Beauty Quote by James A. Michener

“The quality that we call beauty ... must always grow from the realities of life.”

— Jun'ichirō Tanizaki

“Beauty is the brightness of being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“I think the message of goodness over beauty is a valuable one. I wish the world knew it.”

— Alex Flinn Beastly

“In modern times, beauty is more trusted than goodness.”

— Amit Kalantri

“I'd rather be thought of as smart, capable, strong, and compassionate than beautiful. Those things all persist long after beauty fades.”

— Cassandra Duffy

“There is so much beauty in just existing. In being alive.”

— Hannah Harrington

“Yet beauty is a shallow thing. So fleeting. Strength, intelligence, spirit, these things can be far more appealing than what lies on the surface…

— Kyra Dune

“Life is full of beauty, when we focus on the bliss of being.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Is there any beauty like the bliss of being?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“perhaps real beauty was something unrecognized by the conscious self, a work that was always in progress, a thing of being rather than seeing.”

— Stephen King

“Beauty like her is not born. It is suffered for, earned and shaped, until the day that it finally becomes. For there is nothing…

— Becca Lee

“She’d always envied beautiful women. Not solely for the beauty itself but because when attributes were parceled out by whatever deity assigned them, beauty…

— Tessa Dare