“Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.”
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“It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.”
“Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.”
“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”
“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!”
“Celibacy is not just a matter of not having sex. It is a way of admiring a person for their humanity, maybe even for their beauty.”
“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.”
“It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.”
“Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.”
“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.”
“There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.”
“Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.”
“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
“That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.”
“A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.”
“Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.”
“Beauty makes idiots sad and wise men merry.”
“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.”
“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.”
“Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.”
“I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.”
“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.”
“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.”
“At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.”