“Let all who prate of Beauty hold their peace, And lay them prone upon the earth and cease To ponder on themselves, the while they stare At nothing, intricately drawn nowhere.”— Edna St. Vincent Millay, amazon.com
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”— Sigmund Freud, goodreads.com
“She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“She’s not classically beautiful, but somehow that only makes her more interesting.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“Look at you. You’re the kindest person I know. Look how beautiful you are. Why do you need so much outside of yourself? Why isn’t what you are enough?”— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, amazon.com
“Stop worrying so much about your looks and start looking around you. You have missed so much beauty trying to become beautiful. You have missed your own worth trying to become worthy.”— Vironika Tugaleva, amazon.com
“But the most beautiful things in life are just not things. They’re people and places, memories and pictures. They’re feeling and moments and smiles and laughter.”— Unknown, wnq-anonymous.com
“The fire blazing in her dark and injured heart seemed to glow around her like a flame.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines. A lovely eloquence, a calming symmetry; none of that describes this woman’s face. So perhaps I should assume I cannot do it justice with words. Suffice it to say that it would break your he…”— Clive Barker, amazon.com
“The fountain of beauty is the heart, and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.”— Francis Quarles, jeffwalker.wordpress.com
“Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.”— David Hume, amazon.com
“You are beautiful because you let yourself feel, and that is a brave thing indeed.”— Shinji Moon, amazon.com
“Art requires philosophy, just as philosophy requires art. Otherwise, what would become of beauty?”— Paul Gauguin, amazon.com
“If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.”— Andrew Harvey, amazon.com
“People cannot relate to a perfectionist, there is beauty in brokenness. Your story will bring healing to others.”— Buky Ojelabi, bukyojelabi.com
“If I am holding a bee, what is in my eye? Beauty. Because beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”— CarrowFlinn, reddit.com