Shirley Hazzard Quotes

Sometimes beauty needs a bit of ignoring, to properly come into being.

We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

Do not be troubled for a language, cultivate your soul and she will show herself.

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don't see what goes on underground - as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don't see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

External beauty is a bizarre thing to me.

Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

I've etched out who I am through myriad haircut attempts, outfit attempts, beauty attempts, diet attempts. It's been an evolution.

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

One need not spend too much of time and money to look beautiful.

While the majority of my career has relied on my aesthetics and how I look, I worked hard at keeping a spiritual connection with what was most important, what is inside me.

Beauty is a life-long evolution.

Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid?

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so.

And so then, keep on growing, My son. Keep on becoming. And keep on deciding what you want to become in the next highest version of your Self. Keep on working toward that. Keep on! Keep on! This is God Work we're up to, you and I. So keep on!

I believe every PERSON is beautiful. What you do with that beauty, how you develop it, is up to you.

Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.

[If you want to] ask the question what is beautiful? It's the life that you lead. It's the life that all women lead.