Beauty, Franz Kafka

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

― Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

Beauty, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004)

Arts, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Beauty, Richelle Mead

Richelle Mead

Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful.
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.

― Richelle Mead (1976- ), Vampire Academy

Vampire Academy