
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
As quoted in Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work (2000) by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51
A collection of quotes on the topic of wise, beauty, beauty, peaceful.
“Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
As quoted in Path for Greatness : Spiritualty at Work (2000) by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51
“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.”
“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
“Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.”
Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
“Beauty is the illumination of your soul.”
Source: Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
Variant: Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.”
“No spring, nor summer beauty hath such grace,
As I have seen in one autumnal face.”
No. 9, The Autumnal, line 1
Elegies
Source: The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose
“Follow your inner moonlight, don’t hide the madness.”
Variant: Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
Source: Howl and Other Poems
“The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.”
“Love is not what you do. Love is what you are.”
As quoted in Building A Life Of Value : Timeless Wisdom to Inspire and Empower Us (2005) by Jason A. Merchey, p. 74
“A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
As quoted in The Gospel According to Coco Chanel : Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman (2009) by Karen Karbo
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Variant: The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched... but are felt in the heart.
“Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”
As quoted in The Subtlety of Emotions (2001) by Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, p. 204.
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
“The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.”
Variant: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.
“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”
“Elegance is the only beauty that never fades”
Source: https://totalgirlboss.com/cassea-swim/
“All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.”
Pierre Curie (1923), as translated by Charlotte Kellogg and Vernon Lyman Kellogg, p. 162
“Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.”
As quoted in The Wright Style (1992) by Carla Lind, p. 3
“All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”
Dream Work (1986)
Source: "Wild Geese"
“It's the imperfections that make things beautiful”
Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Source: Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex
“There is nothing more beautiful than a beautiful woman.”
Agnelli: The Rules of the Game, Vanity Fair (1991)
“The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.”
“Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.”
"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995). Sometimes misquoted as "Be in love with your life every minute of it."
Variant: Be in love with your life every detail of it
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.”
“Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.”
Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding
“As long as there's life, there's hope.”
“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”
Source: The Sense of Wonder (1965)
Context: Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
As quoted in The Leader's Digest : Timeless Principles for Team and Organization (2003) by Jim Clemmer, p. 84
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Often attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt without an original source in her writings, for example in the introduction to It Seems to Me : Selected Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt (2001) by Leonard C. Schlup and Donald W. Whisenhunt, p. 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=UeFWjTMcLZYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false. But archivists have not been able to find the quote in any of her writings, see the comment from Ralph Keyes in The Quote Verifier above.
Disputed
“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”
“For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity.”
“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Loose paraphrase of Salviati on Day 3 http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/galileo/dialogue3.html: "For when the sun draws up some vapors here, or warms a plant there, it draws these and warms this as if it had nothing else to do. Even in ripening a bunch of grapes, or perhaps just a single grape, it applies itself so effectively that it could not do more even if the goal of all its affairs were just the ripening of this one grape."
Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632)
“I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.”
“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
Variant: Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.
Source: I Am the Messenger
“The moon lives in the lining of your skin.”
Debajo de tu piel vive la luna.
Oda a la Bella Desnuda (Ode to a Beautiful Nude), from Nuevas Odas Elementales (1956), trans. Nathaniel Tarn in Selected Poems by Pablo Neruda [Houghton Mifflin, 1990, ISBN 0-395-54418-1] (p. 349).
“Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.”
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”
“And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees
and changing leaves.”
Source: To the Lighthouse
“If we surrendered
to earth's intelligence
we could rise up rooted, like trees.”
Source: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”
Source: Betrayed
“Going to the mountains is going home.”
"In the Sierra Forests", San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 3 of the 11 part series "Summering in the Sierra") dated July 1875, published 3 August 1875; reprinted in John Muir: Summering in the Sierra, edited by Robert Engberg (University of Wisconsin Press, 1984) page 79
1870s
Variant: Going to the woods is going home.
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately…”
“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”
Variant: Yes. What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.
Source: Uglies
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”
Source: The Laws of Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life
“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.”
“Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy”
“Crying is for plain women. Pretty women go shopping.”
“I believe in God, only I spell it "Nature."”
As quoted in Quote magazine (14 August 1966)
Source: Truth Against the World: Frank Lloyd Wright Speaks for an Organic Architecture
“With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”
“There are no problems, only solutions.”
"Watching the Wheels"
Lyrics, Double Fantasy (1980)
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius”
“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.”
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
Variant: The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.
Source: A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living
“…if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art.”
from New Music, Outmoded Music, Style and Idea (1946); as quoted in Style and Idea (1985), p. 124
1940s
“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.”
Meditation:Insights and Inspirations (2010) https://books.google.com/books?id=s2ctBgAAQBAJ,
“We see the world not as it is, but as we are.”
Dag Redwing hickory Bluefield
Passage (Vol. III in Tetralogy) (2008), p. 163
The Sharing Knife, Passage (Vol. III in Tetralogy) (2008)
“You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”
"Wild Geese"
Dream Work (1986)
Context: You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.”
"A Defence of Heraldry"
The Defendant (1901)
Context: There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. Men do not quarrel about the meaning of sunsets; they never dispute that the hawthorn says the best and wittiest thing about the spring.
“To live is to not know that one is living”
Diary (20 April, 1930), quoted in Afinado desconcerto (2002), p. 262
Context: Sometimes I start looking at the mirror and examining myself, feature by feature: eyes, mouth, shape of the forehead, eyelids curve, the face line... And this vulgar and hideous-looking, grotesque and miserable amalgam, would it know how to do verses? Oh, no! There is something else … but what? After all, why think? To live is to not know that one is living... Why don't I forget that I am living... to live?
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ”
“Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.”
“Nature does not hurry yet it accomplishes everything.”
“The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.”
Source: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Business_In_Simple_Language/aiXfDwAAQBAJ