Life Quotes

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

~ Jane Austen

The beauty comes with the balance. Everyone should find his own balance in his personal as well as his professional life. Once you do so, you will feel and look beautiful.

~ Karolina Kurkova

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

~ Henry James

In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.

~ Jonas Mekas

Parisian women have an inner elegance that's envied the world over. They are so relaxed about ageing and seem to acquire more charisma and beauty with time. Who wouldn't want to be like them? That's the trick - to embrace the natural progression of life and to be confident.

~ Naomi Watts

Laughter and joy are part of the beauty of life.

~ Diogo Morgado

Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.

~ Luis Barragán

I shall give you hunger, and pain, and sleepless nights. Also beauty, and satisfactions known to few, and glimpses of the heavenly life. None of these you shall have continually, and of their coming and going you shall not be foretold.

~ Howard Lindsay

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

~ Jean Ingelow

I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.

~ Chris Pine

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

~ Toni Morrison

I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.

~ Harmony Korine

This is the artist, then, life's hungry man, the glutton of eternity, beauty's miser, glory's slave.

~ Tom Wolfe

I did flirt with the idea of going to law school, but not for long. Maybe I'll play a lawyer one day - the beauty of acting is that you can try on so many different roles without having to commit to them in real life.

~ Elizabeth Debicki

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

~ Émile Zola

I do take very good care of myself, and I'm always in love. And by that I mean I have an appetite for life. I'm in love with beauty and things and people and love and being in love, and those things I think, on the inside, show on the outside.

~ Gloria Vanderbilt

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

~ Richard Cecil

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.

~ Max Eastman

Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city.

~ Urs Fischer

When girls feel bad about their looks, 60 percent avoid normal daily activities like raising their hand in class or even going to the doctor. That means that girls do not show up for life when they don't feel good enough or pretty enough. A role model can help girls see beauty as a source of confidence, not anxiety.

~ Mandy Moore

Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.

~ Kristin Armstrong

Some days, I know beauty techniques like it's my job, and other days I can't do my makeup for the life of me. So I find it easiest to just put on mineral veil and a little mascara and call it a day. I use Physician's Formula and Bare Minerals every day of my life.

~ Christian Serratos

I would like to show that I have a heart, that I am a human being and I have feelings. And to be this kind of role model, not only for beauty pageants but also for life.

~ Gabriela Isler

If the universal is the essential, then it is the basis of all life and art. Recognizing and uniting with the universal therefore gives us the greatest aesthetic satisfaction, the greatest emotion of beauty.

~ Piet Mondrian

Life doesn't care about your vision. Stuff happens, and you've just got to deal with it. You roll with it; that's the beauty of it all.

~ Harold Ramis

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

~ John Millington Synge

When I was young my Father used to tell me that the two most worthwhile pursuits in life were the pursuit of truth and of beauty and I believe that Alfred Nobel must have felt much the same when he gave these prizes for literature and the sciences.

~ Frederick Sanger

If you go through life, and you don't find the beauty in an unexpected place, then you really have a sad existence.

~ Octavia Spencer

Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

~ Milan Kundera

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

~ Christian Nestell Bovee

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

~ Boris Pasternak

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

I was always anti-marriage. I didn't understand monogamy. I couldn't figure out how that could last. And then I met Bryn and I started to understand the beauty of constancy and history and change and going on the roller coaster with someone - of having a partner in life.

~ Maria Bello

O human beauty, what a dream art thou, that we should cast our life and hopes away on thee!

~ Bryan Procter

The ever increasing spiritual damage caused by life within the big city will make this hunger practically uncontrollable when we build here on this the landscape of our homeland we must be clear that we will protect its beauty.

~ Fritz Todt

I believe that if life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade... And try to find somebody whose life has given them vodka, and have a party.

~ Ron White

Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

~ Brooke Shields

My life needs editing.

~ Mort Sahl

If my life wasn't funny, it would just be true, and that's unacceptable.

~ Carrie Fisher

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

~ Joan Rivers