There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
-Michael Cunningham
"The Hours"
Quotations
Beauty
Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.
-William Goldman
If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
-Criss Jami
You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.
-Jeanette Winterson
"Written on the Body"
There is no better cosmetic, than the laughter on a woman’s face.
-Estée Lauder
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
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
-Khalil Gibran
Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
-Rabindranath Tagore
Secrets are generally terrible. Beauty is not hidden--only ugliness and deformity.
-L. M. Montgomery
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
