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

“He had been through a good deal in the course of the Great Quest — he had seen beautiful things and horrible things — but up until now he had not known that one and the same creature can be both, that beauty can be terrifying.”

Michael Ende book The Neverending Story

“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion… open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.”

Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient

“You can only possess beauty through understanding it.”

John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic

“When God’s power shines through us, it manifests as truth, auspiciousness and beauty. When God manifests through the intellect, truth shines forth. When God manifests through actions, it does so as goodness and auspiciousness. And when God manifests through the heart, beauty is the result. When truth, auspiciousness and beauty blend in our life, true strength awakens.”

Mata Amritanandamayi (1953) Hindu spiritual leader and guru

“Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love”

Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali polymath

“you show me
The world as it could be
Through your kaleidoscope
It's beautiful”

Kate Havnevik (1975) Norwegian singer-songwriter

“Beauty provokes harassment, the law says, but it looks through men's eyes when deciding what provokes it.”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

“your eyes… they're beautiful. you're beautiful."

*sigh*”

Richelle Mead Bloodlines

“Only through Beauty's morning gate, dost thou enter the land of Knowledge.”

Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright