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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

True beauty must come, must be grown, from within.

Ralph W. Trine

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

George Washington Carver

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

William Grenville

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

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 Wolfgang von Goethe

To cultivate the sense of the beautiful is one of the most effectual
ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.

Christian Bovee

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

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

The hours when the mind is absorbed by beauty
are the only hours when we really live.

Richard Jefferies

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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Beauty abounds in the most surprising locales and within even the most soul-searing
experiences.  We simply need to look for beauty and take the time to appreciate
and digest what we see.  I agree with Margaret Wolfe Hungerford's quote "Beauty is
in the eye of the beholder and would add that beauty is also in the beholder's ability
to see. . . . In order to enjoy everyday beauty, you need a desire to see it and the
willingness to open your heart to it.  It helps when you go about your day expecting
to be blessed by beauty everywhere you look and turn.  Expecting and paying attention
to the beauty of the moment will draw to you loveliness beyond imagination.
Appreciating and reveling in beauty can soothe your soul, relax your body,
and immerse you in gratitude.

Sue Patton Thoele

The fact that we can't see the beauty in something doesn't suggest
that it's not there.  Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully
enough or with a broad enough perspective to see it.

Richard Carlson