Beautiful Quotes
The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.Hellen Kelle
A poet is an unhappy being whose heart it torn by secret sufferings, but whose lips are so strangely formed that when the sighs and the cries escape them, they sound like beautiful music... and then people crowd about the poet and say to him: Sing for us soon again; that is as much as to say. May new sufferings torment your soul.Soren Kierkegaard
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.James F. Byrnes
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
Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 27 - 04
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.Socrates, Crito, " (Plato)
It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.Diane Ackerman
Yer beautiful in yer wrath! I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love.John Wayne, (as Genghis Kahn to Susan Hayward in the move The Conqueror) 1956
The great tragedy of science - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.T. H. Buxley
Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.Don Miguel Ruiz
The scenery in the play was beautiful, but the actors got in front of it.Alexander Woollcott
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.A. C. Benson
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time - Beautiful?E. M. Forster, "A Room with a View".
We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.Kahlil Gibran
The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.J. K. Rowling
When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.W. Somerset Maugham
I like a beautiful song that tells you terrible things. We all like bad news out of a pretty mouth.Tom Waits, Blood Money interviews
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".
What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.Susan Sontag
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
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt.Unknown
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.Sophia Loren
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
Every answer asks a more beautiful question.E e cummings
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.Friedrich Nietzsche
One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.Sigmond Freud
Keep your faith in all beautiful things in the sun when it is hidden, in the Spring when it is gone.Roy R. Gilson
If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.Kahlil Gibran
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
Put even the plainest woman into a beautiful dress and unconsciously she will try to live up to it.Lady Duff - Gordon
The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'Dorothy Parke
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
Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.Alphonse Ka
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.Katharine Hepburn
What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.Napoleon Bonaparte, 1802