I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.
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I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.
My hope is that witnessing the beautiful harmony created by merging different musical melodies will help people realize the beauty in our own differences.
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.
Technique does not constitute art. Nor is it a vague, fuzzy romantic quality known as ‘beauty,’ remote from the realities of everyday life. It is the depth and intensity of an artist’s experience that are the first importance in art.
The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.
Drag has always inspired people to come together to be joyous and fight for what matters. If we can do it through beauty and positivity and lip-syncing our favorite pop songs, then let's do it.
Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear
There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
I don't think tragic situations are necessarily devoid of beauty.
Always be on the lookout for the presence of wonder.
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
The preciousness of life and the changes of weather and the beauty of seasons - all those things have always sort of dazzled me.
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.
Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.
The best colour in the whole world is the one that looks good on you.
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