Chapter Thirty Five: A Thing of Beauty

Sometimes people are beautiful.

Not in looks.

Not in what they say.

Just in what they are.

Markus Zusak, I Am the Messenger

That's always seemed ridiculous to me,

that people want to be around someone

because they're pretty. It's like picking your

breakfast cereals based on

colors instead of taste.

John Green, Paper Towns

A girl should be two things:

classy and fabulous.

Coco Chanel

The most beautiful people we have known

are those who have known defeat, known

suffering, known struggle, kmown loss, and have

found their way out of the depths. These persons

have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an

understanding of life that fills them with

compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving

concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Dwell on the beauty of life.

Watch the stars, and see yourself running

with them.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

Pablo Neruda

There is no exquisite beauty [...]

without some strangeness in the proportion.

Edgar Allan Poe

I can only note that the past is beautiful

because one never realizes an emotion

at that time. It expands later, and thus

we don't have complete emotions about

the present, only the past.

Virginia Woolf

We are all born sexual, thank God,

but it's a pity so many people despise

and crush this natural gift.

Marilyn Monroe

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.

Johanne Wolfgang von Goethe

The truth is not always beautiful,

nor beautiful words the truth.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful,

than a woman being unapologetically herself;

comfortable in her perfect imperfection.

To me, that is the essence of true beauty.

Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You:

Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

It is an absolute human certainty that no one

can know his own beauty or perceive a sense

of his own worth until it has been reflected 

back to him in the mirror of another

loving, caring human being.

John Joseph Powell, The Secret of

Staying in Love

To be creative means to be in love with life.

You can be creative only if you love life

enough that you want to enhance its beauty,

you want to bring a little more music to it,

a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

Osho

Be not the slave of your own past --

plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep,

and swim far, so you shall come back with

new self-respect, with new power, and with an

advanced experience that shall explain

and overlook the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our task must be to free ourselves [...]

by widening our circle of compassion

to embrace all living creatures and the whole

of nature and its beauty.

Albert Einstein

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