Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look. — Martha Beck
People from different cultures have different definitions for beauty. Isn't that sad to judge others with our standards... rather than appreciate them? — Mizuki Nomura
There is not one standard definition of beauty or one perfect size. — Ashley Graham
Utility is the true criterion of beauty. — Max von Stephanitz
The culture we live in determines which behaviors are attractive to us. — James Clear
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness. — Charles Baudelaire
Standards Of Beauty Image Quotes
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Standards Of Beauty Quotes
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness. — Rodney Dangerfield
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
If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business. — Gail Dines
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
Our concept of beauty is taken from Hollywood, which is anti-black. We don't see ourselves as beautiful in most cases. Although we are naturally one of the most beautiful peoples out there, we don't see it. We don't get the point. Hollywood sets the standards. — John Henrik Clarke
I'm proud of my body. My body weight will always be something I'll struggle with for the rest of my life, but I'm finally in a good place and learning to love me for me, and not somebody else's standards. — Khloe Kardashian
I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness. — Karl Lagerfeld
Be brave enough to hold on to the hope that life will be beautiful again.
to "set the standard for beauty in classical and modem cookery, and attest to the distant future that the French chefs of the 19th century were the most famous in the world. — Marie-Antoine Careme
Women who stay true to themselves are always more interesting and beautiful to me: women like Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe and Anna Magnani - women who have style, chic, allure and elegance. They didn't submit to any standard of beauty - they defined it. — Isabella Rossellini
Production and consumption are the nipples of modern society. Thus suckled, humanity grows in strength and beauty; rising standard of living, all modern conveniences, distractions of all kinds, culture for all, the comfort of your dreams. — Raoul Vaneigem
What Is Beauty Quotes
It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see. — Henry David Thoreau
It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light. — Swami Vivekananda
What matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the gentle gracious kind that God delights in. — Saint Peter
Beauty isn't about having a pretty face. It's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart and a pretty soul.
There are so many people out there who will tell you that you can't. What you've got to do is turn around and say "Watch me." — Layne Beachley
Don't ever let the media tell you what your body is supposed look like. You're beautiful the way you are. Stay beautiful, keep it ugly. — Gerard Way
A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.
Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity. — Anton Chekhov
Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet. — Leonardo da Vinci
What I treasure most in life is being able to dream.
During my most difficult moments and complex situations
I have been able to dream of a more beautiful future. — Rigoberta Menchu
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them. — Marilyn Monroe
Beauty Standard Quotes
I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to. — Sayings
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. — Naomi Wolf
If greed were not the master of modern man, how could it be that the frenzy of economic activity does not abate as higher standards of living are attained, and that it is precisely the richest societies which pursue their economic advantage with the greatest ruthlessness? — E. F. Schumacher
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places, where other people see nothing.
Since time immemorial, youth has set the universal standard of physical beauty, and the reason is simply that a shapely firm young face and body are more attractive sexually and aesthetically than bulges, sags and wrinkles. — Hugh Hefner
Mastering the art of asking questions is essential to creativity and innovation. A More Beautiful Question should be standard reading for all aspiring design thinkers as well an inspiration to those searching for a life of curiosity and meaning. — Tim Brown
The problem is that we as a society simply accept these unrealistic standards: that you have to be thin to be perfect, to be beautiful, to be successful at work and to have a good relationship. And it is making us sick. This self-loathing is crippling women. — Crystal Renn
Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers.
