Beauty Quotes
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Today, like every other day, we wake up empty and frightened. Don't open the door to the study and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer. Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Rumi -
Beauty lives with kindness.
William Shakespeare
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The great purpose of school can be realized better in dark, airless, ugly places. It is to master the physical self, to transcend the beauty of nature. School should develop the power to withdraw from the external world.
William Torrey Harris -
And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew.
William Butler Yeats -
Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.
William Butler Yeats -
We turn outward, attracted by the beauty we see in created things without realizing that they are only a reflection of the real beauty. And the real beauty is within us.
Ernesto Cardenal -
We need to walk, just as birds need to fly. We need to be around other people. We need beauty. We need contact with nature. And most of all, we need not to be excluded. We need to feel some sort of equality.
Enrique Penalosa -
It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and physical perfection are fundamentally connected, and will, when the present causes of incongruity have worked themselves out, be ever found united.
Herbert Spencer
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Beauty is just a light switch away...'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is.
Emily Dickinson -
Fame is the beauty parlor of the dead.
Benjamin De Casseres -
There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.
Celine Dion -
My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.
William Wordsworth -
Love has nothing to do with another person. Love is Truth. Love is Beauty. Love is Self. To know yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to love.
Gangaji -
Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.
Edward Conlon
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All beauty that surrounds us must one day perish.
Jostein Gaarder -
She who is born with beauty is born with a sorrow for many a man.
Confucius -
Beauty always takes place in the particular.
Elaine Scarry -
Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye.
William Shakespeare -
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil -
Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.
Gwyneth Paltrow
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I thought of beauty as of a constant effort to eliminate corporeality. I wanted him to love my body forgetful of what one knows of bodies. Beauty, I thought anxiously, is this forgetfulness.
Elena Ferrante -
Remember that the sudden decision to stop fighting, and just go with the flow, can be incredibly releasing. Resistance is just so draining. There is a beauty to gracious acceptance, an energy that leads to peace.
Nikki Gemmell -
And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!
Audrey Hepburn -
Inner beauty radiates from within, and there's nothing more beautiful than when a woman feels beautiful on the inside.
Erin Heatherton