Inspirations

There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

- Joseph Addison

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

- James Allen

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

- Father Andre

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

- Jean Anouilh

Things are beautiful if you love them.

- Jean Anouilh

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

- Aristotle

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

- George Bancroft

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

- Charles Baudelaire

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

- Hada Bejar

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

- Al Bernstein

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

- Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

- Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

- Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

- Horace

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

- Vernon Howard

Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

- John Keats

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

- Ninon De L'Enclos

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

- Sir John Lubbock

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

- W. Somerset Maugham

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

- W. Somerset Maugham

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

- Felix Mendelssohn

How goodness heightens beauty!

- Hannah More

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

- Christopher Morley

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

- Lewis Mumford

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.

- Edward A. Navajo

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

- Hugh Nibley

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

- Blaise Pascal

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

- Pindar

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.

- Plato

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

- Plotinus

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work. So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall shine out o n you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine

- Plotinus

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

- Edgar Allan Poe

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

- Katherine Anne Porter

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

- French Proverb

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

- Persian Proverb

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

- Thomas De Quincey

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

- John Ray

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

- Charles Reade

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

- Tim Robbins

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

- Jalal-Uddin Rumi

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

- John Ruskin

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

- George Santayana

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

- Sappho

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

- Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

- Sir Richard Steele

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

- Henri B. Stendhal

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 Carmichael Stopes

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how pr ecious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty.

- St. Teresa of Avila

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

- Count Leo Tolstoy

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

- Upham

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

- Oscar Wilde

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

- Portuguese Proverb

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine g oodness.

- Christian Nevell Bovee

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

- Christian Nevell Bovee

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

- Confucius

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

- Dante

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence.

What ever beauty may be, it has for its basis order, and for its essence unity.

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

Things are beautiful if you love them.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.

Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself.

Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest.

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good; but that which is good is always beautiful.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.

The ideal has many names, and beauty is but one of them.

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

How goodness heightens beauty!

In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

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.

Beauty is whatever gives joy.

Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by necessity.

Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own --even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Beauty, unaccompanied by virtue, is as a flower without perfume.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Let us live for the beauty of our own reality.

Let the beauty we love be what we do.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

If you have never seen beauty in a moment of suffering, you have never seen beauty at all. If you have never seen joy in a beautiful face, you have never seen joy at all.

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.

Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.

Beauty is a good letter of introduction.

Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine g oodness.

The beauty seen, is partly in him who sees it.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

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