“When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.”
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“I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.”
“Beauty is only skin deep.”
“You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.”
“The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.”
“Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.”
“It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty.”
“There is hope and a kind of beauty in there somewhere, if you look for it.”
“The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.”
“Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.”
“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.”
“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”
“A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.”
“Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour it's based on femininity.”
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
“'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
“Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.”
“I am a thing of beauty.”
“The beauty, the poetry of the fear in their eyes. I didn't mind going to jail for, what, five, six hours? It was absolutely worth it.”
“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.”
“It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.”
“A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.”
“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?”