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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.
Navajo song
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We
all long for things of beauty--beauty of nature, of
appearance, of
life, a beautiful family and so on. But these cannot be
gained if we
are withdrawn and isolated, just looking at ourselves.
We must create
better relationships with other people and interact with our
community
and society with an open heart. We must be kind to
nature. It is only
through this process that we really grow and cultivate our own
beauty.
Daisaku Ikeda
Buddhism
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All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful
faces, truthful pictures,
or songs, are highly beautiful.
Mohandas
Gandhi
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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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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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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.
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Too late I loved you, O Beauty
so ancient yet ever new!
Too late I loved you! And,
behold, you were within
me,
and I out of myself, and
there I searched for you.
St Augustine
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The future belongs to those who
believe in the beauty
of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Think of all the beauty still left
around you and be happy.
Anne Frank
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Straight is the line of duty;
Curved is the line of beauty;
Follow the straight line, thou shalt see
The curved line ever follow thee.
William McCall |
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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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While I was looking out
today there came a flying burst of sun, and the
little corner became a sudden
feast of delicate colour; the rich green of
the grass, the foliage of the
lime-trees, their brown wrinkled stems, the
pale moss on the walls, the bright
points of colour in the emblazonries of
the window, made a sudden delicate
harmony of tints. I had seen the place
a hundred times before without ever
guessing what a perfect picture it made.
What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb
and flow
like some secret tide, independent alike of health or 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.
Arthur Christopher Benson
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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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Each
thing in the universe is a vessel
full to the brim with wisdom and beauty.
Rumi
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The human soul needs beauty even more
than it needs bread.
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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 in
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
Fox
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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 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.
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If
either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty,
it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes;
by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of
humanity,
and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.
Upham |
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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.
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Looking
for the essence of beauty is comprehending and
appreciating that quality in an object which is fairer and better
than only what our eyes see or our ears hear, whether that be
a patch of blue in an overcast sky, the fleeting laughter
from a voice we love, or something as unexpected as the
rainbow colors in a spot of oil on the driveway.
Luci Swindoll |
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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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People
should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine
picture every day of their lives, in order that worldly cares may not
obliterate
the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann
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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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