Beautiful Quotes
Develop interest in life as you see it in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.Henry Mille
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.Henry Ward Beeche
Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.Roy R. Gilson
The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003
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 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
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
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.Diane Ackerman
Everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing.Mother Theresa
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
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.Sloan Wilson
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
Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you - - Gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.Tennessee Williams
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'Dorothy Parke
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.Michael Talbot
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.
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.Susan Sontag
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".
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.Emerson
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.James F. Byrnes
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.W. Somerset Maugham
Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.Michael Pupin
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
One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.Sigmond Freud
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.A. C. Benson
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
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The great tragedy of science - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.T. H. Buxley
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.John Barrymore
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.Socrates, Crito, " (Plato)
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
What a beautiful morning.John Hancock, to Sam Adams at the Battle of Lexington
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.Unknown
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.Mohandas Ghandi
Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.Alexander Hamilton
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.Eleanor H. Porte
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
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
