925 private quotes tagged beauty

“Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.” — John Ruskin

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“No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.” — Albrecht Durer

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“The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.” — William Wordsworth

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“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.” — Galileo Galilei

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“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?” — Richard P. Feynman

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“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.” — Honore de Balzac

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“That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.” — Kevyn Aucoin

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“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.” — Arthur Helps

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“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.” — Toni Morrison

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“When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.” — Dimebag Darrell

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“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.” — Lewis Mumford

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“Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-a-s red lipstick.” — Gwyneth Paltrow

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“To me, teamwork is the beauty of our sport, where you have five acting as one. You become selfless.” — Mike Krzyzewski

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“There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.” — Amy Grant

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“The most common error made in matters of appearance is the belief that one should disdain the superficial and let the true beauty of one's soul shine through. If there are places on your body where this is a possibility, you are not attractive - you are leaking.” — Charles Lamb

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“Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.” — Simone Weil

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“Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.” — Mark Hyman

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“If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.” — Matthew Fox

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“I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.” — Boris Pasternak

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“Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” — Mary Wollstonecraft

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“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.” — Laurence J. Peter

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“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.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan

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“A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the modern equivalent of 'curb appeal.' Rent a wide-angle lens and good lighting, get rid of your clutter and post at least eight great photos to win the beauty contest.” — Barbara Corcoran

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“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.” — Charles Baudelaire

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