Top 1200 Beauty Myth Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Myth is a powerful medium because it talks to the emotions and not the head. It moves us into an area of mystery.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

I feel an important part of beauty is not only what you do on the outside but also what you put into the inside. Good fresh food with many vegetables along with love and caring for others. I spend way more time serving others than I do on my beauty routine daily.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

I do like beauty, but an older woman can be beautiful and a clever woman is beautiful because that beauty shines through.

(I am) dealing not with the particular anecdote, but rather with the Spirit of Myth, which is generic to all myths at all times.

The sensation of seeing extremely fine women, with superb forms, perfectly unconscious of undress, and yet evidently aware of their beauty and dignity, is worth a week's seasickness to experience... [to me] the effect [of a Siva dance] was that of a dozen Rembrandts intensified into the most glowing beauty of life and motion.

I come from a loving, supportive family, and my mother taught me that there are more valuable ways to achieve beauty than just through your external features. She was focused on compassion and respect, and those are the things that ended up translating to me as beauty.

You know, all these sentiments about beauty coming from within, they've always resonated when I've read them, but it takes a bit of living to truly appreciate them. To realise we are so much more than our experiences, that we are who we are because of the lessons we've learnt, now that's what true 'beauty' is for me.

Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation.

But Mole stood still a moment, held in thought. As one wakened suddenly from a beautiful dream, who struggles to recall it, but can recapture nothing but a dim sense of the beauty in it, the beauty! Till that, too, fades away in its turn, and the dreamer bitterly accepts the hard, cold waking and all its penalties.

I must say, I've been in the studio with Jay Z, dog... I thought the freestyle thing was a myth. But, bro!

I think in a lot of ways unconditional love is a myth. My mom's the only reason I know it's a real thing.

Beauty - what is beauty, forsooth? Form and color; that is, surface only. Fortune - what is fortune? Nothing is ever a pleasure or a real profit to him who has to labour for it. Truth - you die in the pursuit, and the sea beats the beach as it did a thousand years ago. The stolid are alone happy.

The myth works to make the very real things people don't want to look at visible for them.

Beauty lies within a person that is willing to do anything for their love, love is beauty within the heart.

As a girl, you're supposed to love Sleeping Beauty. I mean, who wants to love Sleeping Beauty when you can be Aladdin?

We have to be realistic about what we can achieve in Afghanistan. The notion that the United States can build a Western-style democracy there is a myth

Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it.

It's a myth that older writers can't write for younger audiences. Shakespeare wasn't 15 when he wrote Romeo and Juliet.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.

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.

There are faces so fluid with expression, so flushed and rippled by the play of thought, that we can hardly find what the mere features really are. When the delicious beauty of lineament loses its power, it is because a more delicious beauty has appeared, that an interior and durable form has been disclosed.

There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar.

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

I wanted to be cleared up about that Lost Weekend. I've heard enough of the myth. It was frustrating, but I let it go.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not – for I have the same Idea of all our Passions as of Love they are all in their sublime, creative of essential Beauty . . .

The real "opium of the people", distracting men's minds from their essential task, is the communist myth of an earthly paradise.

The "October Revolution" is a myth generated by the winners, the Bolsheviks, and swallowed whole by progressive circles in the West.

That shoreline where the island of knowing meets the unfathomable sea of our own being is the landscape of myth.

Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.

Obviously I have propagated the occasional myth about myself, because the real me, I'm not worth knowing.

I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?

Overcoming the myth that there is such a thing as an objectively defined 'free market' is the first step towards understanding capitalism.

I don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.

The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

I try to mimic the pattern of memory and of thinking and the randomness of life. It's like a journey. That is the main thing about the beauty of life; that you don't cram. And not only beauty, but also the fact that there is never a concrete thing in life.

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

I love how Hollywood still wants to perpetuate the myth that beaches in Southern California are warm at night.

rummaging in the storehouses of religious or literary history for myth-matter for ideational uses is of the nature of spiritual vulgarity.

I'm a storyteller: the crux of the matter is to reach beauty, poetry; it doesn't matter if that is comedy or tragedy. They're the same if you reach the beauty.

The aesthetic, as I understand it, is really about the way in which we understand beauty and speak and think about beauty.

I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

To be contemplative we must remove the clutter from our lives, surround ourselves with beauty, and consciously, relentlessly, persistently, give clutter away until the tiny world for which we ourselves are responsible begins to reflect the raw beauty that is God.

Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren't really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul's Drag Race is years and years of practice.

We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it

In the 'era of colorblindness,' there's a nearly fanatical desire to cling to the myth that we, as a nation, have 'moved beyond' race.

Maps of Time attempts to assemble a coherent and accessible account of origins, a modern creation myth.

We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.

Being in the beauty industry, since there wasn't many men in makeup it was weird and obviously at beauty events we would get weird looks. But over time it's been amazing seeing how accepting everyone is when it comes to boys wearing makeup.

The test of a true myth is that each time you return to it, new insights and interpretations arise.

The wallpaper with which the men of science have covered the world of reality is falling to tatters. The grand whorehouse which they have made of life requires no decoration; it is essential that only the drains function adequately. Beauty, that feline beauty that has us by the balls in America, is finished.

Such power!" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. "Where? What power?" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. "Such beauty has power," Adelaida said hotly. "You can overturn the world with such beauty.

Poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization - carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language.

I look up to people not necessarily based on what they look like. For example, Edith Piaf is somebody I think is a beauty hero even though she was definitely considered to not be beautiful. It was just her charisma and stage presence, and to me, that really defines beauty.