Last Updated on September 6, 2024
What first comes to mind when you hear the word “beauty”? For some, it may mean the physical beauty of an individual. For others, beauty is a trait. Beauty is defined in different ways and takes on various forms.
Definitions of Beauty
Beauty can be defined as a quality found in a person or an object that gives pleases you. It’s an adjective that describes a pleasant quality in a person, place, or object.
But, over the years, the perception of a person’s beauty has been warped. Nowadays, beauty is gauged with an emphasis on the physical aspects of an individual. As a result, some are pressured to keep up with changing beauty trends.
Sometimes, when these “standards” aren’t met, it causes someone to ultimately feel bad about themselves.
The Value of Beauty
Life is filled with many beautiful moments. Being able to appreciate beauty enables you to establish a deeper, more meaningful connection with everything that surrounds you. Being able to see beauty allows you to appreciate small moments and interactions with the people in your life.
According to artist Theaster Gates, beauty matters because:
It is primally enriching.
Beauty is a human need and it fulfills our primal thirst for a connection with the sublime.
Beauty changes people.
For the better, that is. It changes the way we act. Being in a beautiful place enables us to focus on and care about where we are.
Beauty brings about more beauty.
Beauty stems from beauty. Beautiful actions inspire a chain of positivity. Beauty has the power to dispel a community’s fears and apprehensions. It can inspire creativity and hope. It can nurture talent, skills, and ideas.
Even small things can be beautiful.
A small, random act of kindness is a thing of beauty. Even small civic actions, which can generate pride, are beautiful and can pave the way for positive transformations.
Finding and Appreciating Beauty
Let’s face it: realizing our own beauty can be difficult. But learning to embrace it can do wonders for our spirit. It can help us see the beauty in the things that surround us.
Here are some ways to help you appreciate your own beauty:
Pamper yourself.
Take the time to moisturize and do your hair and makeup. Go out and wear your favorite ensemble. Walk with your head held high. Treat yourself to a well-deserved day at your local spa. Before you know it, you’ll be feeling beautiful and confident.
Learn to accept compliments.
One of the ways to embrace your beauty is to learn how to accept compliments. Smile and say thank you whenever you receive praise.
Learn to forgive.
Forgiveness is a beautiful thing. It liberates you from all pain, hurt, and anger. Being able to let go of negativity will enable you to attract beauty and positivity.
Beauty is an integral part of our everyday life. Learning to appreciate and experience beauty can bring us more pleasure and happiness.
We have curated # quotes on beauty to help you better understand and appreciate its value:
Inspirational Beauty Quotes
- “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, Paper Towns
- “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” – Anne Frank
- “All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren’t.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.” – Coco Chanel
- “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” – Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
- “It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” – Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
- “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…Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.” – Amy Bloom
- “What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.” – Scott Westerfeld, Uglies
- “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.” – Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
- “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” – Dorothy Parker
- “There is no exquisite beauty…without some strangeness in the proportion.” – Edgar Allan Poe
- “Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” – Franz Kafka
- “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” – Confucius
- “But he who dares not grasp the thorn; should never crave the rose.” – Anne Bronte
- “Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.” – Oscar Wilde
- “I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
- “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
- “Why do beautiful songs make you sad?’ ‘Because they aren’t true.’ ‘Never?’ ‘Nothing is beautiful and true.” – Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
- “We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.” – Marilyn Monroe
- “No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “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 truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.” – Lao Tzu
- “I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Just because you’re beautiful and perfect, it’s made you conceited.” – William Goldman, The Princess Bride
- “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.” – Thomas Mann, Death in Venice and Other Tales
- “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, Unapologetically You
- “Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.” – Henry James
- “There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “’Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss…’ He turned to me. ‘But every once in a while, you find someone who’s iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.’” – Wendelin Van Draanen, Flipped
- “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
- “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, The Rose That Grew from Concrete
- “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
- “The human body is the best work of art.” – Jess C. Scott
- “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
- “I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.” – Drew Barrymore
- “Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.” – Edgar Allan Poe
- “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
- “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Essays
- “She’s kind of a walking poem, she’s this perfect beauty…but at the same time very deep, very smart.” – Johnny Depp
- “You were given life; it is your duty (and also your entitlement as a human being) to find something beautiful within life, no matter how slight.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
- “I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?” – Jean Kerr
- “The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.” – Louisa May Alcott
- “A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement.” – Jess C. Scott
- “Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.” – Alex Flinn, Beastly
- “Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” – Frederick Buechner, Beyond Words
- “A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” – John Keats, Endymion: A Poetic Romance
- “The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.” – C. Cast, Betrayed
- “Do I love you because you’re beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?” – Richard Rodgers, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella
- “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” – Marc Riboud
- “Beauty, to me, is about being comfortable in your own skin. That, or a kick-ass red lipstick.” – Gwyneth Paltrow
- “It’s all mirror, mirror on the wall because beauty is power the same way money is power the same way a gun is power.” – Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
- “Let us leave pretty women to men with no imagination.” – Marcel Proust, The Captive & The Fugitive
- “Looking at him now-even if she hadn’t been in love with him, that part of her that was her mother’s daughter, that loved every beautiful thing for its beauty alone, would still have wanted him.” – Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
- “Women who love themselves are threatening; but men who love real women, more so.” – Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
- “It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.” – Maya Angelou
- “Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.” – Ruta Sepetys, Between Shades of Gray
- “True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.” – Yukio Mishima
- “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
- “You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. But that’s a lie, and you know it.” – John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
- “And when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.” – Ruskin Bond, Scenes from a Writer’s Life
- “There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.” – Stendhal, Love
- “Women think of all colors except the absence of color. I have said that black has it all. White too. Their beauty is absolute. It is the perfect harmony.” – Coco Chanel , Chanel
- “The beautiful is always bizarre.” – Charles Baudelaire
- “Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.” – Ellen DeGeneres, .. I’m Kidding
- “Beauty surrounds us.” – Rumi
- “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, Of the Standard of Taste and Other Essays
- “The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.” – Kahlil Gibran, The Broken Wings
- “Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.” – Amit Ray, Meditation
- “Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.” – Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942
- “He moved like a dancer, which is not surprising; a horse is a beautiful animal, but it is perhaps most remarkable because it moves as if it always hears music.” – Mark Helprin, Winter’s Tale
- “Beauty is truth, truth beauty – that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” – John Keats, The Complete Poems
- “Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.” – John Lubbock, The Use Of Life
- “But beauty is about finding the right fit, the most natural fit, to be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself – avoid trying to be something you’re not. For a goddess, that’s especially hard. We can change so easily.” – Rick Riordan, The Lost Hero
- “Beauty fades, dumb is forever.” – Judge Judy Sheindlin, Beauty Fades, Dumb is Forever
- “A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.” – Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
- “There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness.” – Katerina Stoykova Klemer
- “I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.” – Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
- “When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things. Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?” – Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
- “Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.” – Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
- “The beauty of the world…has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.” – Virginia Woolf
- “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” – Sophia Loren
- “Butterflies are self propelled flowers.” – Robert A. Heinlein
- “June has never looked more beautiful than she does now, unadorned and honest, vulnerable yet invincible.” – Marie Lu, Legend
