925 private quotes tagged beauty

“The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.” — William Wordsworth

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“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.” — Virginia Woolf

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“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?” — Richard P. Feynman

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“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.” — Honore de Balzac

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“That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.” — Kevyn Aucoin

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“She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.” — Groucho Marx

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“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.” — Toni Morrison

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“When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.” — Dimebag Darrell

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“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.” — Lewis Mumford

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“Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-a-s red lipstick.” — Gwyneth Paltrow

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“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” — Mike Krzyzewski

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“There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.” — Amy Grant

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“The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.” — Charles Lamb

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“Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.” — Simone Weil

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“Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.” — Priscilla Presley

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“Poetry is something to make us wiser and better, by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth, which God has set in all men's souls.” — James Russell Lowell

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“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.” — Boris Pasternak

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“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” — Mary Wollstonecraft

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“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.” — Hans Urs von Balthasar

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“A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.” — Barbara Corcoran

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“Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.” — Galileo Galilei

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“There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.” — Arthur Helps

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“Beauty is only temporary, but your mind lasts you a lifetime.” — Alicia Machado

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“A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan

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