Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

Blushing is the color of virtue.

I don’t care how many beauty treatments you have, I don’t care which bag you’re carrying – you have to have a dress.

I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.

I’ve been talked about by a lot better people than the general public.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

I’m constantly trying to find new ways to get my hair out of my face.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

The job of art is to chase ugliness away.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Everyone likes flattery; and when you come to Royalty you should lay it on with a trowel.

When you’re 25 or 30, you know, you can’t wear lime-green eye shadow anymore.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It’s very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven’t been to paradise if you haven’t been to Hawaii.

We do not need the empire to give us anything.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

I don’t want flowers or candy or anything like that. I just want somebody to say, ‚Wow, you’ve done a great job.‘

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.

If anything, we should feel sorry for the people who want us to feel bad about ourselves, because they are the ones struggling for approval. In middle school, bullies tortured other kids because they thought it would make people like them more.

I don’t pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Take me seriously. Take me and my role seriously. Take my talent seriously.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

All nature is but art unknown to thee.

I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But… it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I’m so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

He that overvalues himself will undervalue others, and he that undervalues others will oppress them.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

The only meat I eat is from animals I’ve killed myself.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

I think people take me as seriously as I want them to. They take me as seriously as I take myself – let’s put it that way.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.