Beauty Quotes
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All gardening is landscape painting.
William Kent
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And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.
Alice Duer Miller
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You're beautiful, but you're empty.... No one could die for you.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.
D. H. Lawrence
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Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it.
Sigmund Freud
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Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. If it were his beauty that enthralled him, he would be set free in a few years by its fading.
W. H. Auden
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The beauty of life is not knowing.
Matisyahu
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“I gained your love then lost my mind. what a bargain. I love you impossibly loving you, my heart is holding more than it can loving you, is making me more than I am your beauty is more than what my soul can bear When I am dying of thirst you are water When I am drowning to death you are breath I love you impossibly I love you impossibly I'd trade my limbs to hold you I'd trade my eyes to see you”
Amir Sulaiman
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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.
Plato
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Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.
Dean Young
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It's just an old alley cat that has followed us all the way home. It hasn't a star on its forehead, or a silky satiny coat. No proud tiger stripes, no dainty tread, no elegant velvet throat. It's a splotchy, blotchy city cat, not a pretty cat, a rough little bag of old bones. 'Beauty,' we shall call you. 'Beauty' come in.
Eve Merriam
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Even in reaching for the beautiful there is beauty, and also in suffering whatever it is that one suffers en route.
Plato
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Beauty Should Begin in the Heart and Soul, otherwise cosmetics are useless.
Coco Chanel
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The greatest activity of which man is capable: Opening up yet another fragment of the frontier of beauty.
Albert Einstein
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Paris, like every pretty woman, is subject to inexplicable whims of beauty and ugliness.
Honore de Balzac
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For, in life, it is in the darkest zones one finds the brightest beauty and the most luminous wisdom.
Adam Gidwitz
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There is a time when it’s necessary to lean in, to say the hard things, to not be silent when one of our sisters is teetering toward compromise. This is how we “bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ” (v. 2). This is how we live out the beauty of the gospel—together.
Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth
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The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
Rumi
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At vero eos et accusamus et iusto odio dignissimos ducimus qui blanditiis praesentium voluptatum deleniti atque corrupti quos dolores et quas molestias excepturi sint occaecati cupiditate non provident, similique sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollitia animi, id est laborum et dolorum fuga.
Patrick Henry
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Beauty is the harmony of purpose and form.
Alvar Aalto
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Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.
Plutarch
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Science grows and Beauty dwindles.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Beauty is less important than quality.
Eugene Ormandy
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Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.
Amit Ray