True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Quotations
Beauty
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
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"
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are
-Ellen DeGeneres
"Seriously...I'm Kidding"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Beauty is the virtue of the body as virtue is the beauty of the soul.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
-George Bernard Shaw
