Beautiful Things Quotes - Page 22

• When you live with beautiful things you stimulate your mind, you enjoy life a little bit more.

  Ralph Rucci

  Beautiful, Enjoy Life, Mind

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• Fine things in wood are important, not only aesthetically, as oddities or rarities, but because we are becoming aware of the fact that much of our life is spent buying and discarding, and buying again, things that are not good. Some of us long to have at least something, somewhere, which will give us harmony and a sense of durability—I won’t say permanence, but durability—things that, through the years, become more and more beautiful, things we can leave to our children.

  James Krenov

  Life, Beautiful, Children

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• Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

  Ali MacGraw

  Beautiful

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• I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things.

  Graham Coxon

  Beautiful, Shoes, Boots

  Interview with Alex McCann, www.designermagazine.org.

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  But then there are magical, beautiful things in the world, and there's incredible acts of kindness and bravery and in the most unlikely places, and it gives you hope.

  Dave Matthews

  Beautiful, Kindness, Giving

  "Dave Matthews On His Band's 'Unique Sort Of Love Affair'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 8, 2012.

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• In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beauty, Beautiful, God

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• Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Beautiful, Believe, Mean

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• When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space.

  Elaine Scarry

  Beautiful, Space, Tears

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• That's the most beautiful thing that I like about boxing: you can take a punch. The biggest thing about taking a punch is your ego reacts and there's no better spiritual lesson than trying to not pay attention to your ego's reaction.

  David O. Russell

  Beautiful, Sports, Spiritual

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• There are still so many beautiful things to be said in C major.

  Sergei Prokofiev

  Music, Beautiful, Said

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• People who do not see the terrible things therefore do not see the beautiful things, either.

  Klaus Kinski

  Beautiful, People, Terrible

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• I talked to ex-wives of musicians of the '70s for research. They're the funniest people in the world, yet there is this sad, beautiful thing in their eyes that says they've seen more than they could ever possibly tell you

  Kate Hudson

  Beautiful, Eye, People

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• I still get very excited when people say they fall in love. It doesn’t matter how old you are, falling in love is a beautiful thing. And I still act like I did when I was a teenager. I get fluttery and tap dance around. I’m never afraid of making funny faces or being completely goofy.

  Cote de Pablo

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Teenager

  "13 Going on 30". Interview with Lee Hernandez, www.latina.com. October 20, 2009.

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• Every day I strive to get to a place where I'm not effected by the external world, and I don't use the external world to define or tell me who I am. I strive for a state of equanimity and calm and a state of grace, so I can be free of definitions. If you are free, then you can create beautiful things. It's really just shutting out the noise.

  Laurel Holloman

  Beautiful, Who I Am, Grace

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• We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

  Max De Pree

  Life, Beautiful, Healing

  Max De Pree (1987). “Leadership is an Art”, Doubleday Business

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• To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  T. S. Eliot (1986). “The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism: Studies in the Relation of Criticism to Poetry in England”, p.3, Harvard University Press

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• You are who you are and that's the most beautiful thing in the world.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Beautiful, World, Who You Are

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• I love my fans. They’re the most beautiful thing in the entire world for me. Every single thing I do is for them.

  Selena Gomez

  Beautiful, Fans, World

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• Pornography is pornography, what is there to see? Movies are attempting to destroy something that's supposed to be the most beautiful thing a man and a woman can have by making it cheap and common. It's what you don't see that's attractive.

  Nancy Reagan

  Beautiful, Men, Common

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• You make beautiful things, You make beautiful things out of the dust

  Michael Gungor

  Beautiful, Dust

  Song: You Make Beautiful Things, Album: Beautiful Things, 2010

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• It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value. Acquaintance with grief turns out to be one of the more unusual prerequisites of architectural appreciation. We might, quite aside from all other requirements, need to be a little sad before buildings can properly touch us.

  Alain de Botton

  Beautiful, Appreciation, Pain

  Alain de Botton (2007). “The Architecture of Happiness”, p.15, Penguin UK

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• Home is a refuge not only from the world, but a refuge from my worries, my troubles, my concerns. I like beautiful things around me. I like to be beautiful because it delights my eyes and my soul is lifted up.

  Maya Angelou

  Beautiful, Home, Eye

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• The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Sight, Ideas

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

  Harry Seidler

  Beautiful, Hair, Inspirational Business

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• Why hurry over beautiful things? Why not linger and enjoy them?

  Clara Schumann

  Beauty, Beautiful, Why Not

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