Beautiful Quotes
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
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.James F. Byrnes
Of all the beautiful truths pertaining to the soul None is more gladdening or fruitful than to know You can regenerate and make yourself what you will.William James
A family is a place where minds come in contact with one another. If these minds love one another the home will be as beautiful as a flower garden. But if these minds get out of harmony with one another it is like a storm that plays havoc with the garden.Buddha
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
What a beautiful morning.John Hancock, to Sam Adams at the Battle of Lexington
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
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 essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.Friedrich Nietzsche
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.Joan Rivers
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 is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.Richard Milhous Nixon
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.James Russell Lowell
Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.George Dennison Prentice
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.Bailey
Do not trust your memory it is a net full of holes the most beautiful prizes slip through it.Georges Duhamel
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.Henry James
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough - Edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.Nicholas Chamfort
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
Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised.Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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
Life is beautiful. Life is sad.Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita
As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.Van Wyck Brooks
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.O. Henry
Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight.Terry Goodkind
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 beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.B. B. King
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.Susan Sontag, Against Interpretation, 1966
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.
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.Kahlil Gibran
The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.Michael Talbot
Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.Luis Cernada
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science.Albert Einstein
Will it not be felt that Virtue, however beautiful, becomes the worst of all attitudes when it is found too feeble to contend with Vice...Marquis de Sade, Justine
