“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”— Franz Kafka, kafka-online.info
“There is a life and there is a death, and there are beauty and melancholy between.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“The beauty is an illusion, and also a warning: there’s a dark side to beauty, as with poisonous butterflies.”— Margaret Atwood, amazon.com
“The appearance of things change according to the emotions, and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“Some days, it seems to me like the purpose of life is to convert energy into beauty and I know that that's not... rationally true; but some days, it's okay for things to not be rationally true.”— Hank Green, youtube.com
“It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape.”— Emily St. John Mandel, amazon.com
“Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale.”— Lauren DeStefano, amazon.com
“From the quark to the supernova, the wonders do not cease. It is our attentiveness that is in short supply.”— John Green, youtube.com
“Toni Morrison once wrote that 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. So I turned off my camera, and it was. It was enough.”— John Green, youtube.com
“You go to work and you dream about another life, another era, another time when life was more about peace rather than stress, when less was more, when beauty wasn’t so hard to find.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“If the guy keeps complimenting your appearance, it’s a good sign that he’s romantically interested.”— Beauty And Tips, beautyandtips.com
“You can be beautiful, kind and, also, strong. Strength can be shown in very many ways besides a sword or bow.”— Ufuoma Apoki, amazon.com
“Screw pretty. I'd rather be strong. Pretty fades over time. Strength gets you through the bad shit.”— Thea Harrison, amazon.com
“Not many people can color outside the lines, as beautifully as you can.”— Jennifer Meade, thoughtcatalog.com