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Quotes about Beauty

    “There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail. All exquisite niceties of weights and measure as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort or reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach’s music is beautiful.”

    Edith Hamilton, Sunbeams (Page 17)

      “I still wear makeup when I feel like it, though less of it, and I still enjoy experimenting with a new shade of lipstick or eye shadow. The point is that I, and everyone else, have a choice. And we should be able to freely make that choice, from one moment to the next, without society’s ‘standard of beauty’ hovering over us. I am my own standard-bearer. So are you.”

      Alicia Keys, More Myself (Page 211)

        “It’s hard not to begin doubting ourself just a little when, with the stroke of an airbrush, someone slims down your thighs or shaves off half your booty. And if I’m doubting myself, imagine what that does for the young people forced to digest these images of so-called beauty.”

        Alicia Keys, More Myself (Page 174)

          “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”

          Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Sunbeams (Page 7)

            “I recently read about a famous actress who died in her eighties. As her beauty started to fade and became ravaged by old age, she grew desperately unhappy and became a recluse. She, too, had identified with a condition: her external appearance. First, the condition gave her a happy sense of self, then an unhappy one. If she had been able to connect with the formless and timeless life within, she could have watched and allowed the fading of her external form from a place of serenity and peace. Moreover, her external form would have become increasingly transparent to the light shining through from her ageless true nature, so her beauty would not really have faded but simply become transformed into spiritual beauty.”

            Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (Page 186)

              “i want to apologize to all the women

              i have called pretty

              before i’ve called them intelligent or brave

              i am sorry i made it sound as though

              something as simple as what you’re born with

              is the most you have to be proud of when your

              spirit has crushed mountains

              from now on i will say things like

              you are resilient or you are extraordinary

              not because i don’t think you’re pretty

              but because you are so much more than that”

              Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (Page 179)

                “he placed his hands

                on my mind

                before reaching

                for my waist

                my hips

                or my lips

                he didn’t call me

                beautiful first

                he called me

                exquisite”

                Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (Page 54)

                Jonas Mekas Quote on Choosing Art and Beauty Against Ugliness and Horrors

                  “I choose art and beauty, vague as those terms are, against ugliness and horrors in which we live today.  For somebody to look at a flower or listen to music does something to one, has a positive effect, and being surrounded by ugliness and horror does something negative.  So I feel my duty not to betray those poets, scientists, saints, singers, troubadours of the past centuries who did everything that humanity would become more beautiful.”

                  Jonas Mekas, via Happiness is a Choice You Make (Page 45)

                  Beyond the Quote (20/365)

                  If it bleeds it leads.  If you haven’t heard this expression before, it’s sort of the unannounced, unofficial but predominantly popular strategy for many media outlets that represents the idea of using fear and despondency to keep viewers tuned in, listening, and coming back to them for more.  It’s popular because it works and because it works it helps media companies sell more advertisements and improve their bottom-line.

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