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Beauty Quotes by John O'Donohue
- A person's beauty is sophisticated and sacred and is far beyond image, appearance or personality.
- Each morning we awaken to the light and the invitation to a new day in the world of time; each night we surrender to the…
- In turning away from beauty, we turn away from all that is wholesome and true, and deliver ourselves into an exile where the vulgar and…
- When we become isolated, we are prone to being damaged; our minds lose their flexibility and natural kindness; we become vulnerable to fear and negativity.…
- There is a quiet light that shines in every heart. It draws no attention to itself though it is always secretly there. It is what…
- The beauty of nature insists on taking its time. Everything is prepared. Nothing is rushed. The rhythm of emergence is a gradual, slow beat; always…
- We were sent into the world alive with beauty. As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage us towards unexpected…
- Beauty is the illumination of your soul.
- If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light and beauty will…
- There is a relentless search for the factual and this quest often lacks warmth or reverence. At a certain stage in our life we may…
- On its outer surface time is vulnerable to transience. Regardless of its sadness or beauty, each day empties and vanishes. In its deeper heart, time…
- What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals…
- The human soul is hungry for beauty; we seek it everywhere - in landscape, music, art, clothes, furniture, gardening, companionship, love, religion, and in ourselves.…
- Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse…
- The beauty of the Catholic church is that it has a sacramental structure that can hold its own with the best out of any tradition.…
- The beauty that emerges from woundedness is a beauty infused with feeling; a beauty different from the beauty of landscape and the cold perfect form.…
More Beauty Quotes
- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Beauty has a lot to do with character. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put… — Kevyn Aucoin
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Love is the beauty of the soul. — Saint Augustine