Quotes about beauty

„You're a shooting star I see
A vision of ecstasy
When you hold me, I'm alive
We're like diamonds in the sky
At first sight I felt the energy of sun rays
I saw the life inside your eyes

So shine bright, tonight you and I
We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky
Eye to eye, so alive
We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky

Shine bright like a diamond
Shine bright like a diamond
Shining bright like a diamond
We're beautiful like diamonds in the sky“

—  Sia (musician) Australian singer 1975

Diamonds, Unapologetic (2012). Cowritten with Benjamin Levin, Mikkel Eriksen and Tor Hermansen.
Songs

„The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain“

—  Padre Pio Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic 1887 - 1968

„The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrifice, and with extreme effort.“

—  Padre Pio Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic 1887 - 1968

„Beauty is seen through the eyes, but beautiful people are only known through their heart.“

—  RJ Intindola (Gandolfo)

1979

„Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.“

—  Marcus Aurelius, book Meditations

Source: Meditations

„I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.“

—  Coco Chanel French fashion designer 1883 - 1971

As quoted in Chanel (1987) by Jean Leymarie
Context: Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.

„We cannot, after all, judge a biography by its length, by the number of pages in it; we must judge by the richness of the contents… Sometimes the 'unfinisheds' are among the most beautiful symphonies.“

—  Viktor E. Frankl, book The Doctor and the Soul

Source: The Doctor and the Soul

„Anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you. Dirty you so bad you couldn't like yourself anymore. And though she and others lived through and got over it, she could never let it happen to her own. The best things she was, was her children. Whites might dirty her all right, but not her best thing, her beautiful, magical best thing — the part of her that was clean.“

—  Toni Morrison, book Beloved

Source: Beloved (1987), Ch. 26

„All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.“

—  Edward Abbey American author and essayist 1927 - 1989

“Fire Lookout: Numa Ridge”, p. 57
The Journey Home (1977)
Source: The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

„When, in our civilized Europe, we would find a trace of the native beauty of man, we must go seek it in the nations where economic prejudices have not yet uprooted the hatred of work. … The Greeks in their era of greatness had only contempt for work: their slaves alone were permitted to labor: the free man knew only exercises for the body and mind. … The philosophers of antiquity taught contempt for work, that degradation of the free man, the poets sang of idleness, that gift from the Gods.“

—  Paul Lafargue French politician 1842 - 1911

The Right to Be Lazy (1883), H. Kerr, trans. (1907), pp. 11-12

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

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

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

„There are more useful systems developed in languages deemed awful than in languages praised for being beautiful--many more.“

—  Bjarne Stroustrup Danish computer scientist, creator of C++ 1950

The Problem with Programming (Interview with Bjarne Stroustrup), MIT Technology Review, November 28, 2006, Jason Pontin, 2007-11-15 http://technologyreview.com/Infotech/17831/page3/,

„Your beautiful don't let anyone tell you different“

—  Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969

„Women are beautiful in the light of the day, but are even more so in the shadows of the night.“

—  Andrzej Majewski Polish writer and photographer 1966

Aphorisms. Magnum in Parvo (2000)

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

—  Gianni Agnelli Italian businessman 1921 - 2003

„Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.“

—  Rainer Maria Rilke Austrian poet and writer 1875 - 1926

from poem Go to the Limits of Your Longing.

Appears in movie Jojo Rabbit.
Variant: Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is final

„Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.“

—  Louisa May Alcott, book Little Women

Source: Little Women

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

—  Louisa May Alcott American novelist 1832 - 1888

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

„Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.“

—  Louisa May Alcott, book Little Women

Source: Little Women