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In Search of Beauty |
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As we grow older, we should grow more expert at finding beauty in unexpected places: in the country, in the city, in ordinary human faces. -- C. C. Vyvyan |
Sometimes, in the brightness of an April afternoon, when everything glows, when green seems greener, when roses are beginning to flower, future tasks don't matter and neither do past worries, because you are witnessing such a moment of soul-restoring beauty. -- Author Unknown |
Tell them, dear, that if eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is its own excuse for being. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Life just seems so full of connections. Most of the time we don't even pay attention to the depth of life. We only see flat surfaces. -- Colin Neenan |
For lack of attention, a thousand kinds of beauty elude us every day. -- Evelyn Underhill |
What humbugs we are, we pretend to love beauty and never bother to see the dawn. -- Logan Smith |
Most things possess their own unique kind of beauty, but not everyone sees it. -- Confucius |
Most of us today have lost sight of the fact that, whatever the ups and downs of our limited human experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful. -- Gregory Bateson |
There's something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, spring after winter. The joys of the natural world are available to anyone who places himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky. -- Rachel Carson |
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. -- John Muir |
There's such contingent beauty in life: the open door on summer mornings looking out on green things growing; shadows of time and eternity -- seen in the garden, felt in its walls. -- A. L. Rowse |
If you wish to have a mind at peace and a heart that doesn't harden, Go find a door that opens wide upon a lovely garden. -- Author Unknown |
The least, the softest, the lightest...a breath, a flash, a moment -- have you noticed that the small things bring the best happiness? -- Frederich Nietzsche |
We should hear a little music, read a little poetry, see a fine painting every day of our lives, so that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful that was once implanted in our souls. -- Johann Wolfgang Goethe |
Confronted with the vision of something beautiful, we see something beautiful about ourselves. -- Jeff Cox |
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. -- Rachel Carson |
May you arise each day with a voice whispering in your heart that something good is going to happen to you. |
May you find harmony between your soul and your life. May you know the eternal longing that lies at the heart of time. |
May there be kindness in your gaze when you look within. May you never place walls between the light and yourself. |
May you allow the beauty of the world to gather you, mind you and embrace you in belonging. -- John O'Donahoe |