Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.          —David Hume

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply Reality seen with the eyes of love.

—Evelyn Underhill

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

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

—Percy Bysshe Shelley

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

—Iris Murdoch

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 within.

—Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.     —Albert Einstein

Nobody sees a flower — really — it is so small it takes time — we haven’t the time — and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

 —Georgia O’Keeffe

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

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