Beauty quotes
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"This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general."
"Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited."
"You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind."
"Nature reaches out to us with welcoming arms, and bids us enjoy her beauty; but we dread her silence and rush into the crowded cities, there to huddle like sheep fleeing from a ferocious wolf."
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread."
"No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around."
"For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people."
"The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it."
"How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands."
"I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it."
"Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."
"The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you."
"Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn."
"The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty."
"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."
"He who does not master the nude cannot understand the principles of architecture."
"Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar."
"I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows."
"I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same."
