Quotes About Own Beauty

#1. Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride; that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself; for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn?

Comte De Lautreamont

#2. A necklace of pearls on a white neck.
We had lost the sense of discovery which had infused the anarchy of our first year. I began to settle down.
... the old house in the foreground, the rest of the world abandoned and forgotten; a world of its own of peace and love and beauty ...

Evelyn Waugh

#3. Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly lies to the bone. Beauty dies and fades away, but ugly holds its own! Create and cultivate Inner Beauty that never fades away but grows and matures with Time!

Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate

#4. I love, I love beauty
and in it I worship my follies,
the ones I found on my own,
and the ones to which I was led

Adonis

#5. What's underneath is everything. But that doesn't mean you can't enhance it. Beauty has its own kind of magic. And the appearance of something can have power too

Danielle Paige

#6. Be a mirror of life. Let everyone see their own astonishing beauty in your mirror.

Debasish Mridha

#7. It's not that he doesn't appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean, if a poet sees a daffodil he stares at it and writes a long poem about it, but Twoflower wanders off to find a book on botany.

Terry Pratchett

#8. If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign tous: What must be the effects of moral beauty? And what influence must it have, when it embellishes our own mind, and is the result of our own reflection and industry?

David Hume

#9. The first recognition of beauty was one of the most significant events in the evolution of human conciousness ... seeing beauty in a flower could awaken humans, however briefly, to the beauty that is an essential part of their own innermost being, their true nature.

Eckhart Tolle

#10. I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Angelina Jolie

#11. We cannot dim another person's light without first extinguishing our own.

Alaric Hutchinson

#12. To own beauty is the first lie of it.

Chris Campanioni

#13. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Why do you worry?

Rumi

#14. Rediscovering our own miraculousness is the most important, valuable, world-peacing, beauty-spreading, kind, and generous thing we can do.

Kelly Corbet

#15. But human withdrawal is a very painful and lonely process, because it forces us to face directly our own condition in all its beauty as well as misery.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#16. The beauty of the Catholic church is that it has a sacramental structure that can hold its own with the best out of any tradition. It has a mystical system and content that can hold its own with the best out of Tibet ... its an amazing tradition, but I think you need to be critical.

John O'Donohue

#17. Everyone has their own insecurities, regardless of how you look or how people perceive you, but sometimes people give their insecurities too much power. Defining beauty is simply a matter of opinion. For me, real beauty has very little to do with the structure of someone's face or body.

Devon Aoki

#18. Humankind demonstrates an unerring ability to witness beauty. By observing nature's beauty and striving to create beautiful things, humankind brokers its own salvation.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#19. He, the man, had seen her, touched her, and had not validated her beauty, her womanliness. He had turned away and gone to his own bed. Like Eve after the fall, her nakedness was obscene to her now.

Naomi Ragen

#20. The sense of his own beauty came on him like a revelation. He had never felt it before. Basil Hallward's compliments

Oscar Wilde

#21. Many a beauty in her own room behaves repulsively till one splits one's sides.

Witold Gombrowicz

#22. I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.

Saadat Hasan Manto

#23. The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return.

George Eliot

#24. The nondual universe of One Taste arises as a spontaneous gesture of your own true nature.

Ken Wilber

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

Ellen DeGeneres

#26. We are curious creatures, we Taiwanese. Orphans. Eventually, orphans must choose their own names and write their own stories. The beauty of orphanhood is the blank slate.

Shawna Yang Ryan

#27. ...it is not news that we live in a world
Where beauty is unexplainable
And suddenly ruined
And has its own routines. We are often far
From home in a dark town, and our griefs
Are difficult to translate into a language
Understood by others.

Charlie Smith

#28. When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this country are truly functional, Australia will be as beautiful in its own way as classical Greece.

Robin Boyd

#29. For true beauty - beauty, as it were, with a capital B - is terrifying; it puts us in our place; it reflects back to us our own ugliness. It is the prize beyond price.

Rick Yancey

#30. As we open our hearts to others, we begin to discover the truth of our own inner beauty, inner strength and inner light.

Susan Jeffers

#31. Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total beauty, even for a moment, it is enough

Jeanette Winterson

#32. Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.

Gwyneth Paltrow

#33. Beauty is a possession not our own.

Bion Of Smyrna

#34. She blushed. It is a beautiful thing when a woman blushes; at that instant her body no longer belongs to her; she doesn't control it; she is at its mercy; oh, can there be anything more beautiful than the sight of a woman violated by her own body!

Milan Kundera

#35. I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.

