Something Beautiful Quotes - Page 8

• Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

  Oscar Niemeyer

  Beautiful, Imagination, Enemy

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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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• Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.

  Amy Lee

  Beautiful, Negative, Outlets

  "Evanescence: Amy Lee Explains the New Songs". VH1 News, September 18, 2006.

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• Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Beautiful, Glasses, Sight

  H. Jackson Brown Jr., Rochelle Pennington (2001). “Highlighted in Yellow: A Short Course In Living Wisely And Choosing Well”, p.102, Harper Collins

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• In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.

  Blaise Pascal

  Beautiful, Heart, Difficult Times

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• I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Beautiful, Song, Sadness

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• Looking closer can make something beautiful

  Cynthia Lord

  Beautiful, Science, Technology

  Cynthia Lord (2013). “Rules”, p.18, Scholastic Inc.

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• To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Beautiful, Reading, Mean

  "Fragments of a Poetics of Fire (A Retrospective Glance at the Lifework of a Master of Books)". Book by Gaston Bachelard edited by Suzanne Bachelard, 1988.

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• I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

  Oscar Wilde

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ugly Things

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  Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

  Sophia Loren

  Beauty, Beautiful, Eye

  "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations". Book by Jonathon Green (p. 340), 1982.

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• There's a way of filming where you can get rid of the vanity and of trying to make something beautiful.

  Jean-Marc Vallee

  Beautiful, Vanity, Trying

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• There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.

  Ed Helms

  Beautiful, Focus, Enough

  "The Office's Ed Helms, Paul Lieberstein on life after Michael Scott". Interview with Alex Fletcher, www.digitalspy.com. September 28, 2011.

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• When I know and accept myself-all my strengths and all my limitations- I am immediately respectful of everyone else because I know they have something beautiful within them that I do not have.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Beautiful, Acceptance, Respectful

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• Make something beautiful before you are dead.

  Steve Roggenbuck

  Beautiful

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• You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.

  Peter Turchi

  Beautiful, Writing, Technique

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• Lord, you are God! You made us. Who better to know how to fix us when we've gone wrong? who better to set us to rights again? Who better to love us through the fire and refine us into something beautiful and useful despite our wrongs?

  Francine Rivers

  Beautiful, Fire, Rights

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• I can find something beautiful in everyone

  Amber Rose

  Beautiful, I Can

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• In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

  George Santayana

  Beauty, Beautiful, Suggestions

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

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• Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Writing

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• I like to make something beautiful when I run ... it's style. It's doing something better than anyone else. It's being creative.

  Steve Prefontaine

  Beautiful, Running, Creative

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• I believe people can have a profound experience by being surrounded by something beautiful - that's what I aim for. My sculpture is about the way you feel when you're standing under it and inside it. It's experiential art.

  Janet Echelman

  Beautiful, Art, Believe

  "Sculptures that engage your heart - and expand your mind". CNN Interview, edition.cnn.com. July 3, 2011.

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• Baseball is the slow creation of something beautiful. It is the almost boringly paced accumulation of what seems slight or incidental into an opera of bracing suspense. The game will threaten never to end, until suddenly it forces you to marvel at how it came to be where it is and to wonder at how far it might go. It’s the drowsy metamorphosis of the dull into the indescribable.

  Joshua Ferris

  Beautiful, Baseball, Games

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• There's something beautiful about keeping certain aspects of your life hidden. Maybe people and clouds are beautiful because you can't see everything.

  Kazuya Kamenashi

  Life, Beautiful, Clouds

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• There is something beautiful in you seeking freedom.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Beautiful, Love Yourself, Seeking

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• God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems especially efficient at using what we endure to mold our character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.

  Frank Peretti

  Beautiful, Pain, Character

  Frank E. Peretti (2003). “No More Bullies: For Those Who Wound or Are Wounded”, p.179, Thomas Nelson

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