The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
Quotations
Beauty
All kinds of beauty do not inspire love; there is a kind which only pleases the sight, but does not captivate the affections.
-Miguel De Cervantes
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Beauty, n: the power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
-Ambrose Bierce
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that beauty is nothing more than an accident.
-Charlie Fletcher
"Silvertongue"
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
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.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
