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Beauty

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul’s own doing. – Marie Stopes

Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption. – Henry David Thoreau, journal, 1852 June 11th

Beauty — in projection and perceiving — is 99.9% attitude. – Grey Livingston

Beauty?… To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. – Pablo Picasso

I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want — an adorable pancreas? – Jean Kerr, The Snake Has All the Lines

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. – Saint Augustine

There is no torture that a woman would not endure to enhance her beauty. – Michel de Montaigne

Taking joy in living is a woman’s best cosmetic. – Rosalind Russell

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow’s feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong. – George Bernard Shaw, to Mrs. Patrick Campbell

To love beauty is to see light. – Victor Hugo

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. – Anne Roiphe

People are like stained – glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. – Albert Einstein

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. – Ashley Smith

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases it will never pass into nothingness. – John Keats

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. – Khalil Gibran

A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you. – Adlai E. Stevenson

Beauty and folly are old companions. – Benjamin Franklin

Rare is the union of beauty and purity. – Juvenal

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. – Aristotle