Beautiful Things Quotes - Page 15

• I've come to learn as an adult that love is a hell of a drug. It's one of the most dangerous things that human beings can have. It's also one of the most beautiful things that human beings can possess because love, on one hand, gives you the ability to care for a human being sometimes more than you would care for yourself. Love, unfortunately, sometimes gives you the ability to forgive somebody and blind yourself to the truth.

  Trevor Noah

  Beautiful, Love Is, Hands

  "Trevor Noah Says He Grew Up 'In The Shadow Of A Giant' (His Mom)". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 22, 2016.

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• I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and your allies drawn away. I will see you as alone and friendless and wretched as am I; and then you may live as long as you like, in some dark and lonely corner of the earth, and I shall call myself content. -Lien, Albino Celestial (Dragon)

  Naomi Novik

  Beautiful, Lonely, Home

  Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.674, Del Rey

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• Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself.

  Aristotle

  Beautiful, Wise, Lying

  Aristotle (2015). “The Aristotle Collection [50 Books]”, Catholic Way Publishing

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• A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a journey beginning. But a well-worn book also has its pleasures, the soft caress and give of the paper's edges, the comfort, like an old shawl, of an oft-read story.

  Lewis Buzbee

  Beautiful, Book, Journey

  Lewis Buzbee (2010). “The Haunting of Charles Dickens”, p.226, Macmillan

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• The most beautiful things in the creating of the child are his "mistakes." The more a child's work is full of these individual mistakes the more wonderful it is. And the more a teacher removes them from the child's work the duller, more desolate and impersonal it becomes.

  Franz Cizek

  Beautiful, Teacher, Children

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• It's hard to explain. It's a love that I never knew existed until I had my first son. Basically what I'm saying is it's the most beautiful thing in the world. It's the biggest blessing I ever had in my life.

  DJ Khaled

  Beautiful, Son, Blessing

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Creative vision creates art" - he motioned around the gallery - "that shows the rest of the world a new angle. That's beautiful thing." "Or some sort of madness", she said.

  Melissa Marr

  Beautiful, Art, Creative

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• I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under houses and trees and stones, and shadow at the back of people's eyes and smiles, and shadow, miles and miles and miles of it, on the night side of the earth.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Beautiful, Moving

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.75, Hamilton Books

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• Being skeptical is part of my job, to question every amazing achievement. That's always there. But I am also capable of turning down the cynicism. The basic idea of sports, the fairness, the competition, remains a beautiful thing.

  Travis Tygart

  Beautiful, Sports, Achievement

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.

  Krystian Zimerman

  Beautiful, Piano, Important

  "Steinways" by George Wright, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2003.

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• If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

  Michelangelo

  Love, Beautiful, Believe

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• You'd think that it was really hard for me to turn into North Carolina prostitute, but I didn't think of her like that. I just thought there were a lot of similarities. She loves art and she loves beautiful things, and in that regard, she's a girl, I'm a girl. We love beautiful things, we want adventure, we just want to be loved. She just really wants a family and to be safe. I think everyone wants that. I just came from it from that point of view rather than, "Oh, this girl is so different from me. How on Earth am I going to play her?"

  Ana Mulvoy-Ten

  Beautiful, Girl, Art

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age--the only perfectly beautiful things on earth--joyous, innocent, half divine--useless, say they who are wiser than God.

  Ouida

  Beautiful, Flower, Butterfly

  Ouida (2016). “Bébée, or Two Little Wooden Shoes”, p.48, Ouida

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• I love beautiful things; I like having nice clothes, and I can appreciate why other people do - but I've also started to learn more about the impact of what we buy: how things are made, how much you buy and the quality of everything.

  Lily Cole

  Beautiful, Nice, Love Is

  "Vivienne Westwood vs Lily Cole". Interview with Bertie Brandes, www.dazeddigital.com. December 16, 2013.

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• She went away, she cut me like a knife Hello beautiful thing, maybe you could save my life In just a glance, down here on magic street Loves a fool's dance And I ain't got much sense, but I still got my feet.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Beautiful, Cutting, Knives

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• I somehow always have this idea that as soon as I can get through this work that's piled up ahead of me, I'll really write a beautiful thing. But I never do. I always have the idea that someday, somehow, I'll be living a beautiful life.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Beautiful, Writing, Ideas

  "The Ghost in the Little House". Book by William V. Holtz. Chapter 8, 1993.

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• Virtue is a beautiful thing in woman when they don't go about with it like a child with a drum making all sorts of noise with it.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Beautiful, Children, Noise

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• The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs.

  Albert Einstein

  Beautiful, Art, Community

  "The World as I See It". Book by Albert Einstein (p. 44), 1931.

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• It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness or affectionate feeling, the memory of the dead comes over it most powerfully and irresistibly. It would seem almost as though our better thoughts and sympathies were charms, in virtue of which the soul is enabled to hold some vague and mysterious intercourse with the spirits of those whom we loved in life. Alas! how often and how long may these patient angels hover around us, watching for the spell which is so soon forgotten!

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Death, Memories

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• What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Beautiful, Memories, Diaries

  Eugene O'Neill (1932). “Nine Plays”

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• Concerts are never real music, you have to give up the idea of hearing in them all the most beautiful things of art.

  Frederic Chopin

  Beautiful, Art, Giving Up

  "Chopin: Pianist and Teacher: As Seen by His Pupils". Book by Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger, 1986.

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• We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they are among the most beautiful things we have.

  David Gelernter

  Beautiful, Book, Information

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• The spontaneous is the most beautiful thing that can appear in a picture, but nothing in art appears less spontaneously than that.

  Jeff Wall

  Beautiful, Art, Spontaneity

  Jeff Wall, Museum Moderner Kunst (Austria) (2003). “Jeff Wall: photographs”, Walther Konig

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• A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot. For whatever reason. And it's a beautiful thing, actually. It seems to me like it's a beautiful way to live in the world and to relate to things, with an awareness of temporality.

  Phil Elvrum

  Beautiful, Song, Feel Good

  Interview with Brandon Stosuy, believermag.com. July 1, 2009.

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• All beautiful things bring sadness, nor alone Sweet music, as our wisest Poet spake, Because in us keen longings they awake.

  Richard Chenevix Trench

  Beauty, Beautiful, Sweet

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