Each and every one of us is born possessing great beauty. All our lives we have exhibited beauty, whether we believe in this or not, through our smiles, our laughter, our tears, our compassion. Our inner beauty shines and serves as a guide in measuring beauty in others. Superficial imperfections become irrelevant as we discover that our ideas about what beauty is has changed; the concept that beauty is something merely external, an unattainable perfection to be admired and chased, becomes a foreign idea. The way we tend to those in need, a kind word given to someone feeling down, a smile shared with a stranger, a hand to hold when life gets to be too much…this is what true beauty, and each of us possesses all this and more.
Things are beautiful if you love them.
—Jean Anouilh
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.
—T. S. Eliot
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful. We must carry it with us or we will not find it.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Light, God’s eldest daughter, is a principal beauty...
—Thomas Fuller
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
—Anne Frank
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is in the light of the heart.
—Kahlil Gibran
To love beauty is to see light.
—Victor Hugo
You shine like stars in the universe.
—Philippians 2:15 NIV Bible
Let the beauty you love be what you do. There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.
—Rumi
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