If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
Quotations
Beauty
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
-Socrates
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Pain and beauty, our constant bedfellows.
-Nick Bantock
"Griffin and Sabine"
Straight is the line of duty; Curved is the line of beauty; follow the straight line, thou shalt see the curved line ever follow thee.
-William Maccall
Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.
-Charles Baudelaire
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
Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
-Markus Zusak
"I am the Messenger"
Maybe beauty, true beauty, is so overwhelming, it goes straight to our hearts. Maybe it makes us feel emotions that are locked away inside.
-James Patterson
"Sundays at Tiffany's"
