Beautiful Quotes
Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself.Henry Havelock Ellis
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.Eleanor Roosevelt
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
What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you - - The rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.Antoine de Saint - Exupery, The Little Prince
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
She said she usually cried at least once each day not because she was sad, but because the world was so beautiful and life was so short.Brian Andreas
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.Mark A. Overby
Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.I Ching
How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.D. H. Lawrence
Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.Jean Cocteau
To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding with the passing whisper of their wisdom. Some people make the sky more beautiful to gaze upon. They stay in our lives for awhile.Unknown
Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.Henry Ward Beeche
Friendship without self - Interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.James F. Byrnes
Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.Sophia Loren
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.
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
Everything beautiful has its moment, and then passes away.Luis Cernada
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.Helen Kelle
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
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - If I can remember any of the damn things.Dorothy Parke
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.Henry James
It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley Warne
One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any.Emma Albani
It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them.George Eliot
All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful.Mohandas Ghandi
It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.O. Henry
Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is god, just, and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but never less, dazzaling, passionate, and eternal form.Plato
Love is the delightful interval between meeting a beautiful girl and discovering that she looks like a haddock.John Barrymore
The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.Helen Kelle
Power may be justly compared to a great river while kept within its bounds it is both beautiful and useful, but when it overflows its banks, it is then too impetuous to be stemmed it bears down all before it, and brings destruction and desolation wherever it goes.Alexander Hamilton
Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.Katharine Hepburn
As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.A. C. Benson
