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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
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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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
Goethe
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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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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. Anytime
we catch a glimpse of soul, beauty is there;
anytime we
catch our breath and feel "How beautiful!,"
the
soul is present. -Jean
Shinoda
Bolen
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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. -Allen
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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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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
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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. -A.C. Benson |
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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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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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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.
Walter
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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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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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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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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.
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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
Waldo Emerson
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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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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?
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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 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 is God's handwriting.
-Charles
Kingsley
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The future belongs to those who
believe in the beauty
of their dreams. -Eleanor Roosevelt
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Things
are beautiful
if you love them. -Jean
Anouilh
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The
most natural beauty in the world
is honesty
and moral truth.
For all beauty is truth. -Lord
Shaftesbury |
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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. -Louisa May Alcott |
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To a lady who, looking at an engraving
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." -John Constable |
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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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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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What is really beautiful needs no adorning.
We do not grind down the pearl upon a polishing stone.
-Sataka |
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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. -John Ray |
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Think of all the beauty still left
around you and be happy. -Anne Frank |
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Truth exists for the
wise,
beauty for the feeling heart. -
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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. -A.C. Benson |
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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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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. -John Galsworthy |
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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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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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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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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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| 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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