925 private quotes tagged beauty

“Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.” — Hans Urs von Balthasar

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“I used to wear a lot of red lipstick, and when I got a pimple, I'd cover it up with eyeliner to turn it into a beauty mark.” — Selma Blair

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“Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!” — Jamie Zawinski

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“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.” — Kinky Friedman

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“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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“Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.” — James Hillman

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“Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake. Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.” — Ani DiFranco

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“I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.” — Edgar Allan Poe

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“Love is the beauty of the soul.” — Saint Augustine

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“Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.” — Godfrey Harold Hardy

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“Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.” — James Caan

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“Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.” — Candice Bergen

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“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.” — Deepak Chopra

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“Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.” — Ashley Smith

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“I don't normally talk about my religion publicly because I don't want people to associate me and my flaws with this beautiful thing.” — Dave Chappelle

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“There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.” — Oscar Wilde

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“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” — John Muir

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“To give pain is the tyranny to make happy, the true empire of beauty.” — Samuel Butler

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“Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble in a statue the marble must be like flesh.” — Victor Hugo

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“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” — Edmund Burke

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“Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!” — Henry David Thoreau

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“It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.” — Aldous Huxley

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“I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.” — John Wooden

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“The ideal and the beautiful are identical the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form hence idea and substance are cognate.” — Victor Hugo

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“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.” — Edmund Burke

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