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Quotes About Perception

She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.
~ J. K. Rowling
Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.
~ Pamela Anderson
Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.
~ Martha Beck
When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.
~ Khalil Gibran
Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.
~ Alexander McQueen
Beauty is only a look. It has nothing to do with what I'm like inside.
~ Sharon Tate
Judge the moth by the beauty of the candle
~ Rumi
Can you see the beauty in a cockroach?
~ Wayne Dyer
Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck.
~ Eli Wallach
I can see the beauty of glass objects fully at the moment when they slip from my hand
~ Andrew Solomon
If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert you will have an audience.
~ Khalil Gibran
Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation - I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances.
~ Henri Matisse
Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.
~ Murasaki Shikibu
Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.
~ Natalie Dormer
If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The open heart sees, feels and absorbs the beauty of the world.
~ Sonia Choquette
At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy.
~ Arthur Golden
Beauty is a delightful prejudice.
~ Theocritus
Beauty is a mute deception.
~ Theophrastus
You say that in heaven there is eternal beauty. The eternal beauty is here and now, not in heaven.
~ Rajneesh
Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.
~ Junichirô Tanizaki
Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors.
~ Joseph Addison
If we were doomed to live forever, we would scarcely be aware of the beauty around us.
~ Peter Matthiessen