There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.
-Vik Muniz
The mirror is the worst judge of true beauty.
-Sophia Nam
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charmimg at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
-Coco Chanel
A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
-Baltasar Gracián
"The Art of Worldly Wisdom"
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
-Drew Barrymore
One man’s justice is another’s injustice; one man’s beauty, another’s ugliness; one man’s wisdom, another’s folly.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
