Beautiful Quotes

Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuh

I first saw President Reagan as a foot, highly polished brown cordovan wagging merrily on a hassock. I spied it through the door. It was a beautiful foot, sleek. Such casual elegance and clean lines! But not a big foot, not formidable, maybe a little... frail. I imagined cradling it in my arms, protecting it from unsmooth roads.

Peggy Noonan, speechwriter for the Reagan administration

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

May your service of love a beautiful thing want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

Hadewijch of Antwerp

As I make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow.

A. C. Benson

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

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - They must be felt with the heart.

Hellen Kelle

We fear death, yet we long for slumber and beautiful dreams.

Kahlil Gibran

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

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

The best and most beautiful things cannot be seen or even heard, they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Kelle

The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.

B. B. King

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Emerson

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

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

Never let a beautiful woman pick your path for you when there is a man in her line of sight.

Terry Goodkind

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

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

The heads of strong old age are beautiful beyond all grace of youth.

Robinson Jeffers, O Magazine, October 2003

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

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

Opinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

The older I get, the more I feel almost beautiful...

Sharon Olds, Oprah Magazine, May 2004

Life is beautiful. Life is sad.

Vladimir Nabakov, Lolita

Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

Alphonse Ka

Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.

Christine Leefeldt

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

James Russell Lowell

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".

One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt.

Unknown

If indeed you must be candid, be candid beautifully.

Kahlil Gibran

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully.

W. Somerset Maugham

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.

Albert Einstein

I never saw an ugly thing in my life for let the form of an object be what it may - Light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

John Constable

It is my belief, Watson, founded upon my experience, that the lowest and vilest alleys in London do not present a more dreadful record of sin than does the smiling and beautiful countryside.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes in The Copper Beeches

The great tragedy of science - - The slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

Thomas Huxley

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

There are few earthly things more beautiful than a university... a place where those who hate ignorance may strive to know, where those who perceive truth may strive to make others see.

John Masefield