“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
Beauty is one of those things everyone recognizes and nobody can quite define. These quotes take on physical beauty, natural beauty, inner beauty, and the strange way beautiful things can make you feel both happy and a little sad at the same time.
“If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.”
“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
“I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.”
“I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.”
“Wigs have always been a part of my life and have become a staple accessory in my closet. I can remember being a little girl and hearing all the commotion in my house from my mom, aunts and grandmother when picking out their wigs for the day. It was such a good time for them and part of their everyday beauty routine.”
“I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within.”
“That's the beauty of being a comedian - it's the one job you're allowed to do that. We're lucky. We're really lucky.”
“People tend not to use this word beauty because it's not intellectual - but there has to be an overlap between beauty and intellect.”
“Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again.”
“I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.”
“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”
“Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.”
“Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?”
“This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.”