Beautiful Quotes
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.Kahlil Gibran
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.Brian Andreas
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it.Paul Klee
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.Jonathan Edwards
Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.George Linley
It must require an inordinate share of vanity and presumption, too, after enjoying so much that is good and beautiful on earth, to ask the Lord for immortality in addition to all.Heinrich Heine
Life is beautiful. Life is sad.Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.Pablo Casals
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04
The greatest wealth consisteth in being charitable, And the greatest happiness in having tranquility of mind. Experience is the most beautiful adornment And the best comrade is one that hath no desire.Tibetan Doctrine
May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.Hadewijch of Antwerp
What a beautiful morning.John Hancock, to Sam Adams at the Battle of Lexington
I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.Marilyn Monroe
Everything beautiful has its moment and then passes away.Cernuda y Bidon Luis Cernuda
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.Joan Rivers
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.W. Somerset Maugham
Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.Anon.
Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.Leonardo DaVinci
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
Nothing is beautiful, only man on this piece of navety rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second nothing is ugly but degenerate man - The domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches
Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.Marlene Dietrich
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.Sophia Loren
The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.Helen Kelle
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.Henry Havelock Ellis
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.I Ching
Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.Luis Cernada
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.Jean Cocteau
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved.Anzia Yenerska
Sometimes I get bored riding down the beautiful streets of L. A. I know it sounds crazy, but I just want to go to New York and see people suffer.Donna Summe
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live".
One day at a time - This is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.Ida Scott Taylor.
The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - The fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.Albert Einstein
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.Reverend Sean Parker Dennison, Ministrare, 2 - 10 - 05
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley
