If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Beauty
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
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
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
-Nikolai Gogol
For beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror
which we are barely able to endure, and it amazes us so,
because it serenely disdains to destroy us.
Every angel is terrible.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
"Duino Elegies"
Beauty is the worst kind of lie.
-Beth Kephart
"Undercover"
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
-Dorothy Parker
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
-Thomas More
"Utopia"
Beauty is something that burns the hand when you touch it.
-Yukio Mishima
"Forbidden Colors"
