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Beauty

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul. – Alice Walker

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see. – George W. Russell

I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. – Author Unknown

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. – Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. – Khalil Gibran

Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God’s plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things. – Tertullian

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. – Ninon de L’Enclos

Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked. – Ralph Ellison, “Battle Royal”

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty — they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. – Martin Buxbaum

Close your eyes and see the beauty. – Author Unknown

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. – Leo Tolstoy

In every man’s heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. – Christopher Morley

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. – Simone Weil

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn! – Logan Pearsall Smith

I don’t like standard beauty — there is no beauty without strangeness. – Karl Lagerfeld

There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Beauty and folly are generally companions. – Baltasar Gracián, translated from Spanish

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. – Confucius

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. – Ralph Waldo Emerson