"Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are."
— Markus Zusak (I Am the Messenger)

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
— Anne Frank

"Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
— Confucius

"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: But a woman who fears the Lord,
She shall be praised."
— Proverbs 31:30

"He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music."
— Mark Helprin (Winter's Tale)

"i can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. it expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. "
— Virginia Woolf

"You can never have too much sky . You can fall asleep and wake up drunk on sky, and sky can keep you safe when you are sad. Here there is too much sadness and not enough sky. Butterflies too are few and so are flowers and most things that are beautiful. Still, we take what we can get and make the best of it."
— Sandra Cisneros (The House on Mango Street)

"Beauty is a whore, I like money better."
— Michael Cunningham (The Hours)

"...beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"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."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Duino Elegies)

"The better you look, the more you see."
— Bret Easton Ellis (Glamorama)

"We wear on our faces the results of what we believe and how we behave, and such behavior is most evident in the eyes and on the faces of those who have lived many years."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes)

"Beauty surrounds us."
— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

"Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist."
— Margaret Cho

"And if these mountains had eyes, they would wake to find two strangers in their fences, standing in admiration as a breathing red pours its tinge upon earth's shore. These mountains, which have seen untold sunrises, long to thunder praise but stand reverent, silent so that man's weak praise should be given God's attention."
— Donald Miller (Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road)

"Besides, it happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated. Most women know this feeling of being more and more invisible everyday."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"Whatever the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth -whether it existed before or not"
— John Keats

"It’s a secondhand world we’re born into. What is novel to us is only so because we’re newborn, and what we cannot see, that has come before- what our parents have seen and been and done- are the hand-me-downs we begin to wear as swaddling clothes, even as we ourselves are naked. The flaw runs through us, implicating us in its imperfection even as it separates us, delivers us onto opposite sides of a chasm. It is both terribly beautiful and terribly sad, but it is, finally, the fault in the universe that gives birth to us all."
— Katherine Min (Secondhand World)

"From the poem " What is Charm ? "

Charm is the measure of attraction's power to chain the fleeting fancy
Of an hour and rival all the spell
Of beauty's dower.

A subtle grace of heart and mind
That flows with tactful sympathy;
The sweetest rose, If not the fairest ,
That garden knows.

A quick responsivness in word and deed,
A dignity and statliness at need,
The will to follow or the art to lead.

She to whom this most gracious gift is
Know has life's great potent factor for her own, and rules alike the Cottage and the throne."
— Louisa Caroll Thomas

"When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other"
— Chinese Proverb

"ROMEO O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear."
— William Shakespeare

"When a girl is beautiful, she gets to pick - she never has to wait for someone to choose her."
— Adriana Trigiani

"Were we to confront our creaturehood squarely, how would we propose to educate? The answer, I think is implied in the root of the word education, educe, which means "to draw out." What needs to be drawn out is our affinity for life. That affinity needs opportunities to grow and flourish, it needs to be validated, it needs to be instructed and disciplined, and it needs to be harnessed to the goal of building humane and sustainable societies. Education that builds on our affinity for life would lead to a kind of awakening of possibilities and potentials that lie dormant and unused in the industrial-utilitarian mind. Therefore the task of education, as Dave Forman stated, is to help us 'open our souls to love this glorious, luxuriant, animated, planet.' The good news is that our own nature will help us in the process if we let it."
— David Orr

"But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting.

Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu..."
— W. Somerset Maugham

"Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come."
— Frances Mayes (In Tuscany)

"But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills,
And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me,
And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d
To dwell in presence of immortal youth,
Immortal age beside immortal youth,
And all I was, in ashes.
- Tithonus"
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

"In fiction, beauty was run-of-the-mill."
— Eileen Favorite (The Heroines)

"There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle."
— T.S. Eliot

"...gracious your form and your eyes as honey : desire is poured upon your lovely face Aphrodite has honored you exceedingly..."
— Sappho

"Above and below me hovers the beautiful. I am surrounded by it. I am immersed in it. In my youth I am aware of it. And in old age I shall walk quietly the beautiful trail."
— Navajo prayer

"Dream Song:

The heavens
Go with me. "
— Frances Densmore (American Indians and Their Music)

"I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (Emerson's Prose and Poetry)

"Long hair will make thee look dreafully to thine enemies, and manly to thy
friends: it is, in peace, an ornament; in war, a strong helmet; it...
deadens the leaden thump of a bullet: in winter, it is a warm nightcap; in summer,
a cooling fan of feathers."
— Thomas Dekker (The guls horne-booke, 1609)

"If you see those pretty things
that nature likes to show
Remember all those seals that sing
And leave them there to grow."
— Stephen Cosgrove (Trapper)

"'It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying."
— Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping: A Novel)

"Thirty spokes
Share one hub.
Make the nothing therein appropriate, and you will have the use of the cart."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

"Dream Song:

In the heavens
A noise,
Like the rustling of the trees. "
— American Indian Songs, tr. Frances Densmore

"On the shining yards of heaven
See a wider dawn unfurled. . . .
The eternal slaves of beauty
Are the masters of the world."
— Bliss Carman (Songs from Vagabondia)