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• For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

  John Ridley

  Beautiful, Events, Horrific

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is godlike ever to think on something beautiful and on something new.

  Democritus

  Happiness, Beautiful, Thinking

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• Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something beautiful when I run. I like to make people stop and say, 'I've never seen anyone run like that before.' It's more than just a race, it's a style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Motivational, Beautiful, Running

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• Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister.

  Thorstein Veblen

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Respect

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• This peace is not the absence of anything. Real peace is the presence of something beautiful. Both peace and the thirst for it have been in the heart of every human being in every century and every civilization.

  Prem Rawat

  Beautiful, Real, Heart

  Address to faculty, students and guests at Harvard University's Sanders Theater, August 2004.

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• I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what.

  Lady Gaga

  Beautiful, Trying, Matter

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• We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Encouraging, Beautiful, Storm

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• We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.

  Ville Valo

  Beautiful, Kids, Years

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• One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful even if it is only a floating ash.

  Norman Maclean

  Beautiful, Watches, Floating

  Norman Maclean, Barry Moser (1989). “A River Runs Through It”, p.68, University of Chicago Press

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• If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.

  Sylvia Plath

  Beautiful, Moon, Impression

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.45, Faber & Faber

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• You must write for yourself, above all. That is your only hope of creating something beautiful.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Beautiful, Writing, Creating

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• Sometimes we complain, but there is something beautiful about waking up before everyone to get better at what we love.

  Missy Franklin

  Beautiful, Motivation, Get Better

  Twitter post from Jan 06, 2013

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• To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God.

  Mother Teresa

  Beautiful, Offering, Volunteer

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• Part of being a revolutionary is creating a vision that is more humane. That is more fun, too. That is more loving. It's really working to create something beautiful.

  Assata Shakur

  Beautiful, Fun, Creating

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• Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Beautiful, Wall, Break

  "Poet of the Arab world" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. June 7, 2002.

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• And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Dark

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.113, A&C Black

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• Ballet is not just movement, not simply abstract. It's something beautiful. Sometimes there's this feeling in the movement that makes me want to cry.

  Nina Ananiashvili

  Beautiful, Ballet, Feelings

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• There's just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you're special.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Beautiful, Believe, Snow

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home: A Novel”, p.31, Dial Press

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• Writing is not like dancing or modeling; it's not something where-if you missed it by age 19-you're finished. It's never too late. Your writing will only get better as you get older and wiser. If you write something beautiful and important, and the right person somehow discovers it, they will clear room for you on the bookshelves of the world-at any age. At least try.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Beautiful, Writing, Dancing

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• When something in life occurs that is troubling, we are supposed to not dwell on the thing itself. Instead, the focus should be on our obligation to turn this bad thing into something beautiful. It's not easy. But, if you focus your creative energy away from self-torture and onto ‘how you can turn this into something beautiful’ pretty remarkable things start to happen.

  Matt Smith

  Beautiful, Self, Focus

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• Being a creator of a song I get to take all these broken fragments of failure and chaos and weave together something beautiful and meaningful. Decay. Death. Pain. Fall. And if God is a songwriter then these fallen leaves of mine can be redeemed

  Jon Foreman

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Song

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• We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Animal, Venture

  Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Parts of Animals”, p.27, Aeterna Press

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• There is something beautiful about a billion stars held steady by a God who knows what He is doing.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Stars, Billions

  Donald Miller (2012). “Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality”, p.100, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Criticizing people, winding them up, making idiots of them or fooling them doesn't make people with autism laugh. What makes us smile from the inside is seeing something beautiful, or a memory makes us laugh. This generally happens when there's nobody watching us. And at night, on our own, we might burst out laughing underneath the duvet, or roar with later in an empty room ... When we don't need to think about other people or anything else, that's when we wear our aural expressions.

  Naoki Higashida

  Beautiful, Memories, Night

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• Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Beautiful, Women

  Helen Keller (2009). “The Story of My Life: With Her Letters and a Supplementary Account of Her Education”, p.544, The Floating Press

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