Beautiful Quotes That Will Lift Your Spirits
Our human societies have developed certain criteria to describe what is beautiful and what is not. What makes something beautiful is a debatable topic; however, in general, certain views, sounds, smells, tastes or tactile sensations can incite our senses in a pleasing manner, which we perceive as beautiful. Among all the sensory organs, vision has become the most controversial filter of beauty as what we perceive as visually beautiful varies drastically from culture to culture. It is especially true for human beings as we seem to spend a lot of money and effort to enhance our looks to achieve certain standards to boost our self-esteem. Thankfully, in recent times, there has been a shift in focus from outward beauty to inner beauty, which is easier to achieve and all can possess. These beautiful quotes about accepting one's true self and invoking inner beauty are sure to lift your spirits.
J. K. Rowling
The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
Helen Keller
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart
P G Wodehouse
There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.
Albert Einstein
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Ray Bradbury
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
Mother Teresa
Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
T S Eliot
To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
Sylvia Plath
If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
Eleanor Roosevelt
No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.
Virginia Woolf
I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
David Byrne
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.
We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.
Ellen DeGeneres
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
Thich Nhat Hanh
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
Drew Barrymore
I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.
Orhan Pamuk
When I write, I feel that I'm writing with my intellect. When I paint, I think it's some other force making me paint. I - as I wrote in my novel 'My Name is Red' - watch with amazement what my hand is doing on the paper, what kind of line, what kind of strange, beautiful thing it's doing in spite of my will, so to speak.
Marilyn Monroe
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.
