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Things are beautiful
if you love them.

Jean Anouilh

   
As I experience it, appreciation of beauty is access to the soul.  With beauty
in our lives, we walk and carry ourselves more lightly and with a different look
in our eyes.  To look into the eyes of someone beholding beauty is to look
through the windows of the soul.  Anytime we catch a glimpse of soul, beauty
is there; anytime we catch our breath and feel "How beautiful!," the soul is present.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

      
How much beauty goes unnoticed as we hurry from place to place during the course of our busy days?  How many flowers and trees do we go by without noticing their colors or their marvelous complexity or their scents?  How many rainbows go unseen by how many people because we close ourselves up indoors when it rains to "protect" ourselves from the elements?  How many snowfalls go unenjoyed because it's too cold outside or we don't want to bother to put on our gloves and coats and boots and hats to keep us warm and dry?

tom walsh
  

Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm.  Philosophies fall
away like sand, and creeds follow one  another like the withered
leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons
and a possession for all eternity.

Oscar Wilde
   

Everyone wants to understand art.  Why not try to understand
the song of a bird?  Why does one love the night, flowers,
everything around one, without trying to understand them?

Pablo Picasso
   

Beauty of whatever kind, in its
supreme development, invariably excites
the sensitive soul to tears.

Edgar Allen Poe

The future belongs to those who
believe in the beauty
of their dreams.

Eleanor Roosevelt
   
  
   

Tell me, can you see beauty?  Can you let it renew your commitment
to life, every day?  I don't want to wait for death to be near to receive
the beauty in my life.  I want to be awed every day by the truth--pretty
or painful--and let it open me to the beauty that surrounds me
and draws me deeper and deeper into my own life.

Oriah Mountain Dreamer
  

Is it wholly fantastic to admit the
possibility that Nature herself
strove toward what we call beauty?
Face to face with any one of
the elaborate flowers which the
human's cultivation has had nothing
to do with, it does not seem fantastic
to me.  We put survival first.  But
when we have a margin of safety
left over, we expend it in the search
for the beautiful.  Who can say that
Nature does not do the same?

Joseph Wood Krutch
  

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think,
all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends
I want to see.  The longer I live the more my mind dwells upon
the beauty and wonder of the world.  I hardly know which feeling leads,
wonderment or admiration.

John Burroughs
  
   

What a strange power the perception of beauty is!  It seems
to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike
of health and disease, of joy or sorrow.  There are times
in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way,
and when the beauty of the world sets itself like
a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

A.C.
Benson
  

The beauty that addresses itself
to the eyes is only the spell
of the moment; the eye of the body
is not always that of the soul.

George Sand
   

 
Beauty does not lie in the face.
It lies in the harmony between a person and his or her industry.
Beauty is expression.
When I paint a mother I try to render her beautiful
by the mere look she gives her child.

Jean Francois Millet
  

A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

 John Keats

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When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty.
I only think about how to solve the problem.
But when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.

R. Buckminster Fuller

  

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple;
which has no superfluous parts; which exactly
answers its end; which stands related to all things;
which is the mean of many extremes.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

  

Beauty is God's handwriting.

Charles Kingsley

There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes
Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  

  
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful,
for beauty is God's handwriting--a wayside sacrament. Welcome it
in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every flower, and thank God
for it as a cup of blessing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
  

The useful may be trusted to further itself,
for many produce it and no one can do without it;
but the beautiful must be specially encouraged,
for few can present it, while yet all have need of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
   

The thing which we speak of as beauty does not have to be
sought in distant lands. . . . It is here about us
or it is nowhere.

Allen Tucker
  

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song,
and all about you will be beauty. There is
a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Navajo song
  

God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers
O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours.
A hundred lights in every temple burn,
And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

Walter Savage Landor
  

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The purpose of creation is beauty.  Nature in all its various aspects
develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose
of life is to evolve towards beauty.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

   
  
  
I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove
off the road, the beauty was so intense.  It looked as if God had sent in
a team of the world’s finest artists overnight—and I was privy to the
opening day of his spectacle.  As I slowly drove along this festive row,
leaves danced in the air and brushed against my windshield.  It seemed
as if I had landed in Oz.  I was strongly tempted to get out
and clap at God’s imagination.

Sheila Walsh

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I have consciously sought after those things which make for value, order, richness, spirit and wonder, even though I am often unable to verbalize what I feel when I perceive something beautiful.  Sometimes it's a pang or a sensation; at other times it is an awareness of joy and security or pure pleasure.  In any event, it is a moment to be celebrated.  Beauty justifies itself.  The fact that it is beyond definition means nothing.

Luci Swindoll
   
   

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When your inner eyes open, you can find immense beauty hidden within
the inconsequential details of daily life.  When your inner ears open,
you can hear the subtle, lovely music of the universe everywhere you go.

Timothy Ray Miller