Beauty Quotes

I'd trade a hundred pretty faces for one person who's easy to talk to.

~ Marty Rubin

No one is more beautiful to me than a person who's easy to talk to.

~ Marty Rubin

No matter how beautiful or not one is perceived to be, the true beauty we all possess is found on the inside. That should be our focus and the measure by which we are judged. How do we move through life? What other lives have we touched? Who have we confronted with love? How have we changed the world for the better? Those are all qualities that can’t be countered or weighed. Really, beauty beyond size.

~ Ashley Graham

It's her black wings that make her beautiful.

~ Melody Lee

If your love for […] wants to do something now, then its work and task is this: to catch up with what it has missed. For it has failed to see whither this person has gone, it has failed to accompany her in her broadest development, it has failed to spread itself out over the new distances this person embraces, and it hasn’t ceased looking for her at a certain point in her growth, it wants obstinately to hold fast to a definite beauty beyond which she has passed, instead of persevering, confident of new shared beauties to come.”—from letter to Paula Modersohn-Becker Bremen (February 12, 1902)

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

…[S]uddenly your eye, which was already preparing itself for larger dimensions, goes about willingly with little, hesitating, hearkening steps over the many overgrown paths of a long dead experience and stands still by all its landmarks reverently and respectfully. And has forgotten the world, and has no world but a face. I know exactly everything you said then. The figure of the old lady who speaks rarely and reservedly, who hides her hands when a gesture of tenderness would move them, and who only with rare caresses builds bridges to a few people, bridges that no longer exist when she draws back her arm and lies again like an island fantastically repeated on all sides in the mirror of motionless waters. My eyes too were already caught up in the radiance and bound to great and deep beauties.”―from letter to Clara Westhoff Schmargendorf bei Berlin (October 18, 1900)

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

And you, Clara Westhoff, how simply and well you endured, lived through the experience, and made it a forward step in your young existence! So great was your love that it was able to forgive the great dying, and your eye was so sure, even then, that it conceived beauty in all the new colors, feelings, and gestures of the earth, and that all coming to an end seemed for your feeling only a pretext under which Nature wanted to unfold beauties yet unrevealed. Just as the eyes of angels rest on a dying child, delighting in the similar transfiguration of its half-released little face, so without concern you saw in the dying earth the smile and the beauty and the trust in eternity.―from letter to Clara Westhoff Schmargendorf (Sunday, November 18, 1900)

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Not much to look at, but as with all true beauty it is what's inside that counts.

~ Matt Sewell

Every new star that is found in the sky will lend of its rays to the passions, and thoughts, and the courage, of man. Whatever of beauty we see in all that surrounds us, within us already is beautiful; whatever we find in ourselves that is great and adorable, that do we find too in others.

~ Maurice Maeterlinck

Walking there, she said: Look, it seems like some one has kept each stone with measured precision at its place. Yes, she was right.

~ Mahrukh

You do not have to run with out a sigh, sometimes you gotta stay and have a break when you breath and admire the beauty of the journey.

~ Mahrukh

The favour of the Lord maketh a man's face to shine bright.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It seems that by the time the singular beauty of a flower in bloom can no longer pierce the veil of black or obsessive thoughts in a person's mind, that mind's connection to the sensual world has grown dangerously frayed.

~ Michael Pollan

Desire for beauty will endure and undermine the desire for truth.

~ Richard O. Prum

Your marks don’t matter when your radiance is overwhelming. When we’re our best selves we forget all those imperfections and appreciate beauty for how it is.

~ Saim .A. Cheeda

Beauty is everywhere you look, but you have to look.

~ Marty Rubin

If one can picture the words, then the works of the writer is an accomplishment!

~ Shobana

I heard her voice, her stories, her softness as she spoke of her family, and her iron as she spoke of me - I heard her scream, and I moved without thought.

~ Meagan Spooner

It takes my breath away! that's all that I can say.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

How beautiful this city, or perhaps any in the world, is to a woman who knows her bed awaits her even as she lingers, barefoot in the rain at midnight.

~ Sharanya Manivannan

It's okay to look different, Lilith. Beauty is only a matter of opinion. If you believe you are beautiful, then that's all that matters. These are really tough years you're approaching now. Your decisions now as a teenager can change your entire life. Just make sure you talk to me or comeone if you're ever feeling like life is too much to handle. And never let anyone convince you that you're not worthy, only to take advantage of you.

