925 private quotes tagged beauty

“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” — Confucius

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“There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.” — William Congreve

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“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.” — Rumi

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“The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.” — Walt Whitman

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“Beauty is the greatest seducer of man.” — Paulo Coelho

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“A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.” — Baltasar Gracian

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“It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it.” — Voltaire

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“Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.” — Khalil Gibran

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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.” — Leo Tolstoy

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“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” — Albert Einstein

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“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.” — Ruby Dee

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“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” — Marilyn Monroe

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“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” — Anne Frank

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“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” — Franz Kafka

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“The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.” — Conan O'Brien

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“Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.” — Pablo Picasso

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“Who would not give up wit for power and beauty?” — Mason Cooley

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“Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.” — Jacqueline Bisset

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“I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.” — Janelle Monae

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“Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.” — Donald Knuth

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“Beauty without expression is boring.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.” — Richard Dawkins

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“Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.” — Charles Kingsley

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