Something Beautiful Quotes - Page 2

• The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

  Ray LaMontagne

  Beautiful, Hurt, Things I Love

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• Trees have about them something beautiful and attractive even to the fancy,
  since they cannot change their places,
  are witnesses of all the changes that take place around them;
  and as some reach a great age, they become, as it were, historical monuments,
  and like ourselves they have a life, growing and passing away,
  --not being inanimate and unvarying like the fields and rivers.
  One sees them passing through various stages,
  and at last step by step approaching death,
  which makes them look still more like ourselves.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Beautiful, Rivers, Tree

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• But what if we took it one step further and made an effort to actually transform our pain into something beautiful? What if we went full out and made an effort to transform other people’s pain into something beautiful?

  Danielle LaPorte

  Beautiful, Pain, People

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• In leaving negativity behind, you find something beautiful.

  Tom DeLonge

  Beautiful, Negativity, Leaving

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• I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. I could have just as easily picked up a knife or a gun, like many of my childhood friends did... most of whom were murdered or put in prison... but I chose not to go that way. I felt that I could somehow subdue these evils by doing something beautiful that people recognize me by, and thus make a whole different life for myself, which has proved to be so.

  Gordon Parks

  Beautiful, Gun, Knives

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• I am closest of all to happiness—although I won’t attempt to define just what it is—when I turn away from the window and am aware, with the edge of my consciousness, that a moment ago I was not here, there was simply the world outside the window, and something beautiful and incomprehensible, something which there is absolutely no need to ‘comprehend,’ existed for a few seconds instead of the usual swarm of thoughts, of which one, like a locomotive, pulls all the others after it, absorbs them all and calls itself ‘I’.

  Victor Pelevin

  Beautiful, World, Usual

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• I try to be nice, I try to respect other people, but over the years I've learned that all this stuff we do is a bunch of crap. That doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Nice, Mean

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• Fiction, I believed, was the transmutation of experiential dross into linguistic gold. Fiction meant taking up whatever the world had abandoned by the road and making something beautiful out of it.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Beautiful, Gold, Fiction

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• My biggest satisfaction is always when I make something beautiful and well-done that I can see on a real man or woman - not only in the glossy magazines.

  Frida Giannini

  Beautiful, Real, Men

  "Frida Giannini: A Fashionable Life". Interview with Anamaria Wilson, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 14, 2011.

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• There's something beautiful about finding one's innermost thoughts in another.

  Olive Schreiner

  Friendship, Beautiful, Findings

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• We're living in world, stars and dust Between heaven 'n all that surrounds us We're travellers here, spirits passing through And the love we give, is all that will endure Just like a rose after the rain Something beautiful remains Tears will leave no stains Time will ease the pain For every life that fades Something beautiful remains

  Tina Turner

  Beautiful, Stars, Pain

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• The most touching thing that anyone can say to me is that I have done something beautiful for the community.

  Santiago Calatrava

  Beautiful, Community, Touching

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• Bad stuff happens.
  Sometimes it makes no sense at all. Sometimes its unfair.
  Sometimes, it just plain sucks.
  Bad stuff happens sometimes.
  Always remember that, but remember that you have to move on somehow. You just pick your head up and stare at something beautiful like the sky, or the ocean, and you move the hell on.

  James Patterson

  Beautiful, Ocean, Moving

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• And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest.

  Cressida Cowell

  Beautiful, Eye, Laughing

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• Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression ? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.

  Zadie Smith

  Beautiful, Clever, Self

  "White knuckle ride". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2000.

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• I think I had a more European outlook about the body and sex. The body is in no way dirty, and sex is something beautiful to give to and share with a lover. It has nothing to do with promiscuity, because I only believe in being in love with one man at a time.

  Dorothy Stratten

  Beautiful, Sex, Believe

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• Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.

  Lester Bangs

  Beautiful, Rocks, Looks

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• There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing. (They hang there, the stars, like notes on a page of music, free-form verse, silent mysteries swirling in the blue like jazz.) And as I lay there, it occurred to me that God is up there somewhere.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Stars, Blue

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.100, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The biggest challenge for any craft person or artist is to accept the constraints of their medium and make something beautiful despite them. That's kind of fun, actually.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Beautiful, Fun, Artist

  "Ayelet Waldman on Acting Your Age". Interview with Tim J Luddy, www.motherjones.com. November, 2009.

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• There's been times when I've been standing in a line at a movie and someone's hit me with something really heavy about someone really close and how our music has helped them get through it. Even in our darkest moments we try and find something beautiful.

  Eddie Vedder

  Beautiful, Trying, Lines

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• There has come to you as your birthright something beautiful and sacred and divine. Never forget that. Your Eternal Father is the Great master of the Universe. He rules over all, but He also will listen to your prayers as His daughter and hear you as you speak with Him. He will answer your prayers. He will not leave you alone.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Daughter, Prayer

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• Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful." Clara said. "Among the wealthy it's the rare skins and furs sold on the black market. With everyone else it's whatever they find clogging the gutters or killed in the housetraps. It al amounts to the same thing, of course, but the rich people feel better knowing they've paid a fortune.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Feel Better, Knowing

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.129, Penguin

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• Everyone wants a bit of something beautiful.

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Want, Bits

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.129, Penguin

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• Make something beautiful of your life.

  Abraham Verghese

  Beautiful

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• The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Movie, Fighting, 80s And 90s

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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