“There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn’t exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It’s beautiful and doomed.”— Viv Albertine, amazon.com
“The gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment may be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.”— Homer, amazon.com
“The Beautiful is always strange…it always contains a touch of strangeness, of simple, unpremeditated and unconscious strangeness, and it is that touch of strangeness that gives it its particular quality as Beauty.”— Charles Baudelaire, amazon.com
“You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid anymore.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.”— Maurice Sendak, harpers.org
“Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it’s sent away.”— Sarah Kay, goodreads.com
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”— Sigmund Freud, goodreads.com
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”— Thich Nhat Hanh, goodreads.com
“There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.”— Harry Crews, amazon.com