The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.

In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

He looked at me like I was the stars when all I’d ever felt like was the dark nothingness between them.

Don't let your heart depend on things That ornament life in a fleeting way! He who possesses, let him learn to lose, He who is fortunate, let him learn pain.

I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]

The heaviest object in the world is the body of the woman you have ceased to love.

There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness.

What breaks in daybreak? Is it the night? Is it the sun, cracked in two by the horizon like an egg, spilling out light?

As an artist, you just want to keep creating, keep finding a place that really inspires you that feels fresh and new and keep it exciting.

The old men know when an old man dies.

Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality.