Beauty Inspiration Quotes

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. ~ Maya Angelou

Your true beauty is found in being yourself. ~ Avina Celeste

a wish... that we may, each of us, with utter regularity, melt into the truth of our inescapable beauty. ~ Scott Stabile

Beauty is beauty. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Beautiful is not something you become. It's something you already are. ~ Peter Mis

A close contact with nature has been a focus of my life since childhood and has been my inspiration both professionally and personally. I believe that for most of us, most of the time, it is in the everyday experience of beauty, certainly in nature and in music, that we sense a heaven half-revealed and come closest to the true meaning of reality. ~ Densey Clyne

The wiser I become, the less I think beauty has anything to do with appearance. ~ Steve Maraboli

Life is full of beauty, when we focus on the bliss of being. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes. ~ John Baillie

All the beauty lies in the sacredness of the heart. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of these have found a loving home in my soul. ~ Luis Barragan

Vulnerability has to happen for love to be real. ~ Pam Godwin

Our tragedy is their beauty. Our pain is their art. The beatific bereavement that is our life captured on a canvas for all the world to see. ~ Solange Nicole

I've never met a woman with divine sweetness in her eyes, or a delicacy in her smile that was so glorious, that it made my heart ascend to grace. ~ Lionel Suggs

The beauty of inspiration is its unpredictable timing. ~ T.F. Hodge

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.( ... ) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone. ~ Robertson Davies

It is only when the mind and imagination are enriched from exposure to the world of beauty, that artistic creativity and inspiration truly becomes manifest. ~ Mark Woollacott

I really think people are so silly. They spend half of their lives' searching for the beauty of the world when the beauty is within them. The world doesn't make you beautiful, you do. ~ Coco Nicole Estef

I think that her life was about finding the extraordinary in every day. It was how she could sit in her garden on a rainy day and see the beauty in it. It's what got her out of bed every morning. ~ Karen White

Damn, she just kept on surprising him. First with her beauty. Then with the illustrations. He'd been forced to accept that there was more to her character than he'd gleaned from her letters, but none of it fell too far outside the borders of his carefully mapped mental territory labeled "Madeline." She was privileged, sheltered, intelligent, curious, and far too crafty.
But this...
This was different.
As he watched her with the tenants' children, his conception of her pushed against its established boundaries. He was forced to add new descriptors to his list. Ones like "generous" and "responsible" and "protective. ~ Tessa Dare

And It was said to me: "embrace the glorious mess you are". How easy it is to see darkness in the winter shedding and not see that even in its gloominess lies great beauty. That even in our great struggles - lies within a great victory. How then does the Spring green come about without the fertilisation of the Winter brown? Isn't it the very brown that gives way and life to the green we await to goggle in awe. There is power and sheer beauty in your mess. A true triumphing chaos that renders sweet melodic honey to your journey. So again it was whispered to me "embrace the glorious mess that you are ~ Malebo Sephodi

I'm not out to make everybody happy. I'm out to make the right people happy. ~ W.J. Raymond

Inspiration is intention obeyed. ~ Emily Carr

The moon is beautiful, isn't it?" she said.
"I imagine the moon would be a thing of beauty on a night like this. But I prefer what I'm looking at now." His eyes remained focused on Mariko as he spoke. ~ Renee Ahdieh

please, love, leave,
like leaf from tree;
taking beauty,
leaving seed ~ Andrew McMillan

The time of the autumn floods came and the hundred streams poured into the Yellow River. ... Then the Lord of the River was beside himself with Joy, believing that all the beauty in the world belonged to him alone. ~ Zhuangzi

The difference between a mongrel and a thoroughbred, whether brute or man, is not in swiftness, beauty, or endurance, but in courage. ~ Austin O'Malley

So as you are beginning your day anchor yourself in the truth. Know that all is well. Extend this to your friends, colleagues and all that you meet. That life is for YOU! It is never against you. ~ Michael Beckwith

When beauty is defined, illusions of non-beauty manifest
When goodness is identified, badness becomes an option ~ Lao-Tzu

Gratitude is the closest thing to beauty manifested in an emotion ~ Mindy Kaling

I read Norman Lock's The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the themes of Mark Twain's original: class relations, race and slavery, childhood innocence, moral hypocrisy - and, of course, the stark beauty and unforgiving nature of America's greatest river. I finished this absolutely elegant narrative feeling that Huck Finn has never been more alive. ~ David Oshinsky

Beauty ... is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. ~ Oscar Wilde

A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth. ~ Abraham Maslow

It's like looking into a full-length mirror and seeing nothing but pure beauty in the reflection ... and then watching helplessly as it shatters into a thousand pieces before your eyes, knowing that you can do nothing to keep it from breaking ... ~ J. Sterling

The rare beauty of distant places made home seem as if we had been thrown out of paradise and sent to purgatory or worse. ~ Scott Haas

