"We live only to discover beauty... all else is a form of waiting"

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.

-Rabindranath Tagore

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

-Charles Baudelaire

The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

-Susan Sontag

The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul.

-George Sand

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

-Kevyn Aucoin

When I look at myself, I am so beautiful I scream with joy!

- Maria Montez

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

- Oscar Wilde

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.

- Miss Piggy

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