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• The splendor of the rose and the whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of it’s scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Spring, Flower, Simple

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• Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.

  Margaret Cho

  Looks, Ugly, Stalking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• One must learn, if one is to see the beauty in Japan, to like an extraordinarily restrained and delicate loveliness

  Miriam

  Travel, Japan, Delicate

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• Beauty of form affects the mind, but then it must be understood that it is not the mere shell that we admire; we are attracted by the idea that this shell is only a beautiful case adjusted to the shape and value of a still more beautiful pearl within. The perfection of outward loveliness is the soul shining through its crystalline covering.

  Jane Porter

  Beauty, Beautiful, Ideas

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.84

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• What does the Earth Desire? I will put it in just a few short sentences... To be admired in her loveliness, To be tasted in her delicious fruits, To be listened to in her teaching, To be endured in the severity of her discipline, To be cared for as a maternal source from whence we come, a destiny to which we return. It's very simple.

  Thomas Berry

  Teaching, Simple, Destiny

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• Life has loveliness to sell, all beautiful and splendid things, blue waves whitened on a cliff, soaring fire that sways and sings, and children's faces looking up, holding wonder like a cup.

  Sara Teasdale

  Life, Beautiful, Nature

  Sara Teasdale (1917). “Love Songs”

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• For all its rooted loveliness, the world has no continuing city here; it is an outlandish place, a foreign home, a session in via to a better version of itself-and it is our glory to see it so and to thirst until Jerusalem comes home at last. We were given appetites, not to consume the world and forget it, but to taste its goodness and hunger to make it great.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Home, Cities, Lasts

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• It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

  Fred Rogers

  Love, Mistake, Thinking

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.27, Penguin

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• So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk.

  William T. Vollmann

  Drinking, Book, Reading

  William T Vollmann (2005). “Europe Central”, p.510, Penguin

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• The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

  Caryll Houselander

  Heart, Greed, Soul

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• To see the earth as we now see it, small and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the unending night ~ brothers who see now they are truly brothers.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Beautiful, Nature, Brother

  Riders on the Earth "Bubble of Blue Air" (1978)

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• What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

  Geneen Roth

  Motivational, Love Yourself, Self Love

  Twitter post from Jun 21, 2012

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• beauty’ is related not to ‘loveliness’ but to a state in which reality plays a part.

  William Carlos Williams

  Reality, Play, States

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.204, New Directions Publishing

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• At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

  Oscar Wilde

  Twilight, Book, Beer

  Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.239, OUP Oxford

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• The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

  Herman Melville

  Beauty, Heart, Faces

  Herman Melville (1849). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.120

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• The name of Jesus, like a secret charm, awakened similar emotions in the hearts of all the converts, and called immediately into action every feeling of moral loveliness, and every desire of dutiful obedience, which constitute Christian purity.

  John Strachan

  Christian, Jesus, Heart

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• Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

  Alfred Sisley

  Artist, Crafts, Should

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• I wait.  Now the night flows back, the mighty stillness embraces and includes me; I can see the stars again and the world of starlight.  I am twenty miles or more from the nearest fellow human, but instead of loneliness I feel loveliness.  Loveliness and a quiet exultation.

  Edward Abbey

  Stars, Loneliness, Night

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.15, University of Arizona Press

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• There is a loveliness to life that does not fade. Even in the terrors of the night, there is a tendency toward grace that does not fail us.

  Robert Goolrick

  Night, Grace, Doe

  Robert Goolrick (2007). “The End of the World As We Know It: Scenes from a Life”, Algonquin Books

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• Happiness is strange; it comes when you are not seeking it. When you are not making an effort to be happy, then unexpectedly, mysteriously, happiness is there, born of purity, of a loveliness of being.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Effort, Strange, Purity

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1992). “This Matter of Culture”

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• Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Mother, Art, Children

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.965, Delphi Classics

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• There is certainly no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Beauty, Earth, Natural

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• There is to me a daintiness about early flowers that touches me like poetry. They blow out with such a simple loveliness among the common herbs of pastures, and breathe their lives so unobtrusively, like hearts whose beatings are too gentle for the world.

  Nathaniel Parker Willis

  Flower, Heart, Simple

  Nathaniel Parker Willis (1829). “Fugitive Poetry”, p.62

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• I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Wells, Alas

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Classics Reimagined, Edgar Allan Poe”, p.185, Race Point Publishing

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• Remain quiet. Don't feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Quiet, Feels, Behinds

  Yogananda (Paramahansa) (1977). “Self-realization”

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