Quotes on Beauty

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.

At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough.

What is the body? That shadow of a shadow_x000D_ _x000D_ of your love, that somehow contains_x000D_ _x000D_ the entire universe.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Nobody loves a woman because she is handsome or ugly, stupid or intelligent. We love because we love.

It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.

You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since.

Girls of all kinds can be beautiful - from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned; the quirky, clumsy, shy, outgoing and all in between. It's not easy though because many people still put beauty into a confining, narrow box...Think outside of the box...Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within.

How goodness heightens beauty!

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the US Bureau of Wild Life.

Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of the complexity of the world -- its beauty, its mysteries, its riddles. The more you understand, the more you look, the greater is your enjoyment of life and your sense of peace. That's all there is to it. Everything else is fun and games. If an activity is not grounded in "to love" or "to learn" it does not have value.

With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration.