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• Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Running, Dream, Moving

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.25, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• When you see a person, do you just concentrate on their looks? It's just a first impression. Then there's someone who doesn't catch your eye immediately, but you talk to them and they become the most beautiful thing in the world. The greatest actors aren't what you would call beautiful sex symbols.

  Brad Pitt

  Beautiful, Sex, Eye

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• It seems like there are always gatekeepers. People between you and the people who are moved by your work. They often make a beautiful thing creepy.

  John Lurie

  Beautiful, People, Creepy

  "Q&A: John Lurie and The Invention of Animals". Interview with Joe Keohane, www.esquire.com. January 24, 2014.

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• The sun is perfect and you woke this morning. You have enough language in your mouth to be understood. You have a name, and someone wants to call it. Five fingers on your hand and someone wants to hold it. If we just start there, every beautiful thing that has and will ever exist is possible. If we start there, everything, for a moment, is right in the world.

  Warsan Shire

  Beautiful, Morning, Hands

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• Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

  Immanuel Kant

  Beautiful, Art, Doe

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• She adored all beautiful things in their every curve and fragrance, so that they became part of her. Day by day, she gathered beauty; had she had no heart (she who was the bosom of womanhood) her thoughts would still have been as lilies, because the good is the beautiful.

  James M. Barrie

  Beautiful, Heart, Curves

  James M. Barrie (2013). “The Little White Bird (Annotated Edition)”, p.59, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.758, GENERAL PRESS

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• I want everything we do to be beautiful. I don't give a damn whether the client understands that that's worth anything, or that the client thinks it's worth anything, or whether it is worth anything. It's worth it to me. It's the way I want to live my life. I want to make beautiful things, even if nobody cares.

  Saul Bass

  Beautiful, Thinking, Giving

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• I'm not a driven businessman, but a driven artist. I never think about money. Beautiful things make money.

  Lord Acton

  Beautiful, Funny Inspirational, Business

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• Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

  Ben Okri

  Beautiful, Secret, Despair

  Ben Okri (2014). “Astonishing the Gods”, Head of Zeus

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• Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich are not rich. Many people you think have it easy worked hard for what they got. Many people who seem to be gliding right along have suffered and are suffering. Many people who appear to you to be old and stupidly saddled down with kids and cars and houses were once every bit as hip and pompous as you.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Believe, Kids, Thinking

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.248, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Beautiful, Mean

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.11, Prestwick House Inc

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• Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

  John Ruskin

  Love, Beauty, Beautiful

  Stones of Venice vol. 1, ch. 2, sec. 17 (1851)

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• Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.

  Jean Cocteau

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Fashion

  New York World Telegram & Sun, August 21, 1960.

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• Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.

  James F. Byrnes

  Friendship, Beautiful, Self

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• The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Jobs, Sex, Reading

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.248, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Beautiful, Littles, Lucky

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• I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

  George Santayana

  Life, Beautiful, Aggravation

  Soliloquies in England and Later Soliloquies "The Irony of Liberalism" (1922)

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• The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

  Andre Gide

  Beautiful, Writing, Madness

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• One of the most beautiful things about Britain, apart from the NHS and the free education, is the British Army.

  John Lydon

  Beautiful, Army, Free Education

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• There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t think there is anything wrong with beauty. It’s just what women think is beautiful can be different. And there can be a beauty in individualism. If there is a wart or a scar, this can be beautiful, in a sense, when you paint it.

  Jenny Saville

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• If you are out there shooting, things will happen for you. If you're not out there, you'll only hear about it.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Shooting, Hearing

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• May your service of love a beautiful thing; want nothing else, fear nothing else and let love be free to become what love truly is.

  Hadewijch

  Love, Beautiful, May

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• I regard a great ad as the most beautiful thing in the world.

  Leo Burnett

  Beautiful, World, Regard

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• Beautiful things happen in your life when you distance yourself from the negative things.

  Zig Ziglar

  Beautiful, Distance, Negative

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 29, 2012

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