Beauty Of The World Quotes - Page 3

• I never changed after that. I sought for nothing in the one great source of change which is humanity. And even in my love and absorption with the beauty of the world, I sought to learn nothing that could be given back to humanity. I drank of the beauty of the world as a vampire drinks. I was satisfied. I was filled to the brim. But I was dead. And I was changeless.

  Anne Rice

  Humanity, Vampire, World

  Anne Rice (2010). “Interview with the Vampire”, p.299, Ballantine Books

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• A creative act enhances the beauty of the world; it gives something to the world, it never takes anything from it. A creative person comes into the world, enhances the beauty of the world - a song here, a painting there. He makes the world dance better, enjoy better, love better, meditate better.

  Rajneesh

  Song, Love Is, Giving

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• Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you’ve got to get out and see God’s beauty of the world.

  Michael Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

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• Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.

  Simone Weil

  Beauty, Love Is, Sight

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• The open heart sees, feels and absorbs the beauty of the world.

  Sonia Choquette

  Heart, World, Feels

  Sonia Choquette (2009). “The Answer Is Simple...: Love Yourself, Live Your Spirit!: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.109, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Men nowhere, east or west, live yet a natural life, round which the vine clings, and which the elm willingly shadows. Man would desecrate it by his touch, and so the beauty of the world remains veiled to him. He needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized, on the soil of earth.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beauty, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.269, Xist Publishing

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• This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but don't create attachments. Reflect people, reflect the beauties of the world - and there are so many. But don't cling. The clinging mind loses its mirrorhood. And mirrorhood is Buddhahood. To keep that quality of mirroring continuously fresh is to remain young, is to remain pure, is to remain innocent. Know, but don't create knowledge. Love, but don't create desire. Live, live beautifully, live utterly, abandon yourself in the moment. But don't look back. This is the art of non-attachment.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Attachment, World Love

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From I to Q”

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• The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Beauty, Nature, World

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• Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Real, Ambition

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.388, Bantam

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• The war made me poignantly aware of the beauty of the world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  War, World, Christianity

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• All the beauty of the world, 'tis but skin deep.

  Ralph Venning

  Beauty, Skins, World

  Ralph Venning (1652). “Mysteries and revelations: Or, The explication and application of several extra-essential and borrowed names, allusions, and metaphors in the Scripture”

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• ‎"Does all the beauty of the world stop when you die?" "No," said the Old Oak; "it will last much longer - longer than I can even think of." "Well, then," said the little May-fly, "we have the same time to live; only we reckon differently.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Thinking, Doe, World

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• I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls.

  Booth Tarkington

  Spiritual, Men, Civilization

  Newton Booth Tarkington (2015). “The Magnificent Ambersons”, p.161, Booklassic

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• Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

  Edward Carpenter

  Women, Mind, World

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• Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his wife and son, who, very distant at first, gradually come closer and closer, till lips and book and head are clearly before him, though still lovely and unfamiliar from the intensity of his isolation and the waste of ages and the perishing of the stars, and finally putting his pipe in his pocket and bending his magnificent head before her—who will blame him if he does homage to the beauty of the world?

  Virginia Woolf

  Stars, Hero, Book

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “To the Lighthouse”, p.28, Virginia Woolf

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• It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Men, Giving

  Ansel Adams, Mary Street Alinder (2017). “Ansel Adams: An Autobiography”, p.238, Hachette UK

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• While I am here I would like to experience as many of the beauties of the world as possible and help others to do the same.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Helping Others, World

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• As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.

  Ansel Adams

  Spiritual, Emotional, Lakes

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• When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.

  Simone Weil

  Hurt, Pain, Tired

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• I hate and fear 'science' because of my conviction that, for long to come if not for ever, it will be the remorseless enemy of mankind. I see it destroying all simplicity and gentleness of life, all the beauty of the world; I see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization; I see it darkening men's minds and hardening their hearts.

  George Gissing

  Hate, Heart, Men

  George Gissing (2008). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.253, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Those beliefs about the essential goodness or beauty of the world are fundamentally paper-thin bullshit. There's not an essential belief that isn't a contingent belief. It could all be destroyed in a second, at any second. And I have an issue with that.

  Zadie Smith

  Issues, Bullshit, Essentials

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The great unrequited love tears open your heart to the beauty of the world, its small rivers and upland meadows. It also makes you kinder to the next hundred thousand persons who cross your path.

  Garrison Keillor

  Love, Heart, Rivers

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• The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Eye

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.105, OUP Oxford

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• What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Travel, Home

  Leonardo da Vinci (2008). “Notebooks”, p.207, OUP Oxford

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• Of pure poetry there are two kinds, that which mirrors the beauty of the world in which our bodies are, and that which builds the more mysterious kingdoms where geography ends and fairyland begins, with gods and heroes at war, and the sirens singing still, and Alph going down to the darkness from Xanadu.

  Lord Dunsany

  War, Hero, Two

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