Love & Beauty

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
--Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty is an experience, nothing else.  It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness. What ails us is that our sense of beauty is so bruised and blunted, we miss all the best.
--D. H. Lawrence

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched ... but are felt in the heart.
--Helen Keller

In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
--George Santayana

Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see. 
--George W. Russell

Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the heart.
--Kahlil Gibran

A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
--John Keats

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.
--John Muir

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
--Virginia Woolf

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
--Sophia Loren

How many loved your moments of glad grace.
And loved your beauty with love false or true.
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
--W.B. Yeats (The Countess Kathleen)

Truth, and goodness, and beauty are but different faces of the same all.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes
and see what is in her heart.
--Nate Dircks

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows.
For love is the beauty of the soul.
--St. Augustine

Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.
--Friedrich Schiller

Do you love me because I'm beautiful,
or am I am beautiful because you love me?
--Oscar Hammerstein, II

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

Some people, no matter how old they get,
never lose their beauty -
they merely move it from their faces
into their hearts.
--Martin Buxbaum