1. “The fruition of beauty is no chance of hit or miss… it is inevitable as life.” – Walt Whitman
2. “In suchugly times, the only true protest is beauty.” – Phil Ochs
3. “Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting – a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
4. “I have no problem with whatever the next big look is. Just don’t try to tell me that only one look is beautiful.” Alek Wek
5. “Beauty without intelligence is an illusion that is close to disenchantment. It is like a fairy that fascinates us, as long as we look at her through the enchanting prism of her beauty. However, it disappears as soonas thelight of reason penetratesbeyond the place where , the eyes can see.” – Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera, Concerning Women’s Intelligence and Beauty, 1876
6. “When I see all those girls in those weekly magazines, standing there, in dress after dress, I think the fact that they go out to be seen in different clothes all the time doesn’t make them more beautiful. These dresses are not theirs – they are picked out by stylists, and it doesn’t feel like they own them. To me, that’s not terribly sexy.” Jacqueline Bisset, Allure Magazine
7. “Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is it’s own excuse for being.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “The Rhodara”
8. “There’s nothing in my way. Besides who wants to be perfect? It’s so ugly.” -Kate Hudson, referring to her small breasts
9. “Even beauties can be unattractive. If you catch a beauty in the wrong light at the right time, forget it. I believe in low lights and trick mirrors. I believe in plastic surgery.” – Andy Warhol
10. “Even I don’t wake up looking like me.” Cindy Crawford
11. “The beauty of life, is that you don’t have to be modernly beautiful to live it.” – C.S. Lewis
12. “Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” – Jacqueline Bisset
13. “The first question I ask myself when something doesn’t seem to be beautiful is why do I think it’s not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason.” – John Cage
14. “When I hear something like that – people using me as a model for plastic surgery – it sort of makes me sad. It’s not that I’m against plastic surgery. If it makes you feel better about yourself fine. But I love scars. I love people with strong noses or interesting features or interesting eyes. I love uniqueness and people who own their uniqueness.” Angelina Jolie, Allure Magazine
15. “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.” – Francis Bacon
16. “Perfect sincerity and transparencymake a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.” – Henry David Thoreau, “Journal”
17. “I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self image at first and I guess I hit a bottom, and I was like ‘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. I often find it’s just the confidence that makes you sexy, not what your body looks like.” – Queen Latifah, actress/rapper
18. “I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty – a sunken beauty.” – Jean Genet
19. “Beauty in things lies in the mind which contemplates them.” – David Hume
20. “Perfection is really not the same as beauty. I didn’t feel I was agreat beauty, but I did have a look, and that look was mine.” – Racquel Welch, Allure Magazine
21. “Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” – Kahil Gibran
22. “I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.” – Karl Lagerfeld
23. “Beauty puts a face on God. When we gaze at nature, at a loved one, at a work of art, our soulimmediately recognizes and is drawn to the face of God.” – Margaret Brownley, Grieving God’s Way
24. “Looking for and enjoying beauty is a way to nourish the soul. The universe is in the habit of making beauty. There are flowers and songs, snowflakes and smiles, acts of great courage, laughter between friends, a job well done, the smell of fresh-baked bread. Beauty is everywhere.” – Matthew Fox
25. “Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.”– Johann Joachim Winckelmann
