True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.
-Steve Maraboli
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
-Francis Bacon