Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are
-Ellen DeGeneres
"Seriously...I'm Kidding"
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
