Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
Things must be felt with the heart.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
Build what you want to see in the world.
Be the trouble you want to see in the world.
Be the compromise you want to see in the world.
The weak can never forgive.
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success for learning; and proper spending for wealth.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.
If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it.
Personal beauty is then first charming and itself, when it dissatisfies us with any end; when it becomes a story without an end; when it suggests gleams and visions, and not earthly satisfactions; when it makes the beholder feel his unworthiness; when he cannot feel his right to it, though he were Caesar; he cannot feel more right to it than to the firmament and the splendors of a sunset.
Fine manners are like personal beauty,--a letter of credit everywhere.
Perhaps there is no gift of nature that requires as little exertion on the part of the owner as personal beauty. I am not certain but that it is this very absence of effort which excites our admiration.
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