I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.
Marilyn Monroe

Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.
Mother Teresa

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.
George Washington

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Winston Churchill

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.
Kahlil Gibran

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.
Nelson Mandela

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
Nelson Mandela

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man - the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!
Pablo Picasso

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.
Helen Keller

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
Aristotle

It isn't a matter of black is beautiful as much as it is white is not all that's beautiful.
Bill Cosby

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
Henry David Thoreau

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.
Oscar Wilde

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
Oscar Wilde