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" Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man. "

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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" It is still breathtaking to me to watch people bring love, preciousness and kindness to their inner world, allowing the light of God to shine through their eyes so that the beauty of their soul can come forth. "

" Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. "

Thomas Jefferson

" Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside. "

Emmanuelle Beart

" The beautiful remains so in ugly surroundings. "

Malcolm de Chazal

" In a general sense, I think it's bad to bring too much money into climbing, since it takes away a little from the beauty of the mountains. But at the same time, I can't blame the Nepali government - or the Indian, Pakistani or Chinese, depending on where you're climbing - from wanting to capitalize on foreign climbers. "

" Natural beauty really entices men. They will tell you this time and time again, and studies consistently prove it. "

" Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job. "

" Any saxophone player will have those influences come through in their music in a very different way. I can listen to the same 10 sax players as someone else for my entire life, and we'll both play completely differently. That's the beauty of being a musician. "

" Beauty is no dead thing. It is the manifestation of God in nature. There is not one object in nature untouched by man that is not beautiful, for God's manifestation is beauty. It shines through all His works, and not only in those that may give pleasure to man. "

" The way a woman carries herself and the way she dresses ought to promote the following types of words: modesty, discretion, wisdom, beauty, elegance and refinement, but not sensuality, luxury, extravagance. "

" I don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect. "

" It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous. "

" Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. "

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

" I think we live in a world where the most important thing is daily life: sharing a space with your family, making meals, being with your people. It's not only the idea of privacy, it's the beauty of the moment, at a time in the world when everything goes really fast - too fast. "

" We live in a state with a wonderful climate and plenty of natural beauty, from the shores of Cumberland Island to the Chattahoochee River to the Blue Ridge Mountains. "

" Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion. "

" For thousands of years, human beings have been obsessed with beauty, truth, love, honor, altruism, courage, social relationships, art, and God. They all go together as subjective experiences, and it's a straw man to set God up as the delusion. If he is, then so is truth itself or beauty itself. "

" Beauty is the lover's gift. "

William Congreve

" Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea's most exquisite species will not survive. "

Sheherazade Goldsmith

" As a young girl who was not confident in myself, I think I would tell girls of all ages that there is no one type of beauty, and looking towards one standard is the most unhealthy thing in the world. "

Barbie Ferreira

" My mom is very much about 'less is more.' She showed me how to use makeup to enhance your beauty but not to change your face, which I think is important. "

" I've learned that when God promises beauty through the ashes, He means it. "

" Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. "

" Find beauty not only in the thing itself but in the pattern of the shadows, the light and dark which that thing provides. "

Junichiro Tanizaki

" Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace. "

" I find beauty in imperfection. "

Rachel Morrison

" If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amongst so much beauty; there's no urgency in trying to find the beauty within themselves. If you're stuck in New York, you have to somehow look within yourself - otherwise, you'd go crackers. "

George Harrison

" A more secret, sweet, and overpowering beauty appears to man when his heart and mind open to the sentiment of virtue. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. "

Joseph Wood Krutch

" An exile reads change the way he reads time, memory, self, love, fear, beauty: in the key of loss. "