Beautiful Quotes
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince
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".
In times of profound change, the learners inherit the earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.Al Rogers
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.
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.B. B. King
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.Emma Albani
As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.Van Wyck Brooks
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
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.Susan Sontag
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley Warne
While I know that the beautiful, the spiritual, and the sublime are today suspect, I have begun to stop resisting the constant urge to deny that beauty has a valid right to exist in contemporary art.Ian Hornak, Cover Magazine, 1994; American Idealist & Realist Painter and Draughtsman recognized for his collaboration with the
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
Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.Pablo Casals
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.Kahlil Gibran
Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.Reinhold Niebuh
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.John Barrymore
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.Albert Einstein
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.D. H. Lawrence
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.Henry Ward Beeche
I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little... frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads.Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for the Reagan administration
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.A. C. Benson
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
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt.Unknown
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.Hellen Kelle
I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.Isak Dinesen
What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed.Michelangelo Buonarroti
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.W. Somerset Maugham
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
One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.Sigmond Freud
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.Helen Kelle
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.Katharine Hepburn
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.
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
It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them.George Eliot
