„Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.“

„Think of all the beauty that you left behind you.
You can take it if you want it, and then let it go.“

—  Zooey Deschanel American actress, musician, and singer-songwriter 1980

"This Is Not a Test".
She & Him : Volume One (2008)
Context: For those of you who thought you'd be forgotten,
The friends you've made will try their best, to make it so.
Think of all the beauty that you left behind you.
You can take it if you want it, and then let it go.

„I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.“

—  Drew Barrymore American actress, director and producer 1975

„I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.“

—  Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

„With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful.
Strive to be happy.“

—  Max Ehrmann American writer, poet, and attorney 1872 - 1945

Source: Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life

„I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. Look at these things, then you find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance. A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!“

—  Anne Frank victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary 1929 - 1945

7 May 1944
(1942 - 1944)
Original: (nl) [Ik vind], dat er nog altijd iets moois overblijft, aan de natuur, de zonneschijn, de vrijheid, aan jezelf, daar heb je wat aan. Kijk daarnaar, dan vind je jezelf weer en God, dan word je evenwichtig. En wie gelukkig is, zal ook anderen gelukkig maken, wie moed en vertrouwen heeft, zal nooit in de ellende ondergaan!
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

„I can't think of anything to write about, I'm just walking around here between the lines, under the light of your eyes, in the breadth of your mouth as in a beautiful happy day, which remains beautiful and happy, even when the head is sick and tired.“

—  Franz Kafka, book Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

„I think magic is very related to happiness. So it is not there all the time, but there are beautiful moments of magic in everyone's life.“

—  Penélope Cruz Spanish actress 1974

Cinema.com interview (2001)

„You are Beautiful when you are happy“

—  Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

Source: An Ideal Husband

„Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.“

—  Christopher Hitchens British American author and journalist 1949 - 2011

Christopher Hitchens vs. William Dembski, 18/11/2010 ( closing remarks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwgYYxfpPC0)
2010s, 2010
Context: When Socrates was sentenced to death, for his philosophical investigations and his blasphemy for challenging the Gods of the city and he accepted his death. He did say "well, if we're lucky perhaps I'll be able to hold a conversation with other great thinkers and philosophers and doubters too", in other words that the discussion about what is good, what is beautiful, what is noble and what is pure and what is true can always go on. Why is that important, why would I like to do that? Because that is the only conversation worth having. And whether it goes on or not after I die, I don't know, but I do know that it is the conversation I want to have while I am still alive. Which means that for me, the offer of certainty, the offer of complete security, the offer