Beauty Quotes
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Because I'm a Karamazov. Because when I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I'm even pleased that I'm falling in just such a humiliating position, and for me I find it beautiful.
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If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.
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Four years partly illness much perfection and rejoining beauty and perfection and then at the end there came a definite creation of something. This is what is to be measured.
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Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
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As a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his eyes, which is its natural route to the soul; arriving there and setting him all aflutter, it waters the passages of the feathers and causes the wings to grow, and fills the soul of the loved one in his turn with love.
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Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.
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Exhaustion pays no mind to age or beauty. Like rain and earthquakes and hail and floods.
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Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
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What puts me in a vulnerable state? Beauty, wonder, surprise, mystery. Stuff like that.
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The most important part of vehicle maintenance is clean windows, so if you are broken down you will enjoy the beauty of the view.
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She’s a smart woman. I love that. Intelligence is a wonderful and powerful aphrodisiac. To me, it enhances beauty, makes an ordinary woman look like a movie star.
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The beauty of the natural world lies in the details.
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Why should beauty be suspect?
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True beauty lies deep within. No matter what you look like on the outside, if you know you are beautiful, nothing can change that.
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Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.
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The heart of God loves a persevering worshipper who, though overwhelmed by many troubles, is overwhelmed even more by the beauty of God.
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At its heart, music is all higher mathematics.
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Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that everything we encounter - bliss or nonbliss - possesses a tremendous depth and beauty that we usually miss.
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Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God.
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In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leaves grow.
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It is not so much in buying pictures as in being pictures, that you can encourage a noble school. The best patronage of art is not that which seeks for the pleasures of sentiment in a vague ideality, nor for beauty of form in a marble image, but that which educates your children into living heroes, and binds down the flights and the fondnesses of the heart into practical duty and faithful devotion.
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Suppose a person entering a house were to feel heat on the porch, and going further, were to feel the heat increasing, the more they penetrated within. Doubtless, such a person would believe there was a fire in the house, even though they did not see the fire that must be causing all this heat. A similar thing will happen to anyone who considers this world in detail: one will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.
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We all have a weakness for beauty.
