Beauty quotes
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"There's beauty in the silver singing river There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty That I remember in my true love's eyes"
"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."
"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."
"I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness."
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."
"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty."
"When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection."
"At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman."
"Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty."
"The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility."
"You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight."
"Love is the beauty of the soul."
"It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know the sense of wonder and humility."
"The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth."
"The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul."
"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever."
"That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste."
"The nakedness of woman is the work of God."
"Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd."
