We are immersed in beauty, but our eyes have no clear vision.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson"
Quotations
Beauty
Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?
-Richard Rodgers
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella"
Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
-Anonymous
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
"The Princess Bride"
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
-Confucius
Death is the mother of beauty. Only the perishable can be beautiful, which is why we are unmoved by artificial flowers.
-Wallace Stevens
There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.
-Cynthia Hand
"Hallowed"
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
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
