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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Let us not mince words: the marvelous is always beautiful, anything marvelous is beautiful, in fact only the marvelous is beautiful.

  Andre Breton

  Facts, Marvelous

  "Manifestoes of Surrealism". Book by André Breton, 1969.

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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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• Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  Henry Miller

  Music, Beauty, Life And Love

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• I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

  Terry Pratchett

  Life, Encouraging, Creativity

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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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• How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Book, Writing

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.8, Penguin

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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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• We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

  e. e. cummings

  Inspirational, Life, Trust

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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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• My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they believe it, and they will be. So I never thought I was unattractive. But I was never one of the girls at school who had lots of boyfriends.

  Emily Mortimer

  Beauty, Girl, Children

  "Woman on the verge". Interview with Stephanie Merritt, www.theguardian.com. December 2, 2001.

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• One of the most wonderful memories in my life was when I sang at the Opera House in Sydney. I will never forget that. It is one of the most beautiful Houses I have ever sung in my life.

  Nana Mouskouri

  Memories, House, Opera

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• The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense.

  Pablo Picasso

  Life, Motivational, Art

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