B Quotes
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“Beauty can be born out of not only love, but also pain and other motivations.”
Source: Proceed With Awesome: A Poetic Voyage
“Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane: it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring chilling.”
Source: Beauty
“Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it.”
Source: Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
“Beauty can be found in the most frightening of places. You just have to be open to the possibility that in truth, there's nothing to fear.”
“Beauty can be quite boring, especially if you're talking about beauty that doesn't last. And what lasts is exactly the thing that maybe wasn't pretty at first. It comes over time to be beautiful or interesting or exciting.”
“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.”
“Beauty can be seen in all things.”
“Beauty can be wearing out easily, like glitzy pants, slowly waning through the tiredness of age, the fickleness of neglect, the boredom of habit, or the revenge of poor treatment. ("Absence of beauty was like hell")”
“Beauty can come from the strangest of places, even the most disgusting of places.”
“Beauty can come in strange forms.”
“Beauty can evolve out of crap.”
“Beauty can get a woman what she wants: love and money. But when beauty leaves you, so can the things it brought.”
“Beauty can inspire miracles.”
Source: The Young Duke ... By B. Disraeli. A New Edition
“Beauty can make a woman rich, but if she relies solely on her looks to get by, she'll always remain under a man's thumb.”
“Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.”
“Beauty can never really understand itself.”
Source: Maxims and Reflections
“Beauty can only be best described at its origin through a befuddling silence, the kind that leaves one almost on the verge of a pleasurable death, just because one chooses beauty over life. There is nothing in this world to hold something so pure, so divine except a loving heart. And it is the only manner through which love recognises love; the language of love has no alphabet, no words.”
Source: Truly, Madly, Deeply!: Memoirs of a Broken Heart's First Love!
“Beauty can only fight the truth for so long.”
“Beauty can only really be measured in relation to The Eternal”
“Beauty can save the world
When people encounter the beauty of nature - mountains, rivers, vegetation - they will be able to refrain from the ugly things they do or the cheap personality they inculcate within. Once they see this beauty, they will turn generous and helpful”
Source: A girl, a stolen camera and a borrowed bike : The tale of a journey
“Beauty can sometimes be pretty awful if you ask me.”
Source: Nova's Quest for the Enchanted Chalice
“Beauty can transform the fragments of a lost heart into poetry, reconstruct it spiritually, and reimagine brokenness into a new reality. Just as in Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing pottery by embracing its breaks rather than attempting to conceal them, we celebrate its history and acclaim its imperfections. (“Absence of Beauty is like Hell“)”
“Beauty cannot be defined by abscissas and ordinates; neither are circles and ellipses created by their geometrical formulas.”
Source: On War
“Beauty cannot be recognized with a cursory glance.”
“Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.”
“Beauty cannot possibly be youth alone:
that is like earth stopping at autumn and saying
that is enough.
—I want to see all of you”
Source: The Moon and Her Sisters
“Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.”
“Beauty captures the eye, behavior captures the soul.”
Source: Amantes Assemble: 100 Sonnets of Servant Sultans
“Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy.”
“Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places.”
“Beauty comes from embracing who you are.”
Source: Princess for Hire
“Beauty comes from tenderness.”
Source: Everyone Is Beautiful: A Novel
“Beauty comes from the happiness within.”
“Beauty comes from the inside.”
“Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.”
“Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.”
“Beauty comes in all ages, colors, shapes, and forms. God never makes junk.”
“Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes. Our goal should be health and stamina.”
“Beauty comes in many forms-and there is no form more beautiful than you. Just exactly as you are, this minute, right now, without changing a thing...you are beautiful. Beautiful enough to take God's breath away. You do believe this, don't you? Oh, you must. You must. How can I believe in my beauty if you don't believe in yours?”
“Beauty comes naturally, but it's hard to be stunning by accident.”
Source: Every Day
“Beauty comes when fashion succeeds”
“Beauty comes, we scarce know how, as an emanation from sources deeper than itself.”
Source: Studies in Poetry and Philosophy
“Beauty commonly produces love, but cleanliness preserves it. Age itself is not unamiable while it is preserved clean and unsullied; like a piece of metal constantly kept smooth and bright, we look on it with more pleasure than on a new vessel cankered with rust.”
Source: The spectator
“Beauty compelled admiration and erotic yearning; such was its organic function. But never by itself could it command love.”
“Beauty compels us; reason merely cajoles.”
“Beauty connotes humanity. We call a natural object beautiful because we see that its form expresses fitness, the perfect fulfillment of function.”
“Beauty consists of its own passing, just as we reach for it. It’s the ephemeral configuration of things in the moment, when you see both their beauty and their death. ...Does this mean that this is how we must live our lives? Constantly poised between beauty and death, between movement and its disappearance? Maybe that’s what being alive is all about: so we can track down those moments that are dying.”
“Beauty contained is what makes a heart truly beautiful.”
“Beauty conveys truth, but not the way we thought. Aesthetic significance does not deliver truth about the human condition in general: it delivers truth about the condition of a particular human, the artist.”
Source: The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
“Beauty crowds me till I die.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)