Beauty quotes

A collection of quotes on the topic of wise, beauty, beauty, peaceful.

Best beauty quotes

Rumi photo

“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

As quoted in Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work (2000) by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51

Vincent Van Gogh photo

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
Khalil Gibran photo
Jean Anouilh photo
Confucius photo

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
James M. Cain photo

“If you have to do it, you can do it.”

Mildred Pierce

Charles Baudelaire photo
Libba Bray photo

“To live is to love, to love is to live.”

Source: Going Bovine

Joseph Campbell photo

“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

“Beauty is the illumination of your soul.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom

Beauty quotes

Paul Walker photo
Marcus Aurelius photo
Marilyn Monroe photo

“It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

Variant: Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

Abraham Lincoln photo
John Donne photo

“No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

No. 9, The Autumnal, line 1
Elegies
Source: The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

John Lennon photo
Allen Ginsberg photo

“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”

Variant: Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Source: Howl and Other Poems

Jacques-Yves Cousteau photo
Thich Nhat Hanh photo
Jawaharlal Nehru photo

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889–1964) Indian lawyer, statesman, and writer, first Prime Minister of India

As quoted in Building A Life Of Value : Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us (2005) by Jason A. Merchey, p. 74

Coco Chanel photo

“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”

Coco Chanel (1883–1971) French fashion designer

As quoted in The Gospel According to Coco Chanel : Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman (2009) by Karen Karbo

Helen Keller photo

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart”

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.

Sophia Loren photo

“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”

Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress

As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.

Louisa May Alcott photo

“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Variant: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Dr. Seuss photo
Tupac Shakur photo

“Elegance is the only beauty that never fades”

Source: https://totalgirlboss.com/cassea-swim/

Marie Curie photo

“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”

Marie Curie (1867–1934) French-Polish physicist and chemist

Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 162

Frank Lloyd Wright photo

“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

As quoted in The Wright Style (1992) by Carla Lind, p. 3

Jenny Han photo

“It's the imperfections that make things beautiful”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Anne Frank photo

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

Source: Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex

Henry Rollins photo
Gianni Agnelli photo

“There is nothing more beautiful than a beautiful woman.”

Gianni Agnelli (1921–2003) Italian businessman

Agnelli: The Rules of the Game, Vanity Fair (1991)

Jack Kerouac photo

“Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.”

Jack Kerouac (1922–1969) American writer

"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995). Sometimes misquoted as "Be in love with your life every minute of it."
Variant: Be in love with your life every detail of it

William Morris photo
Ellen DeGeneres photo

“Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

Virginia Woolf photo
Rachel Carson photo

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.”

Rachel Carson (1907–1964) American marine biologist and conservationist

Source: The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Context: Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) American psychiatrist

As quoted in The Leader's Digest : Timeless Principles for Team and Organization (2003) by Jim Clemmer, p. 84

George Santayana photo
Eleanor Roosevelt photo

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States

Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt without an original source in her writings, for example in the introduction to It Seems to Me : Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001) by Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whisenhunt, p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=UeFWjTMcLZYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false. But archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
Disputed

Anne Frank photo

“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

Galileo Galilei photo

“The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.”

Loose paraphrase of Salviati on Day 3 http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/dialogue3.html: "For when the sun draws up some vapors here, or warms a plant there, it draws these and warms this as if it had nothing else to do. Even in ripening a bunch of grapes, or perhaps just a single grape, it applies itself so effectively that it could not do more even if the goal of all its affairs were just the ripening of this one grape."
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)

Brigitte Bardot photo
Markus Zusak photo

“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Variant: Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
Source: I Am the Messenger

Pablo Neruda photo

“The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Debajo de tu piel vive la luna.
Oda a la Bella Desnuda (Ode to a Beautiful Nude), from Nuevas Odas Elementales (1956), trans. Nathaniel Tarn in Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda [Houghton Mifflin, 1990, ISBN 0-395-54418-1] (p. 349).

Eleanor Roosevelt photo
Langston Hughes photo
Friedrich Nietzsche photo

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Virginia Woolf photo
Jimmy Carter photo
Franz Kafka photo
Edith Sitwell photo
Rainer Maria Rilke photo

“If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.”

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer

Source: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God

John Ruskin photo
John Muir photo

“Going to the mountains is going home.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

"In the Sierra Forests", San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 3 of the 11 part series "Summering in the Sierra") dated July 1875, published 3 August 1875; reprinted in John Muir: Summering in the Sierra, edited by Robert Engberg (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984) page 79
1870s
Variant: Going to the woods is going home.

Maya Angelou photo
Scott Westerfeld photo

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

Variant: Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
Source: Uglies

John Maeda photo

“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”

John Maeda (1966) American artist and computer scientist

Source: The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life

Oscar Wilde photo
Sigmund Freud photo

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Isaac Newton photo

“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”

Isaac Newton (1643–1727) British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern classical physics
Marcus Aurelius photo
Sam Levenson photo
Frank Lloyd Wright photo

“I believe in God, only I spell it "Nature."”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

As quoted in Quote magazine (14 August 1966)
Source: Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture

Eleanor Roosevelt photo

“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
John Lennon photo

“There are no problems, only solutions.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

"Watching the Wheels"
Lyrics, Double Fantasy (1980)

Henry David Thoreau photo
Paramahansa Yogananda photo
Joseph Campbell photo

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.”

Joseph Campbell (1904–1987) American mythologist, writer and lecturer

Variant: The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living

Arnold Schoenberg photo

“…if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.”

from New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea (1946); as quoted in Style and Idea (1985), p. 124
1940s

Amit Ray photo

“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”

Amit Ray (1960) Indian author

Meditation:Insights and Inspirations (2010) https://books.google.com/books?id=s2ctBgAAQBAJ,

Lois McMaster Bujold photo

“We see the world not as it is, but as we are.”

Dag Redwing hickory Bluefield

Passage (Vol. III in Tetralogy) (2008), p. 163
The Sharing Knife, Passage (Vol. III in Tetralogy) (2008)

“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

"Wild Geese"
Dream Work (1986)
Context: You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

G. K. Chesterton photo

“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.”

"A Defence of Heraldry"
The Defendant (1901)
Context: There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.

Florbela Espanca photo

“To live is to not know that one is living”

Florbela Espanca (1894–1930) Portuguese poet

Diary (20 April, 1930), quoted in Afinado desconcerto (2002), p. 262
Context: Sometimes I start looking at the mirror and examining myself, feature by feature: eyes, mouth, shape of the forehead, eyelids curve, the face line... And this vulgar and hideous-looking, grotesque and miserable amalgam, would it know how to do verses? Oh, no! There is something else … but what? After all, why think? To live is to not know that one is living... Why don't I forget that I am living... to live?

Eleanor Roosevelt photo

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ”

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
Laozi photo

“Nature does not hurry yet it accomplishes everything.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
Blaise Pascal photo

“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”

Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Christian philosopher

“There Is Nothing More Beautiful Than Someone Who Goes Out Of Their Way To Make Life Beautiful For Others”

Alireza Kohany (1993) Musician, Actor, Entrepreneur

Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Business_In_Simple_Language/aiXfDwAAQBAJ

Diana Gabaldon photo
Anne Morrow Lindbergh photo

“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few.”

Variant: One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can only collect a few. One moon shell is more impressive than three. There is only one moon in the sky.
Source: Gift from the Sea (1955), p. 114