It’s beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.

—Anonymous

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

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn’t write anything without hope in it.

—Oscar Hammerstein

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.

—Hannah Arendt

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

—Helen Keller

Beauty I have learned from the ugly, charity from the unkind, and peace from the turmoil of the world.

—Frederick Ward Kates

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love.

—Evelyn Underhill

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 within.

—Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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 the mirror.

—Kahlil Gibran

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

 —Rabindranath Tagore

Beauty that dies the soonest has the longest life. Because it cannot keep itself for a day, we keep it forever. Because it can hove existence only in memory, we give it immortality there.

—Bertha Damon