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Things
are beautiful
if you love them.
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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
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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
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Beauty of
whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably
excites
the sensitive soul to tears.
Edgar Allen
Poe
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The future belongs to those who
believe in the beauty
of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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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.
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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 |
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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
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Beauty is God's handwriting.
Charles
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There's nothing fair
nor beautiful, but takes
Something from thee, that makes it beautiful.
Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow |
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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
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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
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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 |
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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.
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Navajo song
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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.
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Jean
Shinoda
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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!,"
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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 |
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For beauty being the
best of all we know
Sums up the unsearchable and secret aims
Of nature.
Robert Bridges
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It is amazing how complete is the
delusion
that beauty is goodness.
Leo Tolstoy
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Beauty is everlasting
And dust is for a time.
Marianne Moore
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As I hold the
flower in my hand and think of trying to describe it,
I realize how poor a
creature I am,
how impotent are words in the presence of such perfection.
Celia Thaxter
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The best part of beauty is
that
which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon |
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
Confucius |
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The criterion of true
beauty is that it increases on examination;
if false, that it lessens. There is therefore,
something in true beauty that corresponds with right reason,
and is not the mere creation of fancy.
Lord Grenville
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There's
beauty all around our paths,
if but our watchful eyes
can trace it midst familiar things,
and through their lowly guise.
Felicia D.
Hemans
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The real sin against life is
to abuse and destroy beauty,
even one's own --even more, one's own,
for that has been put in our care
and we are responsible for its well-being.
Katherine Anne Porter
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Almost
any intense emotion may open our “inward eye”
to the beauty
of reality. Falling
in love appears to do it
for some people.
The beauty of nature or the exhilaration
of artistic
creation does it for others.
Probably any high
experience may momentarily stretch our
souls up on tiptoe,
so that we catch a glimpse of that marvelous
beauty which is
always there, but which we are not often tall
enough to perceive.
Margaret Prescott Montague
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True beauty must come, must be
grown, from within.
Ralph W. Trine
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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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Take from our hearts the love of the beautiful,
and you take away all the charm of life.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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