Quotes About Perception

There are girls, not specially beautiful, whom you could not lose in a crowd. There are other girls, apparently perfect in beauty, who seem to melt into insignificance.

Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer.

Your clothes conceal much of your beauty, yet they hide not the unbeautiful.

Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - beautiful?

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

I always hear myself saying , 'She's a beauty!' or 'He's a beauty!' or 'What a beauty!' but I never know what I'm talking about.

'Tis not a lip, or eye, we beauty call, But the joint force and full result of all.

Photography teaches us to see, and we can see whatever we wish. When I take a photograph, I make a wish. I was always looking for beauty.

I refuse to believe that the processed beauty that I see around me is what I have to be.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'

Why should beauty be suspect?

Know that however ugly the parts appear the whole remains beautiful.

The beautiful invariably possesses a visible and a hidden beauty; and it is certain that no style is so beautiful as that which presents to the attentive reader a half-hidden meaning.

I try to figure out - intellectually, philosophically, psychologically - what the experience of beauty is.

Every thoughtful pin on pinterest has beauty. But not everyone can see.

You can see beauty in everything, except for yourself.

I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

If you speak of beauty, you are at once suspected of...kitsch.

A beautiful woman, if poor, should use double circumspection; for her beauty will tempt others, her poverty herself.

To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty.