“When life narrows, beauty often widens.”
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“The ethic of Reverence for Life is the ethic of Love widened into universality.”
Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher
Epilogue, p. 235 http://books.google.com/books?id=jHuYuLugqBAC&q=%22The+ethic+of+Reverence+for+Life+is+the+ethic+of+Love+widened+into+universality%22&pg=PA235#v=onepage <br class="br">Out of My Life and Thought : An Autobiography (1933)
“The more we narrow the definition of beauty, the more beauty we shut out of our lives.”
Jim C. Hines (1974) American writer
Source: Codex Born
John Ruskin book The Stones of Venice
Volume I, chapter II, section 17.
The Stones of Venice (1853)
Variant: Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.
Context: You were made for enjoyment, and the world was filled with things which you will enjoy, unless you are too proud to be pleased with them, or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn to other account than mere delight. Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless: peacocks and lilies, for instance.
“Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.”
Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian poet and writer
Source: Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God
