On Beauty

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Anne Frank

 

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Miller

 

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

 

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

 

The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.

Reverend Sean Parker Dennison

 

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

Salma Hayek

 

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. 

Karl Lagerfeld

 

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

Kahlil Gibran

 

Beauty has its origins within the character of the one seeking it. Those masses that are vain, ephemeral, and shallow can do no more than recognize cheap beauty. Yet, there are a fortunate few whose sincere understanding of a divine eternal worth will not only allows them to discover, but appreciate authentic beauty everywhere they venture.

~M.R.