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Quotes About Beauty

To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
~ Magic Johnson
We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art.
~ Oscar Wilde
The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
~ Ralph Waite
My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.
~ Ram Dass
Life is too wonderful, too full, too short and strength too limited to contain its wonder.
~ Ruth Draper
Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful.
~ Wayne Coyne
Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair, But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
~ William Blake
The good life is one that's artistically made.
~ William Shatner
We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.
~ George Santayana
Yes, too much emphasis is put on outward physical attributes in every area of American life.
~ Gloria Gaynor
It is the simplest things in life that hold the most wonder; the color of the sea, the sand between your toes, the laughter of a child.
~ Goldie
Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
~ Gwendolyn Brooks
... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.
~ Hannah More
I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.
~ Helena Bonham Carter
There can be no freedom or beauty about a home life that depends on borrowing and debt.
~ Henrik Ibsen
The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?
~ Henry David Thoreau
There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.
~ Hilary Swank
Memories beautify life, but the capacity to forget makes it bearable.
~ Honore de Balzac
Look for the music on all things, and life will be a symphony of joy. My music is best understood by children and animals.
~ Igor Stravinsky
Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough.
~ Jeanette Winterson
And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri