Habits Quote by Mary Wilder Tileston

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Beauty can be born out of not only love, but also pain and other motivations.”

— Following Whispers

“Is there such extraordinary need of misery to make beauty?”

— Anonymous

“Two things there will always be in life: Beauty and pain. Mostly beauty.”

— Anne Clendening

“Beauty is sometimes born of pain”

— Sheri L. Swift

“How could looking into a face of such unparalleled beauty bring about such unprecedented pain?”

— fawn bonning

“Yearning for a better, brighter, more beautiful and sensitive life is borne in pain.”

— Anonymous

“...beauty was found beyond the surface. It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be could .”

— Ted Dekker

“never appeared ugly to me, for his face, beaming with boundless kindness and benevolence towards mankind, had the stamp of intellectual beauty.”

— George Saunders

“Pain and loss, like love and joy, are unique and personal; they cannot be modified by comparison to others.”

— Azar Nafisi

“I wonder if to be human is to know that we can't ever banish pain and ugliness from the world, only learn from it…

— Heather Lende

“Beauty has no other origin than a wound, unique, different for each person, hidden or visible, that everyone keeps in himself, that he preserves…

— Jean Genet