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“Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.”

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Author:Pablo Casals

“Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.”

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Author:David Hockney

“For me the Koenigsberg longshoremen had beauty; the Polish jimkes on their grain ships had beauty; the broad freedom of movement in the gestures of the common people had beauty. Middle-class people held no appeal for me at all.”

People Common Beauty Class Middle Movement Ships Appeals Middle Class Broads Gestures Grain Polish

Book:The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

Source: The diary and letters of Kaethe Kollwitz

“If enough people think of a thing and work hard enough at it, I guess it's pretty nearly bound to happen, wind and weather permitting.”

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Book:By the Shores of Silver Lake

Source: By the Shores of Silver Lake

“He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.”

People Beauty Doubt Ran No Doubt Immoral Health Beauty

Author:John Galsworthy

“Doubtless almost any intense emotion may open our 'inward eye' to the beauty of reality. Falling in love appears to do it for some people. The beauties of nature or the exhilaration of artistic creation does it for others. Probably any high experience may momentarily stretch our souls up on tiptoe, so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous beauty which is always there, but which we are not often tall enough to perceive.”

“I would like to say to people, open your eyes and find beauty where you normally don't expect it.”

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Author:Jean Paul Gaultier

“It isn't necessarily the great and famous beauty spots we fall in love with. As with people, so with places. Love is unforeseen, and we can all find ourselves affectionately attached to the minor and the less obvious.”

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Book:The Informed Air: Essays

Source: The Informed Air: Essays

“For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant-and therefore beautiful. A tree has significance if one sees it against the empty face of sky. A note in music gains significance from the silences on either side. A candle flowers in the space of night. Even small and casual things take on significance if they are washed in space, like a few autumn grasses in one corner of an Oriental painting, the rest of the page bare.”

“Who has not experienced how, on near acquaintance, plainness becomes beautified, and beauty loses its charm, exactly according to the quality of the heart and mind? And from this cause am I of opinion that the want of outward beauty never disquiets a noble nature or will be regarded as a misfortune. It never can prevent people from being amiable and beloved in the highest degree.”

Source: New Sketches of Every-day Life: A Diary. Together with Strife and Peace

“I thought how sadly beauty of inscape was unknown and buried away from simple people and yet how near at hand it was if they had eyes to see it and it could be called out everywhere again.”

People Ifs Hands Eye Nature Simple Beauty Buried Nature Beauty

Book:Poems and prose

Source: Poems and prose

“Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest.”

People Beautiful Beauty Forgiven Beautiful People

Author:Mason Cooley

“Nonmathematical people sometimes ask me, “You know math, huh? Tell me something I’ve always wondered, What is infinity divided by infinity?” I can only reply, “The words you just uttered do not make sense. That was not a mathematical sentence. You spoke of ‘infinity’ as if it were a number. It’s not. You may as well ask, 'What is truth divided by beauty?’ I have no clue. I only know how to divide numbers. ‘Infinity,’ ‘truth,’ ‘beauty’—those are not numbers.”

Source: Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

“Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.”

People Stills Age Forget Beauty Ridiculous Old Age Looking Good Old People

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“All your seriousness is about sandcastles. And you yourself will leave them one day, trampling them down, and you will not look back. The people who take it seriously miss the beauty of playfulness.”

People Looks Beauty Missing One Day Down And Seriousness Playfulness Sandcastles

Author:Rajneesh

“If your inner being changes, your whole outer life will be totally different. It will have a different fragrance, a different beauty, a different grace. And when your inner being is changed and becomes a flame of light, you will become a light unto others too. You will become a beckoning light, a great herald of a new dawn. Your very presence will trigger revolutions in other people's lives.”

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Author:Rajneesh

“throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.”

People Humans Body Names Beauty Human History

Author:Nancy Etcoff

“People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.”

“How was it that destruction could be so beautiful? Was there something in the scale of it? Was there some shadow in people, lusting for it? Or was it just a coincidental combination of the elements, the final proof that beauty has no moral dimension?”

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Book:Red Mars

Source: Red Mars

“People give up the earth for beauty.”

People Giving Earth Beauty Giving Up

Author:Esther M. Friesner

“All over the land are vast and handsome pastures, with good grass for cattle, and it strikes me the soil would be very fertile were the country inhabited and improved by reasonable people.”

