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"
Quotations
Beauty
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
Beauty soaks reality as water fills a rag.
-Chet Raymo
"Honey from Stone: A Naturalist's Search for God"
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are
-Ellen DeGeneres
"Seriously...I'm Kidding"
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
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
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"
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
