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
We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.
-Robert Brault
No matter how plain a woman maybe, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
-Eleanor Roosevelt
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
-Anne Frank
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
