True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
Quotations
Beauty
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
-John Keats
Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.
-Graham Greene
"The Heart of the Matter"
Look at me--a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
-RuPaul
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
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
-Immanuel Kant
"Critique of Judgment"
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.
-Steve Maraboli
