The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched.
They must be felt with the heart
- Hellen Keller
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Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us
or we find it not
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise
- Marcus Aurelius
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People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there light is from within
- Elizabeth Kubler Ross
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If there is light in the soul,
there will be beauty in the person
If there is beauty in the person,
there will be harmony in the house
If there is harmony in the house,
there will be order in the nation
If there is order in the nation,
there will be Peace in the World
- Unknown
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There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion
- Francis Bacon
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Beauty: That power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.
- Ambrose Bierce
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There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me
- John Erskine
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Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant
- Doug Horton
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Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it
- Confucius
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The beauty of empowering others
is that your own power is
not diminished in the process
- Barbara Colorose
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Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty
- Rose Elizabeth Bird
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There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty
- Joseph Addison
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I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty
- John F. Kennedy
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Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age, as your beauty fades,
so will his eyesight
- Phyllis Diller
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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives
- Albert Einstein
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When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong
- Richard Buckminster Fuller
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A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity
and you are the mirror
- Kahlil Gibran
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Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand
- Kahlil Gibran
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Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them
- David Hume
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Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty, a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture
- Bertrand Russell
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Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul
- George Bancroft
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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
- Alphonse Karr
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At the heart of all beauty lies
something inhuman, and these hills,
the softness of the sky, the outline
of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise ... that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd
- Albert Camus
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