Stephen Chbosky Quotes

Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards, incomplete, she is beautiful.

I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too.

Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty.

… his [Charles Evans Hughes’] greatest fault is his failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done. This is a great weakness in any man. I think it was one of the strongest things about [Theodore] Roosevelt. He never tried to minimize what other people did and often exaggerated it..

My wife jokes that any time I want to take a picture of her, it has nothing to do with her - it's just because the light is really nice. She's usually right. I definitely am somebody who notices the way the light skips off the floor.

The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow.

By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful.

All is as beautiful as we think it.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespectful about, say, Eminem. He's talented and he's good at what he does.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

I'm not that obsessed with making representations of ugliness. Everything I've seen is beautiful.

If you see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious, as I think I do, then you feel quite alive.

For me, life offers so many complexly appealing moments that two beautiful objects may be equally beautiful for different reasons and at different times. How can one choose?

Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.

Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?

I've known you for years. Everyone says you were beautiful when you were young, but I want to tell you I think you're more beautiful now than then. Rather than your face as a young woman, I prefer your face as it is now. Ravaged.

It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty.

Do you think I’m pretty?” I heard myself ask. Something I couldn’t name flashed across his face. “No. I don’t think you’re pretty. I think you’re the most beautiful girl I’ve ever seen.

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave

The real and proper question is: why is it beautiful?

I think when you're as talented as me or you, you don't need to have an ego. On a serious note, the people I most admire in the world in my field have never shown that much ego to me.

I just think of things as beautiful or not. Can't you understand? I don't think of good or bad. Just of beautiful or ugly. I think a lot of nice things are ugly and a lot of nasty things are beautiful.

Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.