Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Quotations
Beauty
There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
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"
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
...you don't have to be perfect to be pretty.
-Carson Kressley
Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
The ideal has many names and beauty is but one of them.
-W. Somerset Maugham
"Cakes and Ale"
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
-Okakura Kakuzō
"The Book of Tea"
What would beauty be if the whole world were blind?
-Marty Rubin