My Dearest, Can you forgive me? In a world that I seldom understand, there are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one's cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore. You, my darling, are the wind that I did not anticipate, the wind that has gusted more strongly than I ever imagined possible. You are my destiny. I was wrong, so wrong, to ignore what was obvious, and I beg your forgiveness. Like a cautious traveler, I tried to protect myself from the wind and lost my soul instead. I was a fool to ignore my destiny, but even fools have feelings, and I've come to realize that you are the most important thing that I have in this world. I know I am not perfect. I've made more mistakes in the past few months than some make in a lifetime. I was wrong to deny what was obvious in my heart: that I can't go on without you. You were right about everything. I tried to deny the things you were saying, even though I knew they were true. Like one who gazes only backward on a trip across the country, I ignored what lay ahead. I missed the beauty of a coming sunrise, the wonder of anticipation that makes life worthwhile. It was wrong of me to do that, a product of my confusion, and I wish I had come to understand that sooner. Now, though, with my gaze fixed toward the future, I see your face and hear your voice, certain that this is the path I ~ Nicholas Sparks

I caught this insight on the way and quickly seized the rather poor words that were closest to hand to pin it down lest it fly away again. And now it has died of these arid words and shakes and flaps in them
and I hardly know anymore when I look at it how I could ever have felt so happy when I caught this bird. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Without followers, evil cannot spread ~ Leonard Nimoy

Beauty comes first. Victory is secondary. What matters is joy. ~ Socrates

We're all going about trying to make beauty in the world and trying to make order out of chaos. And that's what art is. ~ Rebecca Makkai

Journalism is an act of faith in the future ~ Ann Curry

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes ... ~ George Gordon Byron

I believe that the core battle of our day is the battle to defend the inherent dignity of each and every person, the inherent beauty of each and every soul to be respected and treated as beautiful, unique, and sacred child of a loving God. No matter where they are, no matter what they look like, no matter what their status, each is noble and should be treated as such. The beauty of the individual is truth and we know it in our hearts. ~ Sam Brownback

You are strong enough to survive the fall ~ Leigh Bardugo

The heart of a person only beats when it's surrounded by blood, by family. ~ Erica Goros

It is you who decides what you have, even if it be nothing. ~ Evina Varghese

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold. ~ Aristotle.

Our misery. This suppression of our rational mind is the source of inspiration. Suffering takes us out of our rational self-control and lets the divine channel through us. ~ Chuck Palahniuk

I think the chance of finding beauty is higher if you don't work on it directly. Beauty in architecture is driven by practicality. This is what you learn from studying the old townscapes of the Swiss farmers. ~ Peter Zumthor

To image the being of God towards the world, to be the priest of creation, is to behave towards the world in all its aspects, of work, and of play, in such a way that it may come to be what it was created to be, that which praises its maker by becoming perfect in its own way. In all this, there is room for both usefulness and beauty to take their due place, but differently according to differences of activity and object. ~ Colin Gunton

The River
Every day the river waits for your reflection;
it's spine ripples, it backwaters arch
rocking the banks in frothy anticipation.
Rills, rindles, runnels stream into rivulets,
industrious like leaf-cutting ants,
carrying every reflection but yours.
The river will wait, of course;
patience is her nature
and the day you arrive
it will capture your terrestrial beauty,
freighting it to the ocean
with the devotion of a sister's prayer. ~ Beryl Dov

Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a hip, or a clutch of very dark hair falling across a freckled forehead. I'm not saying that's what they really are. I'm just saying sometimes it seems that way, and that those details (a thigh mole, a full face flush, a scar the precise shape and size of a cashew nut) are so many hooks waiting to land you. ~ Zadie Smith

Since we started putting together our makeup collection, Kardashian Beauty, I've been extra invested in our list of no-no ingredients. It's an ingredients black list that we don't allow into the products - no parabens, no sulfates. ~ Kourtney Kardashian

Life is crazy, unexpected, and endlessly beautiful. ~ Daniel Wallock

You know later in life I was inspired to sing and that would've been Aretha, Chaka Khan, Mariah - the typical divas were the inspiration. I've always enjoyed all those singers. ~ Anastacia

I want to lay under the blanket of sky and laugh while the stars wink and we write our story. ~ A.D. Posey

True beauty springs from the heart and dwells in the eyes. ~ Judith McNaught

The love of minds should last beyond lives. ~ Don DeLillo

The essence of beauty is unity in variety. ~ Felix Mendelssohn

Here, also, the future was cried aloud by the wind through the rocks, so that all those who heard would shiver, and then the liquid spring song of the thrush would make all the beauty of moonlight and sunlight blend together, making it true, so true, that happiness must come again ~ Elyne Mitchell

The most difficult thing is to recognize that sometimes we too are blinded by our own incentives. Because we don't see how our conflicts of interest work on us. ~ Dan Ariely

A woman's beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of the sectio aurea or a similar aesthetic superstition; but in the arabesque of the spine. The curve by which the back modulates into the buttocks. It is here that grace sits and rides a woman's body. ~ John Updike