People Country Would Be Beauty Land Strikes Grass Soil Reasonable Handsome Cattle Fertile Pastures

Book:The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative

Source: The journey of Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca: trans. from his own narrative

“People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“I know that people think I'm sexy and I am looked at as that. It is cool with me. It's wonderful to have sexy appeal. If you embrace it, it can be a very beautiful thing.”

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Author:Aaliyah

“I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.”

People Thinking Art Important Country Government Young Beauty Art Education Universal Education

Author:Mikhail Baryshnikov

“When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.”

People Use Beauty Listening Internet Musical Site Listening To Music Checking Out

Author:Liz Phair

“I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!”

People Problem Pain Beautiful Speak Beauty Painting Horror

Book:Picasso on art: a selection of views

Source: Picasso on art: a selection of views

“One of the things that people don't realize is that that natural beauty, those recreational forests, they have an economic development impact for the state as well.”

People Wells States Realizing Natural Beauty Economic Development Impact Forests Economic Development

Author:Ed Rendell

“Man's naked form belongs to no particular moment in history; it is eternal, and can be looked upon with joy by the people of all ages.”

People Men Moments Age Form Joy Beauty Particular Eternal Naked

Author:Auguste Rodin

“I thought it might be a good move to get into a beauty contest so I tried for Miss Pennsylvania and won. I think that helped me get noticed, at least by the people of Pennsylvania.”

People Thinking Might Moving Beauty Missing Contests Pennsylvania Beauty Contest

Author:Sharon Stone

“I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.”

People Looks Beauty Swans Swan Lake

Author:Rufus Wainwright

“People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.”

People Today Beauty Too Much Ugly

Author:Vivienne Westwood

“I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work.”

People Way Wells Used Turns Work Beauty Smart Attractive Being Smart Being Myself

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”

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Author:Markus Zusak

“I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.”

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Author:Margaret Cho

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”

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Author:Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”

People Want Beauty Color Taste Towns Ridiculous Cereal

Book:Paper Towns

Source: Paper Towns

“No one lights a lamp in order to hide it behind the door: the purpose of light is to create more light, to open people's eyes, to reveal the marvels around.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“But if it ever occurs to people to value the honor of the mind equally with the honor of the body, we shall get a social revolution of a quite unparalleled sort — and very different from the kind that is being made at the moment.”

People Ifs Mind Body Values Social Beauty Revolution Honour Norm Social Revolution

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“What was beauty unless you intended to use it, like a hammer, or a key? It was just something for other people to use and admire, or envy, despise. To nail their dreams onto like a picture hanger on a blank wall. And so many girls saying, use me, dream me.”

People Use Dream Girl Beauty Wall Keys Envy Admire Despise Blank Nails Hammers Using Me Hangers

Book:White Oleander

Source: White Oleander

“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.”

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Author:Ernest Hemingway

“Girls of all kinds can be beautiful - from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned; the quirky, clumsy, shy, outgoing and all in between. It's not easy though because many people still put beauty into a confining, narrow box...Think outside of the box...Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you.”

“I'm pretty comfortable with my body. I'm imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once.”

“One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body. I got tired of hating myself.”

People Matter Body Hate Beauty One Day No Matter What Tired Body Image Beautiful Body Body Confidence

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“How people interpret my degrees of sexiness is out of my hands.”

People Hands Beauty Degrees Sexiness

Author:Seth Green

“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

“Somebody who talks about how much they're eating and counts calories is unattractive to me. And when you limit yourself in the things you eat, it affects your mood. I've seen people who are a nightmare to be around because they're not eating. That's why I always have an apple in my purse or a Luna Bar in the glove box in case I get stuck in traffic - I don't even want to be alone in the car with myself if I'm hungry!”

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Author:Nina Dobrev

“'Handsome' means many things to many people. If people consider me handsome, I feel flattered - and have my parents to thank for it. Realistically, it doesn't hurt to be good-looking, especially in this business.”

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Author:Richard Chamberlain

“The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.”

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Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“I wrote "Bootylicious" because, at the time, I’d gained some weight and the pressure that people put you under, the pressure to be thin, is unbelievable. I was just 18 and you shouldn’t be thinking about that. You should be thinking about building up your character and having fun and the song was just telling everyone just forget what people are saying. You’re bootylicious. That’s all. It’s a celebration of curves and a celebration of women’s bodies.”