“Beauty was not simply something to behold; it was something one could do.”
Source: The Bluest Eye
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Toni Morrison184
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“Beauty is something animal, the beautiful is something celestial.”
Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French moralist and essayist
David Allen (1945) American productivity consultant and author
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Abu Hamid al-Ghazali (1058–1111) Persian Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic
in The Alchemist of Happiness
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 5
“One must be something in order to do something.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German writer, artist, and politician
Conversations with Eckermann (20 October 1828)
“Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) American pastor
As quoted in Wisdom for Our Time (1961) by James Nelson
