Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

What was it about us, as humans, that drove us to make apologies for beautiful things?

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

For you need imagination to form a notion of beauty at all, and still more to discover your ideal in an unfamiliar shape.

Beauty exists, even in unlikely places. The key isn’t to open your eyes but to open your heart.

There’s looking and there’s looking. When some men look at you it’s a greasy thing. It makes you want to have a bath. With other men it’s nice. It helps you know you’re beautiful.

When things are beautiful on the surface it is hard to imagine that dying is appropriate for them.

In a sense, beauty is what one chooses to feel by virtue of what one chooses to imitate and to create.

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

The full moon, well risen in a cloudless eastern sky, covered the high solitude with its light. We are not conscious of daylight as that which displaces darkness. Daylight, even when the sun is clear...

I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.

An ugly baby is a very nasty object – and the prettiest is frightful.

You, my reader, who see me close, wonder about my heartbeats and measure my words, you my close friend who know my eyes and the home of their prose, you, my only lover, who always...

The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

A woman is not beautiful when her ankle or arm wins compliments, but when her total appearance diverts admiration from the individual parts of her body.

I will listen to a beautiful person much more quickly than a plain person, and I have to learn to be nice to people who are not attractive looking.

We cannot approach beauty. Its nature is like opaline doves’-neck lustres, hovering and evanescent. Herein it resembles the most excellent things, which all have this rainbow character, defying all attempts at appropriation and use.

There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, “completes what nature left unfinished.

Everything that God sends us is beautiful, even though we may not understand it – and we only need to give it some proper thought to see that what God gives is just sheer happiness;...

By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful!

If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,And Spring came the day after tomorrow,I would die peacefully, because it came the day after tomorrow.If that’s its time, when else should it come?I like it...

There are some beloved women whose eyes, by a chance blend of brilliancy and shape, affect us not directly, not at the moment of shy perception, but in a delayed and cumulative burst of light...

It’s success, which makes you beautiful.

When you judge a woman by her appearance, it doesn’t define her, it defines you. Ladies, never allow yourself to be defined by someone’s inability to appreciate your unique beauty.

A more wonderful life and a more beautiful world is one thought away.

The interplay of the aesthetic with the erotic is complex. The peacock’s tail is beautiful to us, sexy to the peahen. Beauty and sexual attractiveness overlap, coincide. They may be deeply related. I think they...

To move forward, simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest will happen, as a beautiful and effortless journey of cooperation and listening.

Ah, and then her beautiful face…actually, the level and angle that she was holding the umbrella, the whole time as she passed within Suresh’s view, only allowed him to see the bottom of her chin...

And if you can’t see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer. Stare a little longer. Because there’s something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told...

In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness.

At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would...

Yoga means addition – addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.

Art indeed may not change anything, and yet on some very basic level, life is insupportable without it.

The consideration of the quantity often takes the precedence over that of the quality in many significant activity of the society as the ordinary minds are in the great majority and the extraordinary brains are...

Beauty is when the beauty within reflects exactly on the outside.

Beauty is a matter of finding the right address.

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

Today may be your last chance to be you, someone you forgot to completely immerse yourself in because you were too worried about the details. The details that, no matter how many times you thought...

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means....

But loving let’s you look, and look, and look again. You notice the back of a hand, the turn of a head, the way of a walk.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Be grateful having that woman in your life. Accept her weaknesses and love her sincerely because that’s her beauty beyond the imperfections.

But what we have here is not a nice girl, as generally understood. For one thing, she’s not beautiful. There’s a certain set to the jaw and arch to the nose that might, with a...

You never know who you’re inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think.

Good character is Beauty

WE ARE the creators of the seeds that we have planted in the past — whether they were happiness, comfort, abundance, prosperity, family, children, ideas, or even thoughts — that are giving birth into our...

A song that wrenches the heart finds a knowing ear and a liking heart.

Kindess is a mirror which reflects the beauty of the heart.

Elegance is refusal.