Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
Quotations
Beauty
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
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"
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"
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
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
Wherever there is real creative work, it is almost always associated with beauty.
-I. K. Taimni