Brian Lindstrom

#36. May I see the beauty in others without denigrating my own.

Kimber Simpkins

#37. His own image; no longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan. To be born in a duck's nest, in a farmyard, is of no consequence to a bird, if it is hatched from a swan's egg.

Hans Christian Andersen

#38. I think that it's when we step out of the road, step outside the box, become our own person, and we walk fearlessly down paths other people wouldn't look at, that true progress comes. And sometimes true beauty as well.

John McAfee

#39. The dark in soul see in the universe their own shadow; the shattered spirit can only reflect external beauty in form as untrue and broken as itself.

Thomas Binney

#40. Biblically, tenderness is what follows when someone reveals to you your own inner beauty, when you discover your belovedness, when you experience that you are deeply and sincerely liked by someone.

Brennan Manning

#41. The work of intimacy, of course, is to learn to both show your own illumination, and to see it in a way that the physical eyes cannot reveal. In a way that only the heart can reveal: the illumined beauty in another person.

Marianne Williamson

#42. And a flower, doesn't even know it's own beauty it's entire life. Sad, huh?

Miyavi

#43. We are called to assist the Earth to heal her wounds and in the process heal our own-indeed, to embrace the whole creation in all it's diversity, beauty, and wonder.

Jeanette Winter

#44. Persons are oftentimes misled in regard to their choice of dress by attending to the beauty of colors, rather than selecting such colors as may increase their own beauty.

William Shenstone

#45. Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

Alice Walker

#46. The Warrior of the Light concentrates on the small miracles of daily life. He is capable of seeing what is beautiful because he carries beauty within himself, for the world is a mirror and gives back to each man the reflection of his own face.

Paulo Coelho

#47. Artists are always searching for beauty - and when they find it and fashion it in their own unique way - it does not seem too important to analyze how it came about.

John Kurtz

#48. Beauty is an ultimate value - something that we pursue for its own sake, and for the pursuit of which no further reason need be given. Beauty should therefore be compared to truth and goodness, one member of a trio of ultimate values which justify our rational inclinations.

Roger Scruton

#49. The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.

Benjamin N. Cardozo

#50. I use beauty as a way of helping people to receive difficult or upsetting ideas. The topical issues are merely a vehicle for making one aware of one's own perceptual shift-which is the real thrill.

Fred Wilson

#51. Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does not come from truth to your own knowledge of things; and keep on working, even if your work is not long remembered.

William Dean Howells

#52. Ugliness has its own splendor when it houses a soul of beauty.

James L. Farmer Jr.

#53. Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.

Ali MacGraw

#54. The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters the way you hear everything from that point on.

JC Chasez

#55. Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.

Rabindranath Tagore

#56. There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation of the beautiful, more especially than for our own, had been set in order by God the great landscape-garden of the whole earth.

Edgar Allan Poe

#57. We each bring our own unique beauty to the world, and how blessed we are to have the freedom to find that beauty in each other.

Heather K. O'Hara

#58. That's the beauty of the cure. No one mentions those lost, hot days in the field, when Thomas kissed Rachel's tears away and invented worlds just so he could promise them to her, when she tore the skin off her own arm at the thought of living without him.

Lauren Oliver

#59. How could servants create such beauty and still be considered inferior? They are capable of wonders different from our own.

Victoria Aveyard

#60. God, if I worship Thee in fear of hell, burn me in hell. And if I worship Thee in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise; but if I worship Thee for Thine own sake, withhold not Thine everlasting Beauty.

Aldous Huxley

#61. Take back the beauty and wit you bestow upon me; leave me my own mediocrity of agreeableness and genius, but leave me also my sincerity, my constancy, and my plain dealing; 'Tis all I have to recommend me to the esteem either of others or myself.

Mary Wortley Montagu

#62. You think of beauty only as a blessing, Majesty, but it brings its own punishments.

Erika Johansen

#63. I have two definitions for the word "magick." The first is knowing that I can effect change through my own will, even behind these bars; and the other meaning is more experiential - seeing beauty for a moment in the midst of the mundane.

Damien Echols

#64. Bread and beauty grow best together. Their harmonious integration can make farming not only a business but an art; the land not only a food-factory but an instrument for self-expression, on which each can play music to his own choosing.

Aldo Leopold

#65. Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

Martha Beck

#66. Sometimes, homely things are done for the best reasons in the world and thus achieve a beauty of their own.

Gene Weingarten

#67. But even the moment when the leaves fall from their boughs - even that moment - has a beauty to it. A glory of its own.

