“Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
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“As we grow old… the beauty steals inward.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
“We see the beauty within and cannot say no.”
Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
“You can have your cake and eat it, too.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Nashville Skyline (1969), Lay Lady Lay
“Beauty should be around the beautiful.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
Ninon de L'Enclos (1620–1705) French author, courtesan, freethinker, and patron of the arts
Attributed in Lewis Copeland, Best Quotations for All Occasions (1965), p. 19
Attributed
“All our dreams can come true — if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman
Source: How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life (2004), Ch. 3 : Imagination Unlimited, p. 63; Unsourced variant: All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.
“There is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
John Ruskin (1819–1900) English writer and art critic
Quoted by John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, The Use of Life, chapter IV: "Recreation" (1894).
“There was content, but no container.”
Simon Blackburn (1944) British academic philosopher
Source: Think (1999), Chapter Four, The Self, p. 135
“Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, ups and down, but that’s its beauty.”
Amit Ray (1960) Indian author
World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird (2014) https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KkYtBgAAQBAJ,
“There are things worth fighting for.”
Robert Jordan (1948–2007) American writer
Rand al'Thor
(15 October 1994)
“It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.”
Dejan Stojanovic (1959) poet, writer, and businessman
Words and Beauty http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/words-and-beauty/ <br class="br">From the poems written in English
John Kenneth Galbraith (1908–2006) American economist and diplomat
The New York Times Magazine (9 October 1960)
“Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower.”
Albert Camus (1913–1960) French author and journalist
As quoted in Visions from Earth (2004) by James R. Miller, p. 126
“He speaketh not; and yet there lies
A conversation in his eyes.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
The Hanging of the Crane.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
Hal Borland (1900–1978) American journalist and writer
Sundial of the Seasons, Lippincott, 1964, p. 49
“Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”
Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress
As quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations (1982) by Jonathon Green, p. 340.
“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.”
Richard Bach book The Bridge Across Forever
The Bridge Across Forever (1984)
Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat
The following information is from the following site: http://pt.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talento , the fourth entry, which gives the citation as (( Henry van Dyke quoted in "Handicapped Individuals Services and Training Act: hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Education of the Committee on Education and Labor, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, second session, on HR 6820 … hearing held in St. Paul, Minn., and Loretto, Minn. on September 2, 1982. "-. 223 Page, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Select Education - USGPO, 1982 - 257 pages )) <br class="br">Quoted by Tor Dahl in the document cited https://hdl.handle.net/2027/pur1.32754076335276?urlappend=%3Bseq=229. <br class="br">A very similar quote appears in an essay entitled "Do What You Can" by "Little Home Body" in the The Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated, Volumes 62-63 (August 1876): "The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there but those that sang best" but states "I know not who said those beautiful words" <br class="br">However, the quote may have been misattributed to Henry Van Dyke. In "The Two Vocations or the sisters of mercy at home" by Elizabeth Charles (1858) p.34 the following appears: "'Dear Jean', she said,'the woods would be very silent if no bird sang but those that sing best' " <br class="br">Attributed
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is natures way.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy