A Collection of Inspiring Beauty Quotes to Uplift Your Spirit

"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."

- Anne Frank

"If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate … joy is not made to be a crumb"

- Mary Oliver

"Our sense of enchantment is not triggered only by the grand things; the sublime is not hiding in distant landscapes. The awe-inspiring, the numinous, is all around us, all the time. It is transformed by our deliberate attention."

- Katherine May

"Beauty is the harvest of presence."

- David Whyte

"Beauty is not caused. It is."

- Emily Dickinson

"Joy isn’t hard to find at all. In fact, it’s all around us"

- Ingrid Fetell Lee

"There are flowers everywhere for those who want to see them."

- Henri Matisse

"Don’t hunt for diamonds. Get fascinated by pebbles. The world is already more interesting than anyone can possibly imagine. You just need to pay attention."

- Russell Davies

"Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest."

- Christian Dior

"Females are the most beautiful, gorgeous creatures in the whole world. And I think that we are gorgeous no matter what size we are."

- Alicia Keys

"At some point, the girl who never thinks she is pretty, will believe she is. And she is beautiful."

- Emily R. McCormick

"You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don’t let the storm make you forget it."

- Russell T Davies

"You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are."

- Melissa Etheridge

"Forgive yourself for believing that you’re anything less than beautiful."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"You are beautiful because that’s the skin you were born with. Love it. And be proud of it."

- Shay Mitchell

"Just exactly as you are, this minute, right now, without changing a thing…you are beautiful. Beautiful enough to take God’s breath away…"

- Neale Donald Walsch

"It’s okay to feel like you don't look like the next person. But what you have to know is that you are beautiful and you are strong and you are worth it. It's important to know that."

- Jordin Sparks

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."

- Marilyn Monroe

"People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing you are the beholder."

- Salma Hayek

"Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you're most beautiful."

- Zoë Kravitz

"A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too. I want to encourage women to embrace their own uniqueness."

- Miranda Kerr

"Leave your hair natural. Let your beard grow out. Leave the makeup in the bag. Wear comfortable clothes. Stop worrying so much about your looks and start looking around you. You have missed so much beauty trying to become beautiful. You have missed your own worth trying to become worthy. Let the mask break open. Let it lie on the floor. Let yourself be seen. Let yourself see."

- Vironika Tugaleva

"Yes, you are beautiful! You are magical because of all your flaws, quirks, and weirdness! Yes, you are beautiful in your own unique way."

- Avijeet Das

"Try your hardest to be confident in who you are. You are enough - you are beautiful."

- Meagan Tandy

"You are good enough, smart enough, beautiful enough, strong enough."

- Lolly Daskal

"When you don’t feel beautiful, look at your true reflection. You are a miracle made out of stars, my love, you are stardust perfection."

- Christy Ann Martine

"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

- Confucius

"Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"You are beautiful when you are happy."

- Oscar Wilde

"You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don't let the storm make you forget it."

- Russell T Davies

"Tall, thin, curvy, short – whatever you are, you are beautiful."

- Demi Lovato

"To this day, the first thing that I do every morning is look in the mirror. I'll tell myself, 'Look at your skin. Look at your teeth and your smile. You are beautiful.'"

- Khoudia Diop

"Just exactly as you are, this minute, right now, without changing a thing… you are beautiful. Beautiful enough to take God's breath away…"

- Neale Donald Walsch

"You are beautiful in every single way. Words can’t bring you down."

- Christina Aguilera

"Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self."

- Priscilla Presley

"Why would I try to change who I look like, what my race is? No. No no no. You are beautiful because that's the skin you were born with. Love it. And be proud of it."

- Shay Mitchell

"Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful."

- Jacqueline Bisset

"Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?"

- Clara Schumann

"You are beautiful just the way you are."

- Nick Vujicic

"Beauty is whatever gives joy."

- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

- Maya Angelou

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."

- Maria Mitchell

"You are beautiful. You are strong. You are worth it. You are loved."

- Macaile Hutt

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."

- Edgar Allan Poe

"Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good."

- Laetitia Casta

"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

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."

- John Keats

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."

- Saint Augustine

"The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we love. Because we see things so often, we see them less and less."

- Joseph B. Wirthlin

"The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."

- Coco Chanel

"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams."

