Those who look for beauty, find it.

I’m opening an article at work with a quote about beauty and it got me thinking about beauty. Yea, I know it’s cliché, but it’s fun to ponder things like truth and love and beauty when you have a second. So what is it? What makes things beautiful or not? And to whom? Everyone’s seen those couples where you think “guess there’s someone out there for everyone.” And most people who have ever witnessed modern art wonder who wasted so much wall space on something so ridiculous/ strange/ simple/ obnoxious/ WEIRD.

I don't know the answers to any of these questions, by the way. But rhetorical questions are a writers best friend, right? Anyways, in my search for quotes on beauty I found these. And since everyone loves a good uplifting quote or two I thought I’d share.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
-Maryanne Williamson

Beauty is not caused. It is.
-Emily Dickinson

Beauty is the shadow of God on the universe.
-Gabriela Mistral

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


And on a lighter note (so this isn’t ALL super transcendentalist):

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