It 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.
~By Robert Louis Stevenson ~
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
~By Leo Tolstoy ~
The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.
~By Fritz Todt ~
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
~By Pierre Auguste Renoir ~
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
~By Ashley Smith ~
At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.
~By Frederick Sanger ~
Beauty is not caused. It is.
~By Emily Dickinson ~
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
You, too, women, cast away all the cowards from your embraces; they will give you only cowards for children, and you who are the daughters of the land of beauty must bear children who are noble and brave.
~By Giuseppe Garibaldi ~
Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.
~By Ouida ~
It's hard to say what drives a three year-old, but I think I had a sense that nature was my solace, and nature was a place in which there was beauty, in which there was order.
~By Story Musgrave ~
I'm still figuring out why people would want to look at me. Maybe it's generic beauty, but it's weird to be valued for something I was born with.
~By Josie Maran ~
The ideal beauty is a fugitive which is never found.
~By Joan Rivers ~
As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
~By Carl Van Vechten ~
After 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.
~By Washington Irving ~
Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.
~By Albrecht Durer ~
I'd like to make really important movies, like American Beauty. I was really proud to be a part of that movie.
~By Allison Janney ~
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
~By Robert Motherwell ~
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
~By Shinichi Suzuki ~
How goodness heightens beauty!
~By Milan Kundera ~
The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space.
~By Ruth St. Denis ~
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
~By Camille Paglia ~
I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
~By Walter Pater ~
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
When the soul looks out of its body, it should see only beauty in its path. These are the sights we must hold in mind, in order to move to a higher place.
~By Yusef Lateef ~
We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming.
~By Howard Carter ~
All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most, I shot.
~By Ernst Haas ~
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Beauty without expression is boring.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side.
~By Marguerite Young ~
I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
~By Mark Burnett ~
I believe that true beauty of chess is more than enough to satisfy all possible demands.
~By Alexander Alekhine ~
When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.
~By Christy Turlington ~
Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
~By Luis Barragan ~
Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.
~By Jean Paul ~
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
~By John Erskine ~
Beauty: the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.
~By Leon Battista Alberti ~
For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
~By Xenophon ~
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
~By James Dean ~
Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.
~By Timothy Radcliffe ~
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.
~By Ellsworth Huntington ~
There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.
~By H. R. Giger ~
Beauty and fullness of tone can be achieved by having the whole orchestra play with high clarinets and a carefully selected number of piccolos.
~By Gustav Mahler ~
To love beauty is to see light.
~By Victor Hugo ~
What matters poverty? What matters anything to him who is enamoured of our art? Does he not carry in himself every joy and every beauty?
~By Sarah Bernhardt ~
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
~By Bob Dylan ~
Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides.
~By Junichiro Tanizaki ~
I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
~By Ossie Davis ~
One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.
~By Ed Rendell ~
Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
~By Candice Bergen ~
I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.
~By Gwyneth Paltrow ~
It would be difficult for me not to conclude that the most perfect type of masculine beauty is Satan, as portrayed by Milton.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
~By Dame Edith Evans ~
Music, art, theater. I'm just a big fan of beauty.
~By Jerry Hall ~
Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.
~By Chanakya ~
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
~By Saint Augustine ~
Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge.
~By Jeanne Moreau ~
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.
~By Joanne Woodward ~
At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.
~By Toni Morrison ~
Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
~By Anna Katharine Green ~
Unless action is taken soon - unless we can display the same vision of that earlier period - we will lose the treasure of California's open space and environmental beauty.
~By Adam Schiff ~
When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
~By Bernard Berenson ~
The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.
~By Clifford Geertz ~
For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
~By Edwin Way Teale ~
Anything 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.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
I think Whitman more than any other poet possessed the gift of revealing to others the beauty of everything around us, the beauty of nature, the beauty of human beings.
~By Ella R. Bloor ~
You don't know what the Chinese expect in the way of beauty. The presentation is just a farce. You come into a room filled with 50 people and they don't talk to you. There's very little interaction.
~By Helmut Jahn ~
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or "convulsive" beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.
~By Jeff Vandermeer ~
Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.
~By Theophile Gautier ~
The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
~By Virginia Woolf ~
Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
~By Charles Baudelaire ~
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.
~By William C. Bryant ~
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
~By Christian Nestell Bovee ~
Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere.
~By Chaim Potok ~
For the greater beauty of the instrument, the balls representing the planets are to be of considerable bigness; but so contrived, that they may be taken off at pleasure, and others, much smaller, and fitter for some purposes, put in their places.
~By David Rittenhouse ~
I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
~By James Weldon Johnson ~
People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart.
~By Candice Bergen ~
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.
~By Christian Dior ~
It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
~By Walter Hagen ~
Do not try to push your way through to the front ranks of your profession; do not run after distinctions and rewards; but do your utmost to find an entry into the world of beauty.
~By Sydney Smith ~
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
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.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
~By Annie Dillard ~
Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home.
~By Henry Drummond ~
Rare is the union of beauty and purity.
~By Juvenal ~
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other.
~By Marcus V. Pollio ~
That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
Beauty, of course, is the most important requirement and the paramount asset of the applicant.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime.
~By Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel ~
It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
~By Hans Urs von Balthasar ~
Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.
~By L. Wolfe Gilbert ~
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