Beautiful Quotes - Page 12

• I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

  Emile Zola

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Emile Zola “The Complete Rougon-Macquart Cycle (All 20 Unabridged Novels in one volume)”, e-artnow sro

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• I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

  Penelope Lively

  Way, Appearance, Intrigued

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• We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

  H. L. Mencken

  Respect, Religious, Atheist

  Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

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• Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

  Walt Whitman

  Flower, Sunshine, Journey

  Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

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• Compared to dreams, reality can be truly cruel. But it can also come up with beautiful surprises.

  Nujood Ali

  Dream, Reality, Surprise

  Nujood Ali, Delphine Minoui (2010). “I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced”, p.126, Broadway Books

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• Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Life, Faith

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Friendship, Basketball, Thank You

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  One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

  Lewis Carroll

  Inspirational, Life, Giving

  Lewis Carroll, Roger Lancelyn Green (1989). “The Selected Letters of Lewis Carroll”, p.200, Springer

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• The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target--not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.

  Rajneesh

  Inspirational, Spiritual, House

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• We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

  Jimmy Carter

  Dream, America, Differences

  Speech, Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 Oct. 1976

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• The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Truth, Stupid

  Willa Cather (2012). “The Song of the Lark”, p.305, Courier Corporation

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  We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

  Ray Bradbury

  Inspirational, Writing, Tired

  "Zen in the Art of Writing". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1990.

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• Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite - getting something down.

  Julia Cameron

  Life, Art, Creativity

  FaceBook post by Julia Cameron from Jun 13, 2012

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• An open umbrella is just a closed beautiful sky.

  Xavier Forneret

  Sky, Umbrella

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• I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Beauty, Makeup, Your Beautiful

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• Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Letters”

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• I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Great Love, Lucky, Custodians

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Life, Humor

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• Dear Lord, forgive me for all of the times I've compared myself to others. I know that You have hand-picked all of my qualities. Help me to see these things as beautiful reminders of Your great love in creating me as Your daughter. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Daughter, Jesus, Hands

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Mar 05, 2016

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  Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Life, Being Yourself, Bullying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I just embrace all people of all lifestyles and I don't tell them they are bad people. And I say girls are beautiful and girls are sexy and they need to be told that, and if they don't have anyone to tell them that and mean it, I'm gonna tell them that. But I feel like people always wanna define me and I don't wanna be defined.

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Sexy, Mean

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• A beautiful woman is born Queen of men and women both, as Mary Stuart was born Queen of Scots, whether men or women.

  Herman Melville

  Beauty, Queens, Men

  Herman Melville (2016). “Pierre; or The Ambiguities”, p.33, Herman Melville

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• A sense of solitude is one of the most beautiful things that parents can give a child. It doesn't mean leaving the child alone, but it does mean creating safe spaces where the child can be with other people. It does mean directing their attention to God.

  Henri Nouwen

  Children, Mean, Creating

  Source: archives.wineskins.org

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• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Loyalty, True Friend

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• All music is beautiful.

  Billy Strayhorn

  Music, Jazz, Music Love

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