Loveliness Quotes

• Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.

  Pedro Calderon de la Barca

  Nature, Color, Green World

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• Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.

  George Washington Carver

  Good Morning, Beauty, Beautiful

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  A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.

  John Keats

  Life, Beauty, Beautiful

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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• My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

  Michelangelo

  Inspirational, Beauty, Heaven

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• The beautiful spring came; and when Nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Beautiful, Spring, Soul

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.126

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• For lack of attention a thousand forms of loveliness elude us every day.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Beauty, Elude Us, Attention

  Evelyn Underhill, Dana Greene (1988). “Evelyn Underhill: Modern Guide to the Ancient Quest for the Holy”, p.75, SUNY Press

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• Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

  George Jean Nathan

  Music, Art, Mad

  George Jean Nathan, Arnold Leslie Lazarus (1990). “A George Jean Nathan Reader”, p.79, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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• God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

  George MacDonald

  Mold, Fingers

  George MacDonald (1989). “Discovering the character of God”, Bethany House Pub

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• What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, Star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Love, Beauty, Sympathy

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• I am sure it is a great mistake always to know enough to go in when it rains. One may keep snug and dry by such knowledge, but one misses a world of loveliness.

  Adeline Knapp

  Mistake, Rain, Water

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• She is loveliness itself.

  Jane Austen

  Women

  Jane Austen (2009). “Emma”, p.26, Wild Jot Press

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• Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings, And children's faces looking up, Holding wonder like a cup. Life has loveliness to sell, Music like a curve of gold, Scent of pine trees in the rain, Eyes that love you, arms that hold, And for your spirit's still delight, Holy thoughts that star the night. Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Beautiful, Stars

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Spend all you have for loveliness.

  Sara Teasdale

  Beauty

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• The earth was overwhelmed with beauty and indifferent to it, and I went with a heart ready to crack for its unbearable loveliness.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Heart, Earth, Unbearable

  Josephine Winslow Johnson (1934). “Now in November”, p.114, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never Pass into nothingness; but still will keep A bower quiet for us, and a sleep Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.

  John Keats

  Love, Life, Beauty

  Endymion bk. 1, l. 1 (1818)

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• Spend all you have for loveliness, Buy it and never count the cost; For one white singing hour of peace Count many a year of strife well lost, And for a breath of ecstasy Give all you have been, or could be.

  Sara Teasdale

  Beauty, Years, White

  Sara Teasdale (1937). “Collected poems”

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• To reteach a thing its loveliness is the nature of metta. Through lovingkindness, everyone & everything can flower again from within.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Flower, Metta, Loving Kindness

  Sharon Salzberg (2008). “Lovingkindness”, p.22, Shambhala Publications

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• What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

  Geneen Roth

  Motivational, Love Yourself, Self Love

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2012

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• So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

  William T. Vollmann

  Drinking, Book, Reading

  William T Vollmann (2005). “Europe Central”, p.510, Penguin

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• Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Beautiful, Nature

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Twilight, Book, Beer

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.239, OUP Oxford

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• To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Beautiful, Nature, Brother

  Riders on the Earth "Bubble of Blue Air" (1978)

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• beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.

  William Carlos Williams

  Reality, Play, States

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.204, New Directions Publishing

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• Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

  Alfred Sisley

  Artist, Crafts, Should

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• The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

  John Strachan

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

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