- Ashley Smith

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

- Voltaire

"When virtue and modesty enlighten her charms, the lustre of a beautiful woman is brighter than the stars of heaven, and the influence of her power it is in vain to resist."

- Akhenaton

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror."

- Khalil Gibran

"Beauty awakens the soul to act."

- Dante Alighieri

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

- Edmund Burke

"You are beautiful because of the light you carry inside you. You are beautiful because you say you are, and you hold yourself that way."

- Mary Lambert

"It's OK to feel like you don't look like the next person. But what you have to know is that you are beautiful and you are strong and you are worth it. It's important to know that."

- Jordin Sparks

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorns have roses."

- Alphonse Karr

"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 from within."

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"There’s always a sunrise and always a sunset and it’s up to you to choose to be there for it… put yourself in the way of beauty."

- Cheryl Strayed

"Some people could be given an entire field of roses and only see the thorns in it. Others could be given a single weed and only see the wildflower in it. Perception is a key component to gratitude. And gratitude a key component to joy."

- Amy Weatherly

"When I tell you that you're beautiful, I don't just mean your appearance. I mean all of you; who and what you are, is beautiful."

- Steve Maraboli

"You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable."

- Steve Maraboli

"Integrity reveals beauty."

- Thomas Leonard

"Life is beautiful and so are you."

- Debasish Mridha

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express."

- Francis Bacon

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Things are beautiful if you love them."

- Jean Anouilh

"There is a kind of beauty in imperfection."

- Conrad Hall

"There is a role and function for beauty in our time."

- Tadao Ando

"Rare is the union of beauty and purity."

- Juvenal

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder."

- H. G. Wells

"A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears."

- Anne Roiphe

"Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference."

- Aristotle

"In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty."

- Christopher Morley

"I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'"

- William Butler Yeats

"A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power."

- George Meredith

"Beauty is a fragile gift."

- Ovid

"In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!"

- Homer

"Beauty is that which is simultaneously attractive and sublime."

- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

"Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments."

- Munshi Premchand

"In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves."

- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

"Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord."

- Nikolai Gogol

"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality."

- Charles Lamb

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them."

- David Hume

"If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads."

- Anatole France

"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."

- John Ray

"The little things? The little moments? They aren't little."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself."

- Henry Miller

"With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world."

- Max Ehrmann

"Even if you find yourself knee-deep in mud, on this breath, it’s worth saying there is beauty in this corner of the field."

- Sarah Blondin

"When we are consumed - partially or wholly - by the dark, it may be that we need to squint or use a magnifying lens to see the small pins of light, but they are there."

- Ella Frances Sanders

"Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates."

- Kate Angell

"If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty which is, who cares?"

- Tina Fey

"I think whenever there’s potential for beauty, beauty can be found. And everything has potential for beauty."

- Kamand Kojouri

"Forgive yourself for believing that you're anything less than beautiful."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are."

- Markus Zusak

"You are a beautiful and wonderful soul. Recognize and illuminate it."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"It’s that heart of gold and stardust soul that makes you beautiful."

- R.M. Broderick

"And in her smile, I see something more beautiful than the stars."

- Beth Revis

"What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully. You are so beautiful to me."

- Matthew Fox

"You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful."

- Amy Bloom

"Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder."

- Aldous Huxley

"How many years did I waste worrying about the way I look? I'm almost 60 and it has taken me all these years. Don't wait until you get to my age to realize that you are beautiful."

- Shirley Ballas

"Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."

- Socrates

"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

"Beauty and folly are old companions."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away."

- Laurence J. Peter

"Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant."

- Douglas Horton

"be joyful though you have considered all the facts."

- Wendell Berry

"If roses could talk, they would not boast of their beauty, because they know that they have always been beautiful."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"You're beautiful, like a May fly."

- Ernest Hemingway

"The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer."

- Joan Collins

"Gorgeous hair is the best revenge."

- Ivana Trump

"It's okay to wake up and look however you look. You are beautiful regardless."

- Ella Mai

"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it."

"Every day may not be good, but there's something good in every day."

"Celebrate every shade of beauty."

"You are beautiful when your soul is shining."

"True beauty can’t be seen in the mirror, it’s reflected in your soul."

"Everyone has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

"You don’t have to be perfect to be beautiful."