Beautiful Quotes

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

What a beautiful morning.

John Hancock, to Sam Adams at the Battle of Lexington

It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

Oscar Wilde

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

I have deep faith that the principle of the universe will be beautiful and simple.

Albert Einstein

Beauty is handed out as undemocratically as inherited peerages, and beautiful people have done nothing to deserve their astonishing reward.

John Mortimer, The Observer (1999)

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Henry James

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

To God all things are beautiful, good, and right human beings, on the other hand, deem some things right and others wrong. It would not be better if things happened to people just as they wish.

Heraclitus

Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.

Anon.

The most beautiful thing to experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of life, art and science.

Michael Talbot

Truth is beautiful and divine no matter how humble its origin.

Michael Pupin

Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.

Kahlil Gibran

What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful that the garment with which it is clothed.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - The world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

Henry Mille

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

T. H. Buxley

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Was she so loved because her eyes were so beautiful, or were her eyes so beautiful because she was so loved.

Anzia Yenerska

There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

Henry James

One day the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Sigmond Freud

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Thou art gone from my gaze like a beautiful dream, And I seek thee in vain by the meadow and stream.

George Linley

The two most beautiful words in the English language are ``check enclosed.'

Dorothy Parke

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

Human subtelty will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does Nature, because in her inventions, nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

Leonardo DaVinci

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

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

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.

Pablo Casals