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The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have...

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Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar...

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Why do You thus devise Evil against her?' 'For that She is beautiful, delicate; Therefore.

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Adelaide CrapseyVerse by Adelaide Crapsey

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technologic...

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We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technologic...

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You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneven...

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There is a danger of developing a blanket distaste for modern life which could have its attractions ...

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Alain de BottonHow Proust Can Change Your Life

What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the ...

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Alain de BottonThe Architecture of Happiness

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

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Alain de BottonThe Architecture of Happiness

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive t...

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Alain de BottonThe Architecture of Happiness

[Donald] Keene observed [in a book entitled The Pleasures of Japanese Literature, 1988] that the Jap...

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Alain de BottonThe Architecture of Happiness

A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it wei...

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Beauty is unbearable drives us to despair offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that...

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There is something divine in mindless beauty.

There is something divine in mindless beauty, and Mersault was particularly responsive to it.

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Albert CamusA Happy Death

But a man's beauty represents inner, functional truths: his face shows what he can do. And what is t...

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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that...

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Albert CamusNotebooks 1935-1942

Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard.

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Albert CamusThe Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the uni...

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The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with joy are goodness, beauty, and truth.

It is a special blessing to belong among those who can and may devote their best energies to the con...

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Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living cre...

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Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatu...

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which sta...

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Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through suc...

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Aldo LeopoldA Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, ...

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One can’t have something for nothing. Happiness has got to be paid for. You’re paying for it, Mr. Wa...

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Aldous HuxleyBrave New World

Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whene...

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Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Myst...

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The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away ...

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That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated gli...

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She was proud of her build, which was in accordance with the old Botswana ideas of beauty, and she w...

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What then remains, but well our power to use,And keep good humour still whate’er we lose?And trust m...

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Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

The Nature of This Flower is to bloom.

Horses make a landscape look beautiful.

She got a long pointed nose and big fleshy mouth. Lips look like black plum. Eyes big, glossy. Fever...

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First time I got the full sight of Shug Avery long black body with it black plum nipples, look like ...

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Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

Deep down, nature is inherently peaceful, calm and beautiful. The universe as a whole is perfect. Th...

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Meditation, education and beauty are the three transforming powers that can change individual and th...

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Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.

Mathematics and poetry are the two ways to drink the beauty of truth.

Life may try to knock you down but be persistent with your passions - cultivate grit, resilience, te...

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In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that's the way new leave...

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God is peace, bliss, beauty and truth. Focus your energy on that, life will be like that.

If you love a tree you will be more beautiful than before!

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

Focus your energy on the fragrance and beauty of the petals not on the thorns.

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

Life is a manifestation of the unified field of consciousness. Colors, beauty, pleasure and pain are...

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

Conscious breathing is the best antidote to stress, anxiety and depression.

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

Beauty is the moment when time vanishes. Beauty is the space where eternity arises.

Yoga means addition - addition of energy, strength and beauty to body, mind and soul.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in th...

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Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Beautify your breath – beautify your life.

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Amit RayMindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of every...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Give time, give space to sprout your potential. Awaken the beauty of your heart – the beauty of your...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Do not be victim of life-negative religions. Be respectful to life, love and beauty.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Nonviolence is only for the brave men and women of the world because it requires courage – courage t...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

God wanted to make heaven and the earth is that heaven. Nowhere in the universe there is so much lov...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and aw...

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

Focus your energy on peace, bliss, and beauty. Life will be blissful and the world will be peaceful.

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Amit RayNonviolence: The Transforming Power

When the sunlight hit the trees, all the beauty and wonder come together. Soul unfolds its petals. F...

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Amit RayPeace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity

The job of the United Nations is to grow more flowers, more smiles and more beauty on the earth. Onc...

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Amit RayPeace on the Earth A Nuclear Weapons Free World

Every day, bring some flowers to your life. Every day bring some blessings in someone’s life.

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

A compassionate heart radiates rays of beauty that remove the clouds of million hearts.

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

Beauty is the moment when time vanishes and eternity arises.

Divinity means unfolding and expressing life in new ways. Divinity means radiating peace, bliss and ...

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

Fill the canvas of life with the colors of peace bliss beauty and love.

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

World is a multi-dimensional reality. At lower level it is full with unconsciousness and competitive...

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God, Beauty and Truth are synonymous. Take any one of the three paths and you will reach the goal.

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beauti...

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Amit RayWalking the Path of Compassion

Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without...

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...A mother is the one who fills your heart in the first place. She teaches you the nature of happin...

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Amy TanSaving Fish from Drowning

Women Are Not RosesWomen have no beginningonly continualflows.Though rivers flowwomen are notrivers....

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Women always think that when they have my shoes, my dress , my hairdresser, my make-up, it will all ...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of hersel...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, ...

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Anaïs NinThe Four-Chambered Heart: V3 in Nin's Continuous Novel

...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife...

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Beauty will be convulsive or will not be at all.

Do you know why our poetry today and especially our philosophy are such dead issues? Because they've...

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I have always thought that great artists were those who dared to confer the right of beauty on thing...

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André GideThe Immoralist

Beauty is a sign of intelligence.

I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.

I marvel at everything as if it were new.

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Anna AkhmatovaThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

.. at a certain age we learned to see right through it, and that age is now.

But he told me that most of the time he stayed on the boardwalk, facing the water, just the way we w...

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Anna QuindlenA Short Guide to a Happy Life

This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them cou...

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But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care abou...

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A little girl loves her bird--Why? Because it lives and feels; because it is helpless and harmless? ...

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It is foolish to wish for beauty.  Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care abo...

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[B]eauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds o...

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Anne BrontëThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall

That night we made love "the real way" which we had not yet attemptedalthough married six months.Big...

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The story concerns the reason why we love to fall in love. Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch...

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For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, ...

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