Beauty Of The World Quotes - Page 4

• Compassion arises naturally as the quivering of the heart in the face of pain, ours and another's. True compassion is not limited by the separateness of pity, nor by the fear of being overwhelmed. When we come to rest in the great heart of compassion, we discover a capacity to bear witness to, suffer with, and hold dear with our own vulnerable heart the sorrows and beauties of the world.

  Jack Kornfield

  Pain, Heart, Compassion

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• Everything you do either adds to the beauty of the world or takes away from it.

  Mother Antonia

  Add, World

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• What a strange power the perception of beauty is! It seems to ebb and flow like some secret tide, independent alike of health and disease, of joy or sorrow. There are times in our lives when we seem to go singing on our way, and when the beauty of the world sets itself like a quiet harmony to the song we uplift.

  A. C. Benson

  Beauty, Uplifting, Song

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• I do not doubt but the majest and beauty of the world are latent
  in any iota of the world;
  I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects,
  vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse than
  I have supposed.

  Walt Whitman

  Weed, Doubt, World

  Walt Whitman (1861). “Leaves of Grass”, p.217

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• This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

  William Shakespeare

  Moving, Angel, Men

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 2, sc. 2, l. [316]

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• True definition of science: the study of the beauty of the world.

  Simone Weil

  World, Definitions, Study

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.258, Routledge

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• To see the beauty of the world is to put your hands on lines that run uninterrupted through life and through death. Touching them is an act of hope, for perhaps someone on the other side, if there is another side, is touching them, too.

  Mark Helprin

  Running, Hands, Touching

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• He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Pain, Flower, Heart

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.268, Pan Macmillan

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• He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

  John Burroughs

  Summer, Winter, World

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.123, Courier Corporation

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• It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Ambition, Suffering, Ambitious

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.24, Lulu.com

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• And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done nothing to deserve it.

  Paul Harding

  Heart, Mean, Confusion

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• I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Children, Believe, Secret

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• If you’re really listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly.

  Andrew Harvey

  Heart, Listening, World

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