All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love.--Evelyn Underhill (Mysticism)

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

Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.--Plotinus (The Enneads)

Beauty and sadness always go together.
Nature thought beauty too rich to go forth
Upon the earth without a meet alloy.--George MacDonald

Beauty I have learned from the ugly, charity from the unkind, and peace from the turmoil of the world.--Frederick Ward Kates

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.--David Hume ("Of the Standard of Taste" Four Dissertations)

Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.--Jean Anouilh (Becket) 

Beauty that dies the soonest has the longest life. Because it cannot keep itself for a day, we keep it forever. Because it can hove existence only in memory, we give it immortality there.--Bertha Damon (A Sense of Humus)

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

By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.--Hannah Arendt (Rachel Varnhagen)

Dragons will wander about
the waste places,
and the phoenix will soar
from her nest of fire
into the air
We shall lay our hands
upon the Basilisk,
and see the jewel
in the toad's head.
Champing his gilded oats,
the hippogriff will stand
in our stalls,
and over our heads
will float the bluebird,
singing of beautiful and
impossible things,
of things that are lovely
and that never happened,
of things that are not
and that should be.--Oscar Wilde (The Decay of Lying)

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.
For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it.
For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.--Ivan Panin

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.--Oscar Hammerstein

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature's gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.--Jimmy Carter

It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart.--Anonymous

Keep your faith in all beautiful things; in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.--Roy R. Gilson

A little beauty is preferable to much wealth.--Sa'di (Gulistan)

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

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.--Albert Einstein

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 within.--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.--Percy Bysshe Shelley

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.--John Ruskin. (The Stones of Venice, I)

Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.--Louis Orr (speech to the American Medical Association, 6/6/60)

Then we shall rise and view ourselves with clearer eyes in that calm region where no night can hide us from each other's sight.--Henry King

A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.--John Keats

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.--Charlotte Perkins Gilman

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.-- Jawaharlal Nehru

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.--J. R. R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

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