“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Used by Nelson Mandela in his 1994 inaugural speech
CUJules Maryanne Williamson quotes
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“The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.”
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“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.”
Ashley Smith quotes
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“Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.”
Mark Overby quotes
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“No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.”
Oscar Wilde quotes (Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900)
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“It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.”
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“You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her”
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“For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.”
Ivan Panin quotes (Russian mathematician1855-1942)
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“Love of beauty is Taste. The creation of beauty is Art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes (American Poet, Lecturer and Essayist, 1803-1882)
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
John Muir
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Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see.
George W. Russell
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I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful.
Author Unknown
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
Rabindrath Tagore
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Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
Kahlil Gibran
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Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God's plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things.
Tertullian
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That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.
Ninon de L'Enclos
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
Ralph Ellison, "Battle Royal"
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Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.
Martin Buxbaum
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Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "The Rhodora"
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
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In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
Christopher Morley
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Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil
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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!
Logan Pearsall Smith
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The most beautiful view is the one I share with you.
Author Unknown
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb
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Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5.
Roseanne
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I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.
Karl Lagerfeld
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Gilbert Keith Chesterton
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Beauty and folly are generally companions.
Baltasar Gracian
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Beauty comes as much from the mind as from the eye.
Grey Livingston
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We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
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Plainness as its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.
George Eliot
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As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Johann von Goethe
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A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.
Karl Kraus
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Beauty 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 Ruskin
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Beauty in the flesh will continue to rule the world.
Florenz Ziegfeld
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Do I love you because you're beautiful,
Or are you beautiful because I love you?
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, Cinderella
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, 1851
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Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Stendhal
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One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on the edge of space. Millions of stars blazed in darkness, and on the far shore a few lights burned in cottages. Otherwise there was no reminder of human life. My companion and I were alone with the stars: the misty river of the Milky Way flowing across the sky, the patterns of the constellations standing out bright and clear, a blazing planet low on the horizon. It occurred to me that if this were a sight that could be seen only once in a century, this little headland would be thronged with spectators. But it can be see many scores of nights in any year, and so the lights burned in the cottages and the inhabitants probably gave not a thought to the beauty overhead; and because they could see it almost any night, perhaps they never will.
Rachel Carson
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Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Walt Whitman
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Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Beauty... is the shadow of God on the universe.
Gabriela Mistral, Desolacíon
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Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart.
ate Dircks
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You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
Marie Stopes
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Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude.
Grey Livingston
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Beauty?... To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.
Pablo Picasso
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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines
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Beauty 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 Augustine
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Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.
Rosalind Russell
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell
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Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.
Garrison Keillor
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“Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective.”
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“Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her”
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“People 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-Ross quotes (Swiss-American psychiatrist and author )
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“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it”
Confucius quotes (China's most famous teacher, philosopher, and political theorist, 551-479 BC)
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“The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart”
Helen Keller quotes (American Author and Educator who was blind and deaf. 1880-1968)
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“It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before”
Jane Austen quotes (British Novelist and Writer, 1775-1817)
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“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart”
Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)
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“Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break.”
Sara Teasdale quotes
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“When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty.”
Kahlil Gibran quotes (Lebanese born American philosophical Essayist, Novelist and Poet. 1883-1931)
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“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
Sophia Loren quotes (Italian film Actress, b.1934)
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Beauty 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 Camus
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The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. . . . The ordinary objects of human endeavour -- property, outward success, luxury -- have always seemed to me contemptible.
Albert Einstein
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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein
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A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein
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The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
Anais Nin
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Joy is the best makeup.
Anne Lamott
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When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Buckminster Fuller
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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.
Candace Bergen
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When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese proverb
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Sex 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.
D. H. Lawrence
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To those who followed Columbus and Cortez, the New World truly seemed incredible because of the natural endowments. The land often announced itself with a heavy scent miles out into the ocean. Giovanni di Verrazano in 1524 smelled the cedars of the East Coast a hundred leagues out. The men of Henry Hudson's Half Moon were temporarily disarmed by the fragrance of the New Jersey shore, while ships running farther up the coast occasionally swam through large beds of floating flowers. Wherever they came inland they found a rich riot of color and sound, of game and luxuriant vegetation. Had they been other than they were, they might have written a new mythology here. As it was, they took inventory.
Frederick Turner
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I said to myself -- I'll paint what I see -- what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking time to look at it -- I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
Helen Keller
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The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
Henry Miller
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I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
Jean Kerr
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A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
John Keats
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Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
John Ruskin
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Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
Kahlil Gibran
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Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn!
Kalidasa
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The day I see a leaf is a marvel of a day.
Kenneth Patton
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love me?
Oscar Hammerstein, II
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The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre Auguste Renoir
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Rachel Carson
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It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility.
Rachel Carson
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What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Spirituality exists wherever we struggle with the issue of how our lives fit into the greater cosmic scheme of things. This is true even when our questions never give way to specific answers or give rise to specific practices such as prayer or meditation. We encounter spiritual issues every time we wonder where the universe comes from, why we are here, or what happens when we die. We also become spiritual when we become moved by values such as beauty, love, or creativity that seem to reveal a meaning or power beyond our visible world. An idea or practice is "spiritual" when it reveals our personal desire to establish a felt-relationship with the deepest meanings or powers governing life.
Robert C. Fuller :
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It is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes will take care of themselves.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing: -- "Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade.
Rudyard Kipling
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Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.
Sir Walter Scott
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Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
Sophia Loren
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Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow,
No flowers of life will cheer me: instead
You may give me my roses now!
Thomas F. Healey:
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The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf
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Oh, this is the joy of the rose: / That it blows, / And goes.
Willa Cather
