Extraordinary Beauty Quotes

• We are being called into realization with great urgency and extraordinary beauty, and oftentimes not without difficulty.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Realization, Difficulty, Urgency

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• Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

  Sandra Brown

  Pay, Fame, Fortune

  Sandra Brown (2013). “French Silk”, p.233, Hachette UK

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• Flowers, cold from the dew, And autumn's approaching breath, I pluck for the warm, luxuriant braids, Which haven't faded yet. In their nights, fragrantly resinous, Entwined with delightful mystery, They will breathe in her springlike Extraordinary beauty. But in a whirlwind of sound and fire, From her shing head they will flutter And fall—and before her They will die, faintly fragrant still. And, impelled by faithful longing, My obedient gaze will feast upon them— With a reverent hand, Love will gather their rotting remains.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Flower, Fall, Autumn

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• Surely education has no meaning unless it helps you understand the vast experience of life with all its subtleties, with its extraordinary beauty, its sorrows and joys. You may earn degrees, you may have a series of letters after your name and land a good job, but then what? What is the point of it all if in the process your mind becomes dull, weary, stupid?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Jobs, Stupid, Land

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• My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

  Mary Chapin Carpenter

  Travel, Europe, Age

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• Every one of us gets to find our way, hopefully surrounded by love, but we still have to pick out our own way through the land mines of life. By accepting this and relinquishing control, there's just extraordinary beauty.

  Ali MacGraw

  Life, Beauty, Hope

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• What I can't understand is why you can't see the extraordinary beauty of the idea that life started from nothing - that is such a staggering, elegant, beautiful thing, why would you want to clutter it up with something so messy as a God?

  Richard Dawkins

  Beautiful, Ideas, Want

  "Richard Dawkins: I Can't Be Sure God Does Not Exist". www.telegraph.co.uk. February 24, 2012.

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• I have been photographing our toilet, that glossy enameled receptacle of extraordinary beauty. Here was every sensuous curve of the human figure divine but minus the imperfections. Never did the Greeks reach a more significant consummation to their culture, and it somehow reminded me, in the glory of its chaste convulsions and in its swelling, sweeping, forward movement of finely progressing contours, of the Victory of Samothrace.

  Edward Weston

  Home, Curves, Imperfection

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