I've long realised that Beauty is my own personal path to God or the realisation of oneness. Luckily, the world is so full of beauty - in people, nature, music, food...and ultimately, ourselves - we only need to open our eyes, ears, mind and heart and let it in! Here are some words of wisdom which have inspired me:
Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself. Coco Chanel
The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Albert Einstein
A thing of beauty is a joy forever. John Keats
Life is beauty admire it! Mother Teresa
Beauty is not caused. It is. Emily Dickinson
The beautiful is that which is desirable in itself. Aristotle
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror. Rabrindanath Tagore
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Albert Einstein
Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats
Nothing is more beautiful than freedom of the body. Coco Chanel
It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit. Socrates
It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden. Socrates
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. Khalil Gibran
Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. Confucius
If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. Vincent van Gogh
Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from The Eternal. Dante Alighieri
Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way. WB Yeats
In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling. Auguste Rodin
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. Michaelangelo
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. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. John Constable
The most beautiful makeup of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy. Yves Saint-Laurent
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. Saint Augustine
Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside. Coco Chanel
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years. Audrey Hepburn
The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. Fyodor Dostoevsky
To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly. Marilyn Monroe
Beauty can inspire miracles. Benjamin Disraeli
I believe in manicures.
I believe in overdressing.
I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck. Audrey Hepburn
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.
Salma Hayek
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
Coco Chanel
I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy. Queen Latifah
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. John Donne
Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford. Cindy Crawford
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. Marie Stopes
Let the beauty we love be what we do. Rumi
Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. Rosalind Russell
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. Brigitte Bardot
Beauty awakens the soul to act. Dante Aligheri
Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love Rabrindanath Tagore
I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within. Christy Turlington
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty. John F Kennedy
I'm very definitely a woman and I enjoy it. Marilyn Monroe
You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king. Theodore Parker
When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Khalil Gibran
Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good. Johann Wolgang von Goethe
In the true mythology, Love is an immortal child, and Beauty leads him as a guide; nor can we express a deeper sense than when we say, Beauty is the pilot of the young soul. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty, without kindness, dies unenjoyed and undelighting. Samuel Johnson
Exuberance is beauty. William Blake
Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest. Christian Dior
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. Ralph Waldon Emerson
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone. Johann Wolgang von Goethe
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. Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance. John Ruskin
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. Franz Kafka
The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. Katherine Anne Porter
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. Anouk Aimee
Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise. Marcus Aurelius
Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all. W Somerset Maugham
It's Hard to Stay Mad When There's So Much Beauty in the World. Kevin Spacey
Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin. Gwyneth Paltrow
As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others.
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. Marianne Williamson
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman. Albert Camus
If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely. Roald Dahl
All little girls should be told they are pretty. Marilyn Monroe
As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. Nelson Mandela
At some point in life, the world's beauty becomes enough. Toni Morrison
It’s hard to stay mad when there’s so much beauty in the world. Sometimes I feel like I’m seeing it all at once, and it’s too much. My heart fills up like a balloon that’s about to burst. And then I remember to relax, and stop trying to hold on to it, and then it flows through me like rain, and I can’t feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life. Ricky Fitts in American Beauty
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. Jawaharlal Nehru
The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. Louisa May Alcott
Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat. Joanne Woodward
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character. Jayne Seymour
What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. Susan Sontag
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful. William Morris
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. Aristotle
Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly. Epicetus
When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out. Christy Turlington
People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much. Vivienne Westwood
The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life. Frank Lloyd Wright
Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. Margaret Mitchell
Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty. Jack Canfield
There's more beauty in truth, even if it is dreadful beauty. John Steinbeck
We were made to enjoy music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets, to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with a rose that is bedecked with dew… Human beings are actually created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful, for the truthful... and all of us are given the task of trying to make this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things. Desmond Tutu
It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me. Stephen Fry
Oh soul, you worry too much. You have seen your own strength. You have seen your own beauty. You have seen your golden wings. Of anything less, why do you worry? You are in truth the soul, of the soul, of the soul. Rumi
Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man. Yoko Ono
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Naomi Wolf
Evermore in the world is this marvellous balance of beauty and disgust, magnificence and rats. Ralph Waldo Emerson
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. Ernest Hemingway
I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be? Goldie Hawn
Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since. Amy Adams
Beauty isn't about looking perfect. It's about celebrating your individuality. Bobbi Brown
I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great. Kate Upton
If you can't love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love somebody else? Ru Paul
You're only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damned red velvet cupcake. Emma Stone
Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty but you can't resist charm. Audrey Tautou
The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. Malcolm Gladwell
Science, freedom, beauty, adventure: what more could you ask of life? Charles Lindbergh
People will stare. Make it worth their while. Harry Winston
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains....My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy! Anne Frank
The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty. Isadora Duncan
Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself. Hubert de Givenchy
God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple. Jean-Claude van Damme
Show me someone not full of herself and I'll show you a hungry person. Nikki Giovanni
I know I'm not exactly a bombshell, but one has to make the best of what one's got. Joan Sutherland
Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness. Henry David Thoreau
Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind. Socrates
By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself. Rumi
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful. F Scott Fitzgerald
When you possess light within, you see it externally. Anais Nin
A woman's beauty is one of her great missions. Richard le Galienne
I am a thing of beauty. Frank Sinatra
Our life is a manifestation, and we can very well make that manifestation beautiful and meaningful and have a good influence. Thich Nhat Hanh
When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps. John Lennon