought and manners, meekness, surrender to high ideals, sensitivity, sweetness of temper - the peculiar blend of all these qualities is modesty. It is the most invaluable of all jewels for women.
Sai BabaWhat would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
Victor HugoAs we grow old the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAbstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs & flaming hair, But Desire Gratified Plants fruits of life & beauty there.
William BlakeWith a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration or rather obliterates all consideration.
John KeatsMere enthusiasm is the all in all. . . . Passion and expression are beauty itself.
William BlakeThat's one of the nice things. I mean part of the beauty of me is that I'm very rich. So if I need $600 million I can put $600 million myself. That's a huge advantage. I must tell you that's a huge advantage over the other candidates.
Donald TrumpIt is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
W. Somerset MaughamA thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases, it will never pass into nothingness.
John KeatsSince love grows within you so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Saint AugustineThe beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
Audrey HepburnSo foul and fair a day I have not seen.
William ShakespeareIt is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo TolstoySleep sleep beauty bright Dreaming in the joys of night, Sleep sleep, in thy sleep Little sorrows sit and weep.
William BlakeWhatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself and is complete in itself, praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.
Marcus AureliusThat which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
Denis WaitleyLove of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBeauty is worse than wine it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.
Aldous HuxleyWe find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo EmersonPeople think that if you look fairly reasonable you can't possibly act and as I only care about acting I think beauty can be a great handicap.
Vivien LeighTo love beauty is to see light.
Victor HugoOh! snatched away in beauty's bloom / On thee shall press no ponderous tomb.
Lord ByronBeauty is not caused. It is.
Emily DickinsonThe beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.
Audrey HepburnThe human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
David Herbert LawrenceThere is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis BaconDear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble, in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
Victor HugoBeauty is all very well at first sight, but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard ShawBeauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.
George Jean NathanBeauty is a short-lived tyranny.
SocratesAs a white candle In a holy place So is the beauty Of an aged face
Joseph CampbellWhat a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty is everything!
H. P. LovecraftWhat the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
John KeatsAs long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization neither art nor civilization is secure
John DeweyBeauty is in the heart of the beholder.
H. G. WellsBeauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.
John RuskinYouth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz KafkaDress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane AustenWho would not give up wit for power and beauty?
Mason CooleyTeach us that wealth is not elegance that profusion is not magnificence that splendor is not beauty.
Benjamin DisraeliShould you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Elisabeth Kubler-RossBeauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis BaconWisdom, I know, is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Thomas JeffersonIt is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.
VoltaireBeauty of whatever kind in its supreme development invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allan PoeThe beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness.
Virginia WoolfThere is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless and the other half discreditable.
Christian Nestell BoveeCherish 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 AllenBeauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
SocratesThere is in true beauty as in courage something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
William CongreveThe beauty of the world which is so soon to perish has two edges one of laughter one of anguish cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia WoolfWhen 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 FullerBeauty without expression is boring.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThrough loyalty to the past our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it, that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
Andre GideI think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.
John WoodenBeauty attracts us men, but if like an armed magnet it is pointed beside with gold and silver it attracts with tenfold power.
Jean PaulGrace is in garments in movements in manners, beauty in the nude and in forms. This is true of bodies, but when we speak of feelings beauty is in their spirituality and grace in their moderation.
Joseph JoubertIn the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteIn LA where I live it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
Alanis MorissetteFlowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBeauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women.
Alanis MorissetteGrace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.
Friedrich SchillerThe ideal and the beautiful are identical, the ideal corresponds to the idea and beauty to form, hence idea and substance are cognate.
Victor HugoI'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family and my children brought me back some of that spirit.
Angelina JolieTo give pain is the tyranny, to make happy the true empire of beauty.
Samuel ButlerThe human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants, and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
William WordsworthBoth the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and the wonder surrounding him.
Ansel AdamsThe 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 AvilaHe possessed beauty without vanity strength without insolence, courage without ferocity, and all the virtues of man without his vices
Lord ByronThe architect should strive continually to simplify, the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.
Frank Lloyd Wright