Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
Quotations
Beauty
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Beauty without expression is boring.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
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"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
