925 private quotes tagged beauty

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.” — Dante Alighieri

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“Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.” — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.” — Pablo Neruda

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“There is no personal achievement in being born beautiful.” — Loretta Young

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“Beauty doesn't need ornaments. Softness can't bear the weight of ornaments.” — Munshi Premchand

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“The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor.” — Paul Getty

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“What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!” — H. P. Lovecraft

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“It's a good thing that beauty is only skin deep, or I'd be rotten to the core.” — Phyllis Diller

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“Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.” — William Hazlitt

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“Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.” — John Ruskin

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“Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.” — Jane Austen

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“The architect should strive continually to simplify the ensemble of the rooms should then be carefully considered that comfort and utility may go hand in hand with beauty.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.” — Rose Kennedy

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“Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.” — Langston Hughes

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“Photography records the gamut of feelings written on the human face, the beauty of the earth and skies that man has inherited, and the wealth and confusion man has created. It is a major force in explaining man to man.” — Edward Steichen

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“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.” — Maria Montessori

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“Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light.” — John Ruskin

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“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.” — Brigitte Bardot

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“That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.” — Denis Waitley

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“The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.” — Virginia Woolf

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“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?” — Richard P. Feynman

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“At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist there can only be promise of the coming woman.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Beauty is an ecstasy it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all.” — W. Somerset Maugham

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“Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.” — Matthew Fox

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