“The irony of those who are willing to do plastic surgery, facelifts or whatever just to look beautiful. Many of them forget the fact that beauty is not fully reflected in what other people see.”

— Titon Rahmawan

Last update Nov. 30, 2023. History

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“Life is neither beautiful nor ugly, it’s just whatever you make of it. Either ways life is a reflection of who you really are.”

“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

“She is beautiful in a way that makes people forget what they were going to say when they look at her.”

Emily St. John Mandel book Station Eleven

Source: Station Eleven (2014), Chapter 15 (p. 91)

“The collectivity is divided into two classes of people: those who, by virtue of their ownership of the means of doing, command others to do, and those who, by virtue of the fact that they are deprived of access to the means of doing, do what the others tell them to do.”

John Holloway book Change the World Without Taking Power

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“Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882–1927) Indian Sufi

“Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing”

Camille Pissarro (1830–1903) French painter

“I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery.”

Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American comedian, actress, and television host

As quoted in On Being Blonde (2004), by P. Munier, p. 84

“I know a girl who just looks at her face in the medicine cabinet mirror and never looks below her shoulders, and she's four or five hundred pounds but she doesn't see all that, she just sees a beautiful face and therefore she thinks she's a beauty. And therefore, I think she's a beauty, too, because I usually accept people on the basis of their self-images, because their self-images have more to do with the way they think than their objective-images do.”

Andy Warhol (1928–1987) American artist

Source: 1975, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975), Ch. 4: Beauty

“With Lenin it was always a substantial commitment. I always have a certain admiration for people who are aware that somebody has to do the job. What I hate about these liberal, pseudo-left, beautiful soul academics is that they are doing what they are doing fully aware that somebody else will do the job for them.”

Slavoj Žižek (1949) Slovene philosopher

Conversations with Žižek by Slavoj Žižek and Glyn Daly (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2004), p. 50

“The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty; he is conscious of the fact that the emotion of beauty is cosmic, universal. This conscious recognition has for its corollary an abstract plasticism, for man adheres only to what is universal.”

Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) Peintre Néerlandais

1910's, Natural Reality and Abstract Reality', 1919

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