Loveliness Quotes - Page 7

• It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness.

  Sydney, Lady Morgan

  Mistake, Sadness, Thinking

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• Which are the people who have influenced us most? Not the ones who thought they did, but those who had not the remotest notion that they were influencing us. In the Christian life, the implicit is never conscious, if it is conscious it ceases to have this unaffected loveliness which is the characteristic of the touch of Jesus. We always know when Jesus is at work because He produces in the commonplace something that is inspiring.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, People

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition”, p.478, Discovery House

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• I'm never more aware of the limitations of language than when I try to describe beauty. Language can create its own loveliness, of course, but it cannot deliver to us the radiance we apprehend in the world, any more than a photograph can capture the stunning swiftness of a hawk or the withering power of a supernova... All that pictures or words can do is gesture beyond themselves toward the fleeting glory that stirs our hearts. So I keep gesturing.

  Scott Sanders

  Heart, Trying, Fleeting

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• Take away human beings from this planet and life would go on, nature would go on in all its loveliness and violence. Where would the problem be? No problem. You created the problem. You are the problem. You identified with "me" and that is the problem. The feeling is in you, not in reality.

  Anthony de Mello

  Reality, Feelings, Goes On

  Anthony De Mello (2011). “Awareness: Conversations with the Masters”, p.80, Image

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• I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic - the loveliness of Nature, the lovability of people, everything that excites us, everything that starts our imagination working, LAUGHTER, gaiety, strength, heroism, love, tenderness, every time we see - however dimly - the godlike that is in everyone and want to kneel in reverence.

  Leopold Stokowski

  Beautiful, Strong, Laughter

  Leopold Stokowski (1943). “Music for all of us”

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• We pray for a generation of girls who will display their wit, their intelligence, their modest charm, their integrity, their loveliness rather than their bodies and their sexual possibilities.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Girl, Integrity, Generations

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• My children, mark me. I pray you. Know! God loves my soul so much that his very life and being depend upon his loving me, whether he would or no. To stop God loving me would be to rob him of his Godhood; for God is love no less than he is truth; as he is good, so is he love as well. It is the absolute truth, as God lives... If anyone would ask me what God is, I should answer: God is love, and so altogether lovely that creatures all with one accord essay to love his loveliness, whether they do so knowingly or unbeknownst, in joy or sorrow.

  Meister Eckhart

  Children, Joy, Soul

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• I hate imitation jewelry, dark lipstick and most of all a shrill voice. This has spoiled many a picture of feminine loveliness.

  Ray Milland

  Hate, Dark, Voice

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• Masculine observers, if the birth-mark did not heighten their admiration, contented themselves with wishing it away, that the world might possess one living specimen of ideal loveliness, without the semblance of a flaw.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Wish, World, Might

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Birthmark (Unabridged): A Dark Romantic Story on Obsession with Human Perfection From the Renowned American Author of “The Scarlet Letter”, “The House with the Seven Gables” & “Twice-Told Tales” (Including Biography)”, p.76, e-artnow

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• And since all this loveliness can not be Heaven, I know in my heart it is June.

  Abba Louisa Goold Woolson

  Summer, Heart, June

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• Look at that sea, girls--all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Girl, Sea, Vision

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2004). “Anne of Green Gables”, p.354, 1st World Publishing

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• If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spring, Flower, Rose

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• I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Beautiful, Memories, Hate

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• ... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Mistake, Reading, Men

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• you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them all, or numb them into dense, leaden regret, but you can't kill love itself. love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever. every act of love, every moment of the heart reaching out, is a part of the universal good: it's a part of God, or what we call God, and it can never die.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Regret, Hate, Love You

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• I care to live only to entice people to look at Nature’s loveliness.

  John Muir

  People, Looks, Care

  John Muir, Terry Gifford (1996). “John Muir: His Life and Letters and Other Writings”, p.207, The Mountaineers Books

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• Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don't know it, are asleep. They're born asleep, they live asleep, they marry in their sleep, they breed children in their sleep, they die in their sleep without ever waking up. They never understand the loveliness and the beauty of this thing that we call human existence.

  Anthony de Mello

  Life, Children, Learning

  "Approaching God : How to Pray". Book by Steve Brown (p. 94), 1995.

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• Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.

  Theodore Parker

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Theodore Parker “Works”

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• Warriors are poets and poems and all the loveliness here in the worlds.

  Amiri Baraka

  Warrior, World, Poet

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• It seems so much easier in these days to live morally than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Years, Sin, Hours

  Evelyn Underhill (2009). “The Grey World”, p.195, Scriptoria Books

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• I hated the mountains and the hills, the rivers and the rain. I hated the sunsets of whatever colour, I hated its beauty and its magic and the secret I would never know. I hated its indifference and the cruelty which was part of its loveliness. Above all I hated her. For she belonged to the magic and the loveliness. She had left me thirsty and all my life would be thirst and longing for what I had lost before I found it.

  Jean Rhys

  Rain, Sunset, Rivers

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• Sometimes it is necessary To reteach a thing its loveliness

  Galway Kinnell

  Sometimes

  Galway Kinnell (2016). “Three Books”, p.95, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No pen, no words, no image can express to you the loveliness of my only, only Lord Jesus.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Lord, Pens

  Samuel Rutherford (1867). “Letters of the Rev. Samuel Rutherford”, p.344

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• Cherish your visions. Cherish your ideals. Cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. For out of them will grow all delightful conditions, all heavenly environment, of these, if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built.

  James Allen

  Love, Inspirational, Beauty

  Oldiees Publishing, James Allen (2015). “The Book of Inspiration: As a Man Thinketh - AUDIO EDITION OF SELF IMPROVEMENT IDEAS & INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES FOR PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT”, p.16, Oldiees Publishing

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• It is precisely because we resist the darkness in ourselves that we miss the depths of the loveliness, beauty, brilliance, creativity, and joy that lie at our core.

  Thomas Moore

  Lying, Creativity, Joy

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