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Things
are beautiful
if you love them.
Jean
Anouilh
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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. Any time
we catch a glimpse of soul, beauty
is there; any time we
catch our breath and feel "How beautiful!,"
the
soul is present.
Jean
Shinoda
Bolen
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How much beauty goes unnoticed as we hurry from place
to place during the course
of our busy days? How many
flowers and trees do we go by without noticing their colors
or
their marvelous complexity or their scents? How many
rainbows go unseen by how
many people because we close ourselves
up indoors when it rains to "protect" ourselves
from the
elements? How many snowfalls go unenjoyed because it's too
cold outside
or we don't want to bother to put on our gloves and
coats and boots and hats
to keep us warm and dry?
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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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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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Tell me, can you see beauty? Can you let it
renew your commitment
to life, every day? I don't want to wait for death to be near to
receive
the beauty in my life. I want to be awed every day by the
truth--pretty
or painful--and let it open me to the beauty that surrounds me
and draws me deeper and deeper into my own life.
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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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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.
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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
Francois Millet
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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.
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
Kingsley
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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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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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We are conscious of beauty when
there is a harmonious relationship between
something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.
Blaise Pascal
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We are all that we need to be
today, at this moment. And we
have an inner beauty, each of us, that is our real blessing in the
lives of others. Our inner beauty will shine forth if we invite it to
do so. Whatever our outer appearance, it doesn't gently touch
or bring relief where suffering is--like our words which come from
the heart, the home of our inner beauty. . . . It's our inner beauty
that is valued by others. The surprise in store for each of us is
discovering that the glow of our inner beauty transforms
our outer appearance, too.
Karen Casey
Each
Day a New Beginning
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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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I
think of when I was in high school in the 1940s: the white girls
got
their hair crinkled up by chemicals and heat so it would curl, and the
black girls got their hair mashed flat by chemicals and heat so it
wouldn’t curl. Home perms hadn’t been invented yet, and a lot
of kids
couldn’t afford these expensive treatments, so they were wretched
because they couldn’t follow the rules, the rules of beauty.
Beauty always has
rules. It’s a game. I resent the beauty game when
I see it controlled by people who grab fortunes from it and don’t care
who they hurt. I hate it when I see it making people so
self-dissatisfied
that they starve and deform and poison themselves. Most of the
time
I just play the game myself in a very small way, buying a new lipstick,
feeling happy about a pretty new silk shirt.
Ursula K. LeGuin
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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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Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of
the eternal. All beauty
alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with
marvelous
rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull,
then a handful of dust, then nothing.
Eliphas Levi
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Beauty you may
have with you always, if you will
but plant beauty in your heart.
Fred van Amburgh
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An appearance of delicacy,
and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.
Edmund Burke
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The
criterion of true beauty is that it increases upon examination;
if false, that it lessens.
Fulke Greville
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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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