Just as the normative standard for the good and for the true is God, so the ultimate standard of beauty is God. — R. C. Sproul
I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard. — Karl Lagerfeld
Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. — Naomi Wolf
European standards of beauty are something that plague the entire world - the idea that darker skin is not beautiful, that light skin is the key to success and love. Africa is no exception. — Lupita Nyong'o
Perception Of Beauty Quotes
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful. — Kailash Satyarthi
I find beauty in the continual shaping of chaos which clearly embodies the primordial power of nature's performance — Iris van Herpen
The world is full of beauty, you are the greatest proof of this. — Matshona Dhliwayo
If we took just 5 minutes to recognize each other’s beauty, instead of attacking each other for our differences. — Elliot Page
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
There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness. — Shannon Alder
On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day. — Rumi
Scientists and mathematicians are trained to dig below the surface of the chaotic, natural world to search for unexpected simplicity, structure, and even beauty. — Jim Simons
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction. — Kevyn Aucoin
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. — Kevyn Aucoin
Definition Of Beauty Quotes
True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. — Audrey Hepburn
Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. — Zora Neale Hurston
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex. — Spike Milligan
There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me. — Liv Tyler
I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody. — Rufus Wainwright
Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies — Rashida Jones
The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree. — Aristotle
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me. — Sloan Wilson
I definitely want to show how beautiful the marathon can be. I am the opponent of all those who find the marathon bad: the psychologists, the physiologists, the doubters. I make the marathon beautiful for myself and for others. That's why I'm here. — Uta Pippig
Beauty Is Relative Quotes
We live in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass. — Ellen DeGeneres
I think magic is very related to happiness. So it is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone's life. — Penelope Cruz
Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth. — Helena Rubinstein
Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty means to you or your plainness, and what is your relation to the ever-changing and turning world. — Virginia Woolf
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies. — Carter Heyward
My breasts are beautiful, and I gotta tell you, they've gotten a lot of attention for what is relatively short screen time. — Jamie Lee Curtis
Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first. — Paul Klee
Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us. — Blaise Pascal
I think it is a peculiarity of myself that I like to play about with equations, just looking for beautiful mathematical relations which maybe don't have any physical meaning at all. Sometimes they do.
At age 60. — Paul Dirac
Aesthetic Beauty Quotes
Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated. — Paul Rand
All the effects of Nature are only the mathematical consequences of a small number of immutable laws. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
The course hitherto pursued in musical aesthetics has nearly always been hampered by the false assumption that the object was not so much to inquire into what is beautiful in music as to describe the feelings which music awakens. — Eduard Hanslick
The goths are beautiful, a vast depth of subcultural, aesthetic and poetic ideas, and we would identify with that as we did back in 1979. But not the post modern distortion...the costume without the brain. — Peter Murphy
I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop. — Cardi B
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function and simplification. — Raymond Loewy
The more people explore the world, the more they realize in every country there's a different aesthetic. Beauty really is in the eye of the beholder. — Helena Christensen
Physical Beauty Quotes
Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. — Sophia Loren
No matter how tired you are, no matter how physically exhausting this work may be, it's beautiful to bring a smile into someone's life, to care for someone in need. What greater joy can there be? — Mother Teresa
My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. — George Washington
God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple. — Jean-Claude Van Damme
Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet. — Ada Louise Huxtable
Be gentle, kind and beautiful, yet firm and strong, both mentally and physically. — Keiko Fukuda
No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training... what a disgrace it is for a man to grow old without ever seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable. — Socrates
A physical law must possess mathematical beauty. — Paul Dirac
Beauty is not just physical. It's about what you stand for, how you live your life. — Halle Berry
Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind. — Dean Koontz
Beauty Is In The Eye Of The Beholder Quotes
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran
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 beauty you see in me is a reflection of you. — Vanna Bonta
I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. — Salma Hayek
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder. — Laurence J. Peter
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. — Jim Henson
It's a misconception that Beauty is in the Eyes of beholder. In my view, Beauty must be in the Heart of beholder for her true appreciation. — Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
I find beauty in unusual things, like hanging your head out the window or sitting on a fire escape. — Scarlett Johansson
Beauty is not in the face; Beauty is a light in the something you do daily. — Mike Murdock
Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. — H. G. Wells
Essence Of Beauty Quotes
I am the fiery life of the essence of God; I am the flame above the beauty in the fields; I shine in the waters; I burn in the sun, the moon, and the stars. And with the airy wind, I quicken all things vitally by an unseen, all-sustaining life. — Hildegard of Bingen
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful. — Sophia Loren
