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Beauty

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind. – James Hillman

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever. – Helen Rowland

Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside. – Emmanuelle Beart

Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you. – Anne Lamott

Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly. – Arthur Erickson

I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes. – Peggy Fleming

Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts. – Serge Gainsbourg

Let me tell you something – being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory. – Halle Berry

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most. – St. Jerome

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. – Camille Paglia

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. – Camille Paglia

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people. – Anthony Kiedis

A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor. – Xenophon

Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul. – George Bancroft

The pain passes, but the beauty remains. – Auguste Renoir

I always find beauty in things that are odd and imperfect – they are much more interesting. – Marc Jacobs

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday. – John Clayton

But the gravest difficulty, and perhaps the most important, in poetry meant solely for recitation, is the difficulty of achieving verbal beauty, or rather of making verbal beauty tell. – Lascelles Abercrombie

Beyond the beauty, the sex, the titillation, the surface, there is a human being. And that has to emerge. – Jeanne Moreau

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty – they were coming from a universal and personal place. – Annie Lennox