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The
most natural beauty in the world
is honesty
and moral truth.
For all beauty is truth.
Lord
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It is not growing like
a tree
In bulk, doth make me better be;
Or standing long an oak tree, three hundred year,
To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sear:
A lily of a day
Is fairer far in May,
Although it fall and die that night--
It was the plant and flower of Light.
In small proportions we just beauties see,
And in short measures life may perfect be.
Ben Jonson
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Far away there in the sunshine
are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up
and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they
lead.
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of a house, called it an ugly thing, he said,
"No, madam, there is nothing
ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an
object be what it may--light, shade, and perspective will always make it
beautiful."
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Whenever I experience
something beautiful, I am with Soul.
That moment of inward breath,
that pause and awareness of
"how beautiful this is" is a prayer of appreciation,
a moment of gratitude in which I behold beauty and am one with
it.
Jean Shinoda
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Looking for and enjoying beauty
is another way to nourish the soul.
The universe is in the habit of
making beauty. There are flowers
and songs, snowflakes and smiles,
acts of great courage, laughter
between friends, a job well done,
the smell
of fresh-baked bread.
Beauty is everywhere, ready to
nourish the soul. It must only
be seen to begin helping us.
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Youth is happy because
it has the ability to see beauty.
Anyone who keeps the ability to see
beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you
do not find yourself beautiful yet,
act as does
the creators of statues that
are to be made beautiful;
they cut away here, they smooth there,
they make this
line lighter,
this other purer, until a lovely face has grown upon their work.
So do you also; cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that
is crooked,
bring light
to all that is in shadow; labor to make
all one glow of beauty
and never cease chiseling
your statue
until there shall shine out on you
from it the godlike splendor of virtue,
until you shall see the perfect Goodness
established in the stainless shrine.
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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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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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Anne Frank
Think of all the beauty still left
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What is really beautiful needs no adorning.
We do not grind down the pearl upon a polishing stone.
Sataka |
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Truth exists for the
wise,
beauty for the feeling heart.
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That which is striking and beautiful
is not always good,
but that which is good is always beautiful.
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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.
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Beauty is an all-pervading presence.
It unfolds to the numberless
flowers of the Spring;
it waves in the branches
of the trees and in
the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths
of the
earth and
the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious
stone.
And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains,
the
clouds, the heavens,
the stars, the rising and the setting sun
all overflow
with beauty. The universe is its temple;
and those people
who are alive to it
can not lift their eyes without feeling themselves
encompassed with it on
every side.
Now, this beauty is so precious, the enjoyment it gives so refined
and pure, so congenial
without tenderest and noblest feelings, and
so akin
to worship, that it is painful to think
of the multitude of people
as living
in the midst of it, and living almost as blind to it as if,
instead
of this
fair earth and glorious sky, they were tenants of a dungeon.
An infinite
joy is lost to the world by the want of culture of this
spiritual endowment. The greatest truths are wronged if not linked
with beauty, and they win their
way
most surely and deeply into
the soul when arrayed in this their natural
and fit attire.
William Ellery Channing
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Wherever snow falls, or water flows, or
birds fly, wherever day and night meet in twilight,
wherever the blue heaven
is hung by clouds, or sown with stars, wherever are forms
with transparent
boundaries, wherever are outlets into celestial space, wherever is danger,
and awe, and love, there is Beauty, plenteous as rain, shed for thee.
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Beauty means this
to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when
any one of us
has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful,
we have known an
emotion which is in every case the same in kind,
if not in degree; an emotion
precious and uplifting.
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Be grateful
for the beauty all around you
Appreciate the sky while it's blue
When skies turn to grays
Love that color as it stays
With such variety and diversion
Don't greet the day with aversion
Or fall for the mediocre and mundane
Keep your thought bright, uplifted and sane
Life forever flows with a forward motion
Ride the highest wave in this beautiful ocean.
Sandra Imperatore
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Things looked at patiently
from one side after another
generally end by showing a side that is
beautiful.
Robert
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Beauty,
I believe, comes from God;
therefore, there can be no beauty
without goodness.
Baldassare
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Some
people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty --
they merely
move it from their faces into their hearts.
Martin
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Though we travel the
world over to find
the beautiful, we must carry it with us
or we
find it not.
Ralph Waldo
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The kind of beauty I
want most is
the hard-to-get kind that comes
from within -- strength,
courage, dignity.
Ruby Dee |
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There are no
better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity,
modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit;
and there is no true beauty without the signatures
of these graces in the
very countenance.
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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
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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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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.
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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.
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We were made to enjoy
music, to enjoy beautiful sunsets,
to enjoy looking at the billows of the sea and to be thrilled with
a rose that is bedecked by dew. . . . Human beings are actually
created for the transcendent, for the sublime, for the beautiful,
for the truthful. . . and all of us are given the task of trying to make
this world a little more hospitable to these beautiful things.
Desmond Tutu |
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Without painting,
sculpture, music, poetry, and the
emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind,
life would lose half its charm.
Herbert Spencer |
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To cultivate the sense of the beautiful
is one of the most effectual
ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
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