Renee Ahdieh

#68. Adele's look is meticulously thought through and completely of her own traits. She has such a powerful beauty, such an emotional voice, and the kohl, the hair, everything feels organically molded to her personality.

Xavier Dolan

#69. Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

Lena Headey

#70. Well, for one thing," she said, "her knowledge of punctuation begins and ends with her own beauty mark.

Melissa Bank

#71. I feel sometimes constrained by the expectation that the work should be solely political. I try to create a type of work that is at the service of my own set of criteria, which have to do with beauty and a type of utopia that in some ways speaks to the culture I'm located in.

Kehinde Wiley

#72. Dear to girls' hearts is their own beauty.

Ovid

#73. Piano keys jangled as he got to his feet. "Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?" "Nobody. I woke up on my own." "Was there anyone with you?

Cassandra Clare

#74. But that's the beauty of boarding school. I make all my own decisions, small and medium, while the big ones are left up to the Prefect Academy - and as far as boys go, to the only expert I know - Suzanne Santry

Adriana Trigiani

#75. He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.

Paul Klee

#76. Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

Lawrence Hill

#77. An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.

C.S. Lewis

#78. She felt so much aware of her own beauty it seemed inconceivable that everybody else wouldn't notice the difference too.

Anna Godbersen

#79. Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.

Rajneesh

#80. The Moors were beautiful in their own way, and if their beauty was the quiet sort that required time and introspection to be seen, well, there was nothing wrong with that. The best beauty was the sort that took some seeking.

Seanan McGuire

#81. Learn to embrace your own unique beauty, celebrate your unique gifts with confidence. Your imperfections are actually a gift.

Kerry Washington

#82. Tell them dear, that if eyes were made for seeing,
Then beauty is its own excuse for being:
Why thou wert there, O rival of the rose!
I never sought to ask, I never knew:
But, in my simple ignorance suppose
The selfsame power that brought me there brought you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#83. Building a wardrobe is like building a circle of friends your whole life ... Your own beauty is to be yourself, but of course we need tools and accessories.

Diane Von Furstenberg

#84. The only real knowledge is who you really are - a spiritual being created in the image in the likeness of a loving God. If you know that, everything you do will honor the wisdom and beauty you already own.

Alan Cohen

#85. Nothing affects the heart like that which is purely from itself, and of its own nature; such as the beauty of sentiments, the grace of actions, the turn of characters, and the proportions and features of a human mind.

Anthony Ashley Cooper

#86. Writers are given the responsibility of sight. I think that the whole burden, responsibility and beauty of the gift forces us to construct our lives differently so that we are able to become vehicles to transcend, to encompass and articulate not only our own experience but the experiences of others.

Alexis De Veaux

#87. But what does he want my heart for?" the little queen asked.
"He just wants to own it," replied the sea lion. "That is enough. He wants to look on its beauty and know that his hands alone can touch it.

Antonia Michaelis

#88. Most beings only saw the beauty of a smoothed stone and thought nothing of the shape it might once have held or of the ceaseless pressure that formed it. Perhaps that was enough, though, for the rock to bear its own hardship in silence and share only with others what they wanted to see.

Dallas E. Caldwell

#89. Lila can't be a model until she's at least 21. She is already a mini-me - it is scary. She already has her own beauty kit.

Kate Moss

#90. Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance.

John Updike

#91. To reveal someone's beauty is to reveal their value by giving them time, attention, and tenderness. To love is not just to do something for them but to reveal to them their own uniqueness, to tell them that they are special and worthy of attention.

Jean Vanier

#92. She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.

David Foster Wallace

#93. O Allah! If I worship You for fear of Hell, burn me in Hell, and if I worship You in hope of Paradise, exclude me from Paradise. But if I worship You for Your Own sake, grudge me not Your everlasting Beauty

Rabi'ah Al-'Adawiyah

#94. Education is the progressive unfolding of our own beauty with the light of knowledge like the blooming of a flower.

Debasish Mridha

#95. After the feet of beauty fly my own.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#96. Meaning is always a latecomer. Beauty and music seduce us first; later ashamed of our own sensuality, we insist on meaning.

Clive Barker

#97. I loved the sensual pleasures of being outside, the smell of it, the feel of the earth under my fingers, the satisfaction of seeing things living, glowing, captivated by their own temporary beauty.

Jojo Moyes

#98. His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.

Cassandra Clare

#99. The moot question is not that how many persons are of good or not so good character, but who applauds the character truly as the real beauty factor in own and others' lives.

Anuj

#100. There is a time when the soul closes its eyes and kneels before its own divinity; and a time when it rises and looks out in wonder at the beauty of the world.

Heather K. O'Hara