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Beauty
as we feel it is something
indescribable; what it is or what
it means can never be said.
George
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In all ranks of life the human
heart yearns
for the beautiful; and the
beautiful things
that God makes are his gift to all alike.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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We should hear a little
music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of our
lives,
in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful
which God has implanted in the human soul.
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The most
beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known
suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of
the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity,
and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion,
gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not
just happen.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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I have heard that beauty is in the eye of the
beholder, so today
and every day
I make a conscious effort
to behold the beauty
in all people.
Every person
of every nation is a child of God,
here by divine appointment. All
people—my friends, relatives,
even complete
strangers—are works
of the divine Creator.
They
are all tributes to God’s grandeur and
reflect the beauty that is God.
I am beautiful. When I look in
the mirror, I see a unique,
magnificent,
God-centered being looking back.
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Beauty
captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission
to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling
for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some
human being, the transference of love is made possible,
at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the
beauty
of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.
Simone
Weil
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To
seek after beauty as an end, is a wild goose chase,
a will-o'-the-wisp, because it is to misunderstand the
very nature of beauty, which is the normal condition
of a thing as it should be.
Ade
Bethune |
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I will hold beauty as a shield
against despair.
Elsie Robinson |
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Nature is painting for us, day
after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we
have eyes to see them.
John
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True beauty consists of purity
of heart.
Mohandas
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If you look for ugliness, you
will find it
everywhere. When you look for beauty,
you will find that everywhere.
Narayana |
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We
ourselves possess true Beauty when we are true to our
own being; ugliness is going to another order; knowing
ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are
ugly.
Plotinus |
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The beauty is forever there before us,
forever
piping to us, and we
are forever
failing to dance. We
could
not help but
dance if we
could see things as they
really
are. Then
we should kiss both hands
to Fate
and fling our bodies,
hearts,
minds, and
souls into life with
a glorious
abandonment,
an extravagant, delighted loyalty, knowing
that our wildest enthusiasm cannot more than
brush
the hem
of
the real beauty and joy
and wonder that are always
there.
Margaret Prescott Montague
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Even the common articles made for daily
use
become endowed with beauty when they are loved.
Soetsu Yanagi |
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Each
thing in the universe is a vessel
full to the brim with wisdom and beauty.
Rumi |
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beauty
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One
of the most important--and most neglected--elements in the
beginnings of the interior life is the ability to respond
to reality,
to see the value and the beauty in ordinary things,
to come alive to the splendor that is all around us.
Thomas
Merton |
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A
spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish
grace
is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of
courage;
genuine modesty is a possible example, as is selfless
love.
Although moral beauty is a natural gift, it is
nevertheless
more likely to emerge and flourish in societies
that appreciate and encourage it.
Yi-Fu
Tuan |
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The human soul needs beauty even more
than it needs bread.
D.H. Lawrence |
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may appear that the experience of true beauty is
very difficult to achieve. This is
definitely not true. In fact, the experience
of beauty often arises naturally and
unexpectedly. Several weeks ago, I went
kiting with my children. It was a fine
day. I have not flown a kite for a long
time, and I am very glad that I did it
again. For I discovered the beauty of kiting
that day. To see the kite take off in the
wind, to let it soar into the heights, to feel the
tightness of the string in my hand and to run
around laughing and screaming like a
child--all these add up to an exhilarating
experience. It was such a tremendous feeling
of liberation. For a while, it looked as if
the world was just one big kite, soaring into the
blue sky. There was a lot of action in that
sport, but I felt a genuine sense of stillness and
harmony at the same time. I was one with the
game.
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If
I don't see something or someone as beautiful, I often
ask myself what it is in me that's keeping me from seeing
the beauty. What part of me is blocking my vision so
that
I can't see the most precious aspects of that thing or
person?
If I can find an answer to that question, then seeing the
beauty all around me becomes easier, and my soul becomes
richer.
tom walsh |
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When
a sudden ray of sun or a moonbeam falls on a dreary
street,
it makes no difference what it illumines--a broken bottle
on the ground, a fading flower in a field, or the flaxen
blonde hair of a child's head. The object is
transformed and
the viewer is transfixed. Celebrate that moment of
beauty and
take it with you in your memory. It is God's gift to
you.
Luci
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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.
Matthew
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There's incredible beauty in the world.
Open yourself to see it.
Stephen C. Paul |
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Anything
that is beautiful is beautiful just as it is.
Praise forms no part of its beauty, since praise
makes things neither better nor worse. This applies
even more to what it commonly called beautiful:
natural
objects, for example, or works of art. True beauty
has no need of anything beyond itself.
Marcus
Aurelius |
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What
matters is not your outward appearance. . . but your
inner disposition. Cultivate inner beauty, the
gentle
gracious kind that God delights in.
The
Apostle Peter |
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To
analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music;
it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy
than to attempt to understand.
Henry
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Beauty remains even in misfortune.
If you just look for it,
you discover more and more happiness and regain your
balance.
A person who's happy will make others happy;
a person who has courage will never die in misery.
Anne Frank |
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Three
things drain a person's health: worry, travel, and
sin.
Three things restore a person's good spirits:
beautiful
sounds, sights, and smells.
The
Talmud
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underestimate the healing effects of beauty.
Florence
Nightingale |
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Oh,
better than the minting
Of a gold-crowned king
Is the safe-kept memory
Of a lovely thing.
Sara
Teasdale
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All
things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence
under the aspect of beauty: for beauty is simply
Reality seen with the eyes of love.
Evelyn
Underhill
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