Louisa May Alcott Quotes

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.

So many things become beautiful when you really look.

There is always something to see, if you only know how to look.

People will notice the beauty of what they usually ignore ~

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person.

Important lessons: look carefully; record what you see. Find a way to make beauty necessary; find a way to make necessity beautiful.

We all share beauty. It strikes us indiscriminately. There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty. If we take pictures of them and blow up the photographs, we realize we walk on beauty every day, even when things seem ugly around us.

If you think something is ugly, look harder. Ugliness is just a failure of seeing.

It requires a certain kind of mind to see beauty in a hamburger bun.

Fashion is not easy. You have to change your eye to look for beauty all the time.

He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.

Nothing is boring if you look at carefully.

My idea being that for the sublime and the beautiful and the interesting, you do not have to look far away. You have to know how to see.

There's always beauty, if you know where to look.

Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.

I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.

Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with broad enough perspective to see the beauty.

If you're looking at things with the right set of eyes, people are endlessly fascinating. And then, of course, if you look at it the wrong way, then the whole world is horrible and tedious and boring. That's the battle, really--to keep looking at the world in the right way.

I go too fast to see much, only the tops of everything. I've got to prowl slow some time through this country.

Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour

You have to know how to look even if you don't know what you're looking for.