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Beauty Quotes - Page 43

Joy is the best makeup.

Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.63, Penguin

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.175, University of Georgia Press

True beauty is when someone radiates that they like themselves.

"The Inspirational Aimee Mullins". Interview with Jeff Rivera, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2011.

True beauty dwells in deep retreats, Whose veil is unremoved Till heart with heart in concord beats, And the lover is beloved.

"To ____ ('Let other bards of angels sing...')". Poem by William Wordsworth, www.bartleby.com. 1824.

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

Tennessee Williams (1945). “The Glass Menagerie”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

Beauty is a fruit which we look at without trying to seize it.

Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.150, Psychology Press

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.

Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud (1953). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud: case of hysteria, Three essays on sexuality, and other works”