Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can’t live like that or live on that, that’s what I’ve learnt.
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
To experience sublime natural beauty is to confront the total inadequacy of language to describe what you see. Words cannot convey the scale of a view that is so stunning it is felt.
Happy Skin is all about natural beauty. They don’t want you to wear something that’s harsh on your skin and I want that as well.
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
There’s a lot of beauty in the world, so go hang out and go be a part of the solution rather than the problem.
Walk to work, even if it’s four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You’d be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you’re looking for unique spots of beauty.
Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Do not waste time dreaming of great faraway opportunities; do the best you can where you are. Open your petals of power and beauty and fling out the fragrance of your life in the place that has been assigned to you.
True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others.
The more often we see the things around us – even the beautiful and wonderful things – the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds – even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less.
That’s the beauty of short films; their strength lies in delivering a message creatively and simply.
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.
It’s important for women to embrace their beauty and sexuality. Females are victimized and made to feel ashamed of their bodies, or they can’t be smart and beautiful, and I try to work against that.
We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature’s greatest healers.
It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
Sleeping and water are lifesavers – that’s true beauty right there.
I really like Pam Grier’s whole ‘Coffy’ aesthetic. It’s just natural. It’s not even anything that they were overdoing back then. I really like that natural beauty kind of thing. But at the same time, I really like thick, winged eyeliner.
Whenever I talk about the Bahamas and its beauty, I could never stop talking about my God, who has given us all of this beauty.
That’s the beauty about beauty; it’s not like a tattoo. You can just wash it right off, and your skin is your canvas, so you can do something new the next day.
The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.
‘Beauty’ is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
As a Californian, I feel lucky to live in what is truly the Golden State – a place of sunshine, agricultural bounty, natural beauty, technological innovation, and boundless optimism.
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
You have to spend some energy and effort to see the beauty of math.
Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.
Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two – beauty and violence – live side by side, and how moments can be created and erased almost simultaneously. Destruction is painful, but at times it can be very cathartic.
There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.
Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.
This idea that being youthful is the only thing that’s beautiful or attractive simply isn’t true. I don’t want to be an ‘ageless beauty.’ I want to be a woman who is the best I can be at my age.
I believe in Liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls, the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
Being natural is incredibly empowering for women because it’s just who you are. You’re embracing all the beautiful things about you from your head to your toes. Because when you mask so much of your natural beauty, people don’t get to see that.
If you do something that you’re proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn’t there before – you can’t beat that.
Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.
Beauty is what I believe in. I want to act and make decisions based on what I believe.
I always hear myself saying, ‘She’s a beauty!’ or ‘He’s a beauty!’ or ‘What a beauty!’ but I never know what I’m talking about.
Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age – as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.
Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we’ll both play completely differently. That’s the beauty of being a musician.
While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful.
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.
What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.
A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works.
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.
I’ve suffered quite a lot, to the point where I’ve experienced death. Years before I wasn’t fit to die, but I understand life better now. Death is nice, death is beauty.
‘Green Garden’ is about beauty and joy and lush green and dance and excitement and smiling from within.
Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.
We’ve all lived through something horrific, but the strength and beauty and knowledge that we’re going to win eventually is what keeps me going.
I guess you could say my beauty routine is to do fun stuff with great people, laugh lots, work hard and be kind: because when I’m stimulated, invigorated and exhilarated, that’s when I feel beautiful.
I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don’t expect it.
When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
From his roots as a slave, the American Negro – sometimes sorrowing, sometimes jubilant but always hopeful – has touched, illuminated, and influenced the most remote preserves of world civilisation. I and my dance theater celebrate this trembling beauty.
Design is not making beauty, beauty emerges from selection, affinities, integration, love.
I work a lot in the slums of Tondo, Manila, and the life there is poor and very sad. And I’ve always taught to myself to look for the beauty of it and look in the beauty of the faces of the children and to be grateful.
