Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth; I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
-Khalil Gibran
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
Beauty nourishes the soul as the food feeds the body.
-Patience Strong
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
-John Ruskin
True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes.
-Judith McNaught
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
Among the many answers I have found, I believe love is the most beautiful and simple art that reflects the beauty of life.
-Mabel Iam
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within.
-Elisabeth Kubler Ross "Elisabeth Kubler-Ross"
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