~ Penelope Ward

It's okay to look different, Lilith. Beauty is only a matter of opinion. If you believe you are beautiful, then that's all that matters. These are really tough years you're approaching now. Your decisions now as a teenager can change your entire life. Just make sure you talk to me or someone if you're ever feeling like life is too much to handle. And never let anyone convince you that you're not worthy, only to take advantage of you.

~ Penelope Ward

How can you love art, beauty, poetry, and hate life? That's like saying you love the ocean but hate water.

~ Marty Rubin

The beauty of this world is fading all too fast through the cruelty and thoughtlessness of men.

~ Julie C. Dao

He raised himself on his hands and looked at Irene's face: the nudity of that feminine body had risen into her face, the body had reabsorbed it, as nature reabsorbs forsaken gardens.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

The Prophet Muhammad said: Innallaha jamiil wahuwa yuhibbul jamal. Verily God is beautiful and loves beauty. -33

~ Ahmad Fuadi

This moment is all there is and LOVE is like the glue that keeps you in it.

~ Reuben Berger

How could anyone catch all of the beauty in the Present Moment, when, after years of misery, there was suddenly a day when all the wonderfulness of life unexpectedly blew down from all directions all at once?

~ Cintra Wilson

I scanned the room, knowing it couldn't take long to spot Annie, who had chosen to wear a floor-length 1960s muumuu in a deep shade of turquoise that looked, I had to admit, strikingly lovely against her honey-toned skin. Her dark hair was piled on top of her head, giving her a couple extra inches of height, and spiked through with a gold, rhinestone-encrusted chopstick. Or at least I thought it was a chopstick, but who knew what you called the utensil once it pierced a mound of hair. Perhaps just a stick? Regardless, she looked stunning- like a colorful little bird that surprises everyone with its audacity and out-of-place beauty by landing right in the middle of a bustling city sidewalk.

~ Meg Donohue

Beauty is fleeting. But the woman who fear God is blissful.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Within every beast there's always some beauty!

~ Perdita Finn

It's a rare man who can guard against beauty.

~ Anthony Ryan

A hundred lifetimes wouldn't suffice to see all the beauty in one acre of land.

~ Marty Rubin

Tie love and loyalty around your neck.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

We are given this beautiful life, this beautiful world, and we destroy it with ingratitude and hate.

~ Marty Rubin

A certain beauty in the world is no mark of God's favor, said Mr. Huss. There is no beauty one may not balance by an equal ugliness. The warthog and the hyena, the tapeworm and the stinkhorn, are equally God's creations. Nothing you have said points to anything but a cold indifference towards us of this order in which we live. Beauty happens; it is not given. Pain, suffering, happiness; there is no heed. Only in the heart of man burns the fire of righteousness.

~ H.g. Wells

All this under a magnificent blue sky.

~ Elie Wiesel

Women incorporate the values of the male sexual objectifiers within themselves. Catharine MacKinnon calls this being thingified in the head (MacKinnon, 1989). They learn to treat their own bodies as objects separate from themselves. Bartky explains how this works: the wolf whistle sexually objectifies a woman from without with the result that, ``The body which only a moment before I inhabited with such ease now floods my consciousness. I have been made into an object'' (Bartky, 1990, p. 27). She explains that it is not sufficient for a man simply to look at the woman secretly, he must make her aware of his looking with the whistle.She must, be made to know that I am a 'nice piece of ass': I must be made to see myself as they see me'' (p. 27). The effect of such male policing behaviour is that, Subject to the evaluating eye of the male connoisseur, women learn to evaluate themselves first and best' (Bartky, 1990, p. 28). Women thus become alienated from their own bodies.

~ Sheila Jeffreys

However, as Bordo herself notes, the problem with the adoption of postmodern ideas in general is that they have led some writers to disregard the materiality of power relations.

~ Sheila Jeffreys

...women's bodies are inferiorised, stigmatized . . . within an overarching patriarchal ideology.For example, biologically and physiologically, women's bodies are seen as both disgusting in their natural state and inferior to men's'' (2001, p. 141).

~ Sheila Jeffreys