Inspirational Quotes on Beauty

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart. – Helen Keller

When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before anyone is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness. In this hour divinely fresh and still, the fair face of every flower salutes me with infinite content; each gives me its color, its grace, its perfume, and enriches me with consummation of its beauty. – Celia Thaxter

Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens and comforts, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails. – Lord David Cecil

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. –Anne Frank

Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is symbolic as well as actual beauty in the migration of birds, the ebb and flow of the tides, the folded bud ready for the spring. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter. – Rachel Carson

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have eyes to see them… – John Ruskin

Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. –Ashley Smith

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. – W. Somerset Maugham

The human soul needs actual beauty even more than bread. – D.H.Lawrence

Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises. Sometimes that beauty is too much for me to handle. Do you know that feeling? When something is just too beautiful? When someone says something or writes something or plays something that moves you to the point of tears, maybe even changes you. – Mark Oliver Everett

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. – Chinese Proverb

Beauty is unbearable… offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time. – Albert Camus

We all experience “soul moments” in life – when we see a magnificent sunrise, hear the call of a loon, see the wrinkles in our mother’s hands, or smell the sweetness of a bay. During these moments, our body, as well as our brain, resonates as we experience the glory of being a human being. – Marion Woodman

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth. – Albert Einstein

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

True beauty must come, must be grown, from within… – Ralph Trine

Do I love you because you’re beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you? – Richard Rodgers, Cinderella

…we too often focus only on the negative aspect of life, on what is bad. If we were more willing to see the good and the beautiful things that surround us, we would be able to change our families. From there, we would change our next-door neighbors and then others who live in our neighbourhood or city. We would be able to bring peace and love to our world which hungers so much for these things. – Mother Teresa

Check Jocelyn's books:

"Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief", "Mend My Broken Heart", "Questions to God", "To Love an Invisible God", "Defending My Catholic Faith", and more - click here.

(You may freely quote excerpts from this website as long as due credit is given to author Jocelyn Soriano and the website itakeoffthemask.com)