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When it comes to beauty, there can be a whole lot of different meanings to it. There are numerous types of it, and each differs based on a person’s taste. However, the inspiring words and quotes about beauty compiled below should hit the spot for all and sundry. It’s a wonderful read, sure to shed new light on what you find attractive and perhaps to change your mind about what you don’t.

These beauty quotes we’ve gathered here check all the boxes when it comes to love for yourself and those around us. Hence, if you’re looking for beautiful quotes to express any type of pretty, both inside and out, we hope you’ll find what you’re looking for here. Whether it’s encouraging words for a loved one, or beauty quotes for Instagram pics that you are looking for, whatever it is, feel free to share this love around.

So take a moment, make yourself a cup of tea, read through these inspiring quotes, reflect on them, and let us know in the comments below which you hold the most dear and which has the most influence on you.


#1

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” - Anne Frank

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates.” — Kate Angell

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “If people were more concerned with how they looked on the inside than on the outside, the world would be a nicer place to exist.” — David Walsh

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.” — Zoë Kravitz

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” - Leo Tolstoy

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” - Franz Kafka

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle, and yet most of the audience still sleeps.” — John Lennon

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.” — John Ray

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#9

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart "Nothing can be beautiful which is not true." - John Ruskin

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#10

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “We never noticed the beauty because we were too busy trying to create it.”

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart "Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow, or a communicated sense of fineness." - D. H. Lawrence

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” — Confucius

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” — Khalil Gibran

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Beauty is about enhancing what you have. Let yourself shine through.” — Janelle Monae

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” — Coco Chanel

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Integrity reveals beauty.” — Thomas Leonard

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#17

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “To me, beauty is natural beauty. If you’re naturally yourself, you’re beautiful.” — Young M.A.

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#18

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “There is no exquisite beauty… Without some strangeness in the proportion.” - Edgar Allan Poe

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#19

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “But he who dares not grasp the thorn; Should never crave the rose.” - Anne Bronte

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#20

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.” - Lao Tzu

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#21

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart "Beautiful is not what is beautiful, but what one likes." - Yiddish Proverb

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#22

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “The happier you are the more beautiful you become.”

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#23

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “When beauty lives in the heart, it doesn’t need to show up anywhere else.” — Steve Goodier

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#24

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye but the fire that burned within them.” — Shannon L. Alder

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#25

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me.” — Liv Tyler

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart "Some of us teach ourselves and our children to love the superficial outer; our looks, hair, skin, clothes rather than the greater beauty that resides within whereas it is that inner beauty that really defines you and who you truly are." - Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

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#27

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.” - Scott Westerfeld

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#28

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “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

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart "Shoe-string budgets and backpacking had taught me a lot about simple beauty and spontaneous fun." - Charlene Hicky

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart "We are so busy running around, we miss the simplest most beautiful things. The cycle of life passes us by, unnoticed, unappreciated." - Roz Swartz Williams

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#31

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart "This is one of the beautiful things about life's adventure - we can redirect our paths!" - Mike Burns

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#32

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart "It's not about hair color or lack of hair; it's not about crooked teeth or a beautiful smile. It's about who you are." - Willow Cross

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#33

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart "To me life is an absolutely beautifully thing and way too short not to experience the joys of every single thing it has to offer." - Raymona Brown

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#34

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart "Familiar acts are beautiful through love." - Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#35

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart "There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty." - Joseph Addison

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#36

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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#37

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.” — John Green

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#38

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “To me, beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.” — Ellen Degeneres

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#39

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears.” — Anne Roiphe

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#40

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Butterflies can’t see their wings. They can’t see how truly beautiful they are, but everyone else can. People are like that as well.” — Unknown

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Beauty is an attitude.” — Unknown

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#42

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.” — Maria Mitchell

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#43

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#44

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Beauty shouldn’t be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It’s about knowing that someone else’s definition of pretty has no hold over you.” — Golda Poretsky

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#45

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “When you are balanced, and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.” — Christy Turlington

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Beauty lies not in a flawless complexion but in the stories that are told by each transitioning line on a woman’s face.” — Alyscia Cunningham

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#48

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “Beauty is not something you buy; instead, beauty is what lies within.” — Byron Pulsifer

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#49

120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “I love natural beauty, and I think it’s your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so transformative.” — Marina and the Diamonds

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120 Beauty Quotes To Inspire Love Into Your Heart “What’s the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you’re so ugly on the inside?” — Jess C. Scott

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#51

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

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#52

"Our task must be to free ourselves… By widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it’s beauty." - Albert Einstein

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#53

"I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realizes an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past." - Virginia Woolf

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#54

"You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are." - Melissa Etheridge

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#55

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete? Proving nature’s laws wrong, it learned to walk without having feet. Funny, it seems to by keeping its dreams; it learned to breathe fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else even cared." - Tupac Shakur

