Beautiful Quotes - Page 7

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  We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Change, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from May 15, 2013

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• Home life ceases to be free and beautiful as soon as it is founded on borrowing and debt.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Life, Home, Debt Free

  Henrik Ibsen (1965). “A doll's house”, p.31, Рипол Классик

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• Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

  Petrarch

  Beauty, House, Together

  "Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul, Book II". Book by Francesco Petrarca, 1354.

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• It's very easy to be cynical about the hall of fame. But on the other hand, it's really a beautiful thing for someone like me. I dedicated my entire life to this music.

  Tom Petty

  Reality, Hands, Cynical

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• You can't really say what is beautiful about a place, but the image of the place will remain vividly with you.

  Tadao Ando

  Beauty, Beauty Is Skin Deep

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• Love in marriage should be the accomplishment of a beautiful dream, and not, as it too often is, the end.

  Alphonse Karr

  Love, Marriage, Dream

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• I just have beautiful memories of what has happened in my life.

  Persis Khambatta

  Memories, Happened, Beautiful Life

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• I don't wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Life, Work, Writing

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• I'd like to grow up and be beautiful. I know it doesn't matter, but it doesn't hurt.

  Kirsten Dunst

  Beauty, Hurt, Growing Up

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

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• Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

  Oscar Wilde

  Life, Sad, Selfish

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.64, Oscar Wilde

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• Then you develop a kind of critical sense about what you write. You can tell when something is good, but it would be just as good in somebody else's work too. You want to hold out for those things only you can say.

  James Dickey

  Inspirational, Life, Creativity

  "Night Hurdling: Poems, Essays, Conversations, Commencements, and Afterwords".

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• The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• I invent nothing, I rediscover.

  Auguste Rodin

  Life, Art, Business

  "Auguste Rodin: The Man, His Ideas, His Works". Book by Camille Mauclair (p. 60-61), 1905.

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• Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

  Jack Benny

  Sports, Golf, Air

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• To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

  Bono

  Respect, Being Yourself, Civil Rights

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• It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

  Benjamin Britten

  Strength, Music, Beauty

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• To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

  Anatole France

  Life, Business, Knowledge

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

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• Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Life, Writing

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• The sculptor produces the beautiful statue by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed - it is a process of elimination.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Art, Block, Inspirational Life

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1902). “The Philistine”

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• Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

  Henry James

  Summer, Time, Two

  Quoted in Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934)

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• The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

  Elia Kazan

  Life, Writing, Artist

  "The Essentials: 5 Elia Kazan Films You May Not Know". www.indiewire.com. February 22, 2013.

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• A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

  Karl Kraus

  Life, Writing, Answers

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• A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

  Karl Kraus

  Beauty, Women, Ugly

  Karl Kraus, Jonathan McVity (2001). “Dicta and Contradicta”, p.9, University of Illinois Press

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• You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Life, Children, Book

  Twitter post from Apr 21, 2016

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• The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

  Henri Matisse

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  "Artist to Artist : Inspiration and Advice from Visual Artists Past & Present". Book by Clint Brown (p. 62_, 1998.

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