Like a Shakespearean sonnet that captures the very essence of love, or a painting that brings out the beauty of the human form that is far more than just skin deep, Euler's Equation reaches down into the very depths of existence. — Keith Devlin
We ordinary people must forge our own beauty. We must set fire to the greyness of our labor with the art of our own lives ... What is the essence of this art of living? Of course, even this art should have beauty as its essence. — Kenji Miyazawa
The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty — Kevyn Aucoin
A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations. — Iqbal Quadir
Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin. — Mary Pipher
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway! — Jamie Zawinski
Here in L.A. the standard of beauty is kind of ridiculous. I want to be doing this when I'm in my fifties and sixties and this isn't what I'm going to look like. — Rose Byrne
The standard of beauty is not definite. We define it. — Shamcey Supsup
It's weird because here I am, an actress, representing - at least in some sense - an industry that places crushing standards on all of us. Not just young people, but everyone. Standards of beauty. Of a good life. Of success. Standards that, I hate to admit, have affected me. — Ellen Page
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame
By her just standard, which is still the same:
Unerring nature, still divinely bright,
One clear, unchanged, and universal light,
Life, force, and beauty must to all impart,
At once the source, and end, and test of art. — Alexander Pope
There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature, such as it is, weak or strong, and the thing which pleases us. Whatever is formed according to this standard pleases us, be it house, song, discourse, verse, prose, woman, birds, rivers, trees, room, dress, and so on. Whatever is not made according to this standard displeases those who have good taste. — Blaise Pascal
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
In LA, where I live, it's all about perfectionism. Beauty is now defined by your bones sticking out of your decolletage. For that to be the standard is really perilous for women. — Alanis Morissette
In a couple of Ahdaf Soueif's novels, she gets at the certain kind of English that's being spoken by Egyptians. It's a beautiful, expressive English but it is non-standard, "broken" English that happens to be efficient, eloquent, and communicates perfectly well even if it is breaking rules. — Elliott Colla
My photographs don't go below the surface. They don't go below anything. They're readings of the surface. I have great faith in surfaces. A good one is full of clues. — Richard Avedon
As Muslim women, we have been liberated from this silent bondage. We don’t need society’s standard of beauty or fashion, to define our worth. We don’t need to become just like men to be honored, and we don’t need to wait for a prince to save or complete us. Our worth, our honor, our salvation, and our completion lies not in the slave. But, in the Lord of the slave. — Yasmin Mogahed
Ian sighed wanly. "I once had the means to be gaga over art–before I found myself in a country where the standard of beauty is toaster waffles shaped like cartoon characters. — Gordon Korman
People know that pain is part of our nature, that it cannot be avoided and that it should not be avoided. But capitalism in this country is focused on the idea 1) that life can and should be absolutely beautiful; 2) that beauty can be defined according to an ironclad objective standard; 3) that beauty can be held onto forever if only you do the right things perfectly enough; and 4) that it can be purchased. — Rick Moody
We like people who look good, we like people who elevate our standards, who have things we do not have, it's all about our fantasies. Yes, you can make millions of people dream about somebody who's not good looking, and that's the beauty of cinema, but people don't take the chance that often. — Emmanuel Benbihy
The main thing to understand about the current state of physics is that we have - are in some sense, a kind of victim of our own success. We have an incredibly successful theory called the Standard Model. And it really explains everything that we can observe about and in terms of a very small number of elementary particles and some basic forces between them. And it's a quite beautiful theory and it really is just absurdly successful. — Peter Woit
Women all live a double standard, but this is actually sort of a beautifully grotesque parody of it. There's a weird kind of joy that I have in seeing [Hillary Clinton] trounce this essence of male bullshit. — Joss Whedon
As a woman who doesn't necessarily fit the beauty standard in Hollywood... I really related to the narrative of looking for something you felt comfortable in that would properly express your identity, especially when your identity didn't feel like it necessarily matched the one that was being imposed on you. — Lena Dunham
...aesthetic values are changed under the influence of sexual emotion; from the lover's point of view many things are beautiful which are unbeautiful from the point of view of him who is not a lover, and the greater the degree to which the lover is swayed by his passion the greater the extent to which his normal aesthetic standard is liable to be modified. — Havelock Ellis
One problem that I kept in mind was that in avoiding the BODY BEAUTIFUL as exhibited in the pseudo-lesbians of David Hamilton or J. Frederick Smith, I ran the risk of reinforcing negative myths, i.e. that lesbians are women who cannot attract men because they do not conform to society's standard of beauty. — Tee Corinne
I think television is one of the last real bastions of the white beauty standard, but still in many industries the workers can be replaced by someone who's willing to play the game or who looks like the person in charge. And this is a problem for all women, not just women of color. — Jami Floyd
When you're younger and dumber, as a guy, you do things because you think you have to, because that's how things are done. You wait the standard three days to call, you don't approach the beautiful girl at the bar because you automatically assume she's out of your league, you'd rather jump in a swimming pool filled with jellyfish than tell a woman that you have feelings for her, etc. — Jason Mulgrew
I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of. — Kate Grenville
We have to reformulate moral standards. Human beings have to impose limits on themselves when it comes to their actions and desires. There is a beautiful and very radical notion in the bible: Man is made in the image of God, no matter how sick, poor or damaged he is. We should try to transpose this maxim to our secular and constitutional self-image. — Gotz Aly
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