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#56

"Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you." - Shannon Alder

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#57

"The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together." - Carl Sagan

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#58

“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.” - Markus Zusak

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#59

“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” - Marcus Aurelius

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#60

“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.” - Amy Bloom

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#61

“Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” - Dorothy Parker

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#62

“I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.” - Marilyn Monroe

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#63

“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.” - Steve Maraboli

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#64

“Summer afternoon — summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” - Henry James

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#65

“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

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#66

"Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life." - Mark Twain

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#67

"Beauty is an expression." - Khiva Cheleigh

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#68

"You are already whole, already complete, already alive in this moment, already beautiful just as you are." - Jon Kabat-Zinn

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"You are who you are, and nothing can change that. You're beautiful just as you are." - Karen Flaherty

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#70

"Imagine all of us living in peace, it's too beautiful to just be a dream." - John Lennon

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#71

"Every moment of life is love and beauty." - Keegan Allen

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#72

"Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same." - Helen Keller

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#73

"Reclaim your identity as the beautiful, unique, and vital member of the human family that you are." - Jeremy Harrison

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"We search for reasons to celebrate and in doing so, we forget the beautiful occasions that life sends our way, every other day." - Sumeet Jain

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#75

"Travel and tell no one, live a true love story and tell no one, live happily and tell no one, people ruin beautiful things." - Kahlil Gibran

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#76

"Our beautiful Earth has places that are so beautiful and shocking, that’s why many natural places can give us positive energy." - Esperanza Ramírez Velásquez

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#77

“Be your own kind of beautiful.” - Unknown

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#78

“Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself on the inside and out.” - Unknown

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“Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.” - Alice Walker

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“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” - Rumi

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#81

"I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want — an adorable pancreas?" - Jean Kerr

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#82

"There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting." - John Kenneth Galbraith

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#83

"Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare/And beauty draws us with a single hair." - Alexander Pope

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"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." - Saint Augustine

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#85

"The echoes of beauty you've seen transpire, resound through dying coals of a campfire." - Ernest Hemingway

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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart." - Hellen Keller

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“The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode, but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.” — Audrey Hepburn

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“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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#89

“Beauty is not caused. It is.” — Emily Dickinson

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#90

“There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.” — Conrad Hall

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#91

“Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.” — H. G. Wells

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“The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.” — Havelock Ellis

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“Beauty has a lot to do with character.” — Kevyn Aucoin

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#94

“Outer beauty turns the head, but inner beauty turns the heart.” — Helen J. Russell

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#95

“Inner beauty, too, needs occasionally to be told it is beautiful.” — Robert Brault

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#96

"Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty." - David Hume

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"Of life’s two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer’s hand." - Khalil Gibran

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"I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself." - Emma Stone

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#99

"Beauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference: beauty demands to be noticed; it speaks to us directly like the voice of an intimate friend. If there are people who are indifferent to beauty, then it is surely because they do not perceive it." - Roger Scruton

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#100

"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

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"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known 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 Kubler-Ross

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#102

"Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself." - Paramahansa Yogananda

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"Only through difficulty can you rest at the peak, look out over the horizon that surrounds you, and rejoice beyond today's imagination at how beautiful life really is and how lucky we truly are." - Michelle C. Ustaszeski

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#104

"Change is what keeps the galaxy spinning. It's what makes it beautiful." - Siri Tachi

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#105

"Sisters become more beautiful as each day passes by." - Michelle Malm

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#106

"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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#107

"In time she realized that beauty is about being yourself, natural and authentic." - Mihaela Noroc

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#108

"Who amongst has not enjoyed looking at a beautiful sunset or a sunrise! We all have at some point of time stopped to admire a snow covered landscape or a beautiful sunny day." - Pegasus, Natural Wonders

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"I believe that there is beauty in the simplest of things if we only search for it." - Danielle Wagasky

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"A new morning of a new day and I opened my eyes to see, the beautiful surroundings and clouds in the sky that's layered so neat. Birds chirping away as they embrace a new day. I can see the ocean in view, as I see a day opened up to new." - Marcelle Hinkson

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#111

"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers, and are famous preservers of good looks." - Charles Dickens

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#112

"A shrub can produce hundreds of dangling flowers, each as beautiful as the next." - Michael Largo

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#113

"Many parts of our natural world are breathtakingly beautiful, and are here for all to see." - Michael Bright

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"You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your own soul's doing." - Marie Carmichael Stopes

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"Life is a gift, but it's an uncertain gift. So all we can do is embrace the beauty in the midst of the uncertainty, knowing that's the best groundwork for a miracle." - Brandon Buell

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#116

“Real beauty is to be true to oneself.” - Laetitia Casta

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#117

"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty." - Edmund Burke

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#118

"The perception of beauty is a moral test." - Henry David Thoreau

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#119

"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly." - Oscar Wilde

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"She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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