Ah, beauty. What a touchy subject! It’s all around us, it’s in the eye of the beholder, of course. But in a world that values perfection so greatly, it’s often hard to find your own beauty without comparing and judging. Here are a few inspirational words on the topic:
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see. ~George W. Russell
I’ve never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful. ~Author Unknown
By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. ~Rabindrath Tagore
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. ~Kahlil Gibran
Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line of their eyes with black coloring. Doubtless they are dissatisfied with God’s plastic skill. In their own persons they convict and censure the Artificer of all things. ~Tertullian
That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful. ~Ninon de L’Enclos
Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum
Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being
~Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Rhodora”
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. ~Leo Tolstoy
Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5. ~Roseanne Barr
I don’t like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. ~Karl Lagerfeld
