Being Beautiful Quotes (page 2)

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• religious
• images
• beauty

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety. Alain de Botton

• feeling
• smart
• enough

I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years. Mary J. Blige

• beautiful
• beauty
• good

It is better to be beautiful then to be good, but it is better to be good then to be ugly. Oscar Wilde

• great
• believe
• beautiful

All this emphasis on youth - I don’t buy it. Listen, I know what a misery being young can be, so don’t tell me it’s so great. All these kids who came to me with their struggles, their strife, their feelings of inadequacy, their sense that life was miserable, so bad they wanted to kill themselves... and in addition to all the miseries, the young are not wise. They have very little understanding about life. Who wants to live everyday when you don’t know what’s going on? When people are... Morrie Schwartz

• beautiful
• beauty
• thinking

I think I can be beautiful with all the little stuff done, and I can be ugly. A lot of attractive actresses can't be ugly. Juliette Lewis

• mathematics
• impressive
• about being beautiful

No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful. George Boole

• beer
• mountain
• wine

They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful. E. M. Forster

• thinking
• beauty
• reading

We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful. Oscar Wilde

• style
• wind
• beauty

I envision a style: a style that would be beautiful, that someone will invent some day, ten years or ten centuries from now, one that would be rhythmic as verse, precise as the language of the sciences, undulant, deep-voiced as a cello, tipped with flame: a style that would pierce your idea like a dagger, and on which your thought would sail easily ahead over a smooth surface, like a skiff before a good tail wind. Gustave Flaubert

• beautiful
• beauty
• affection

It is not enough for poems to be beautiful; they must be affecting, and must lead the heart of the hearer as they will. Horace

• beautiful
• friends
• bear

O dear Pan and all the other gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him. Plato

• believe
• beauty
• beautiful

Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. William Morris

• may
• beauty her
• beautiful her

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful. Eleanor Roosevelt

• change
• beautiful
• beauty

Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us. Arundhati Roy

• end
• passed away
• beautiful

This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away. J. R. R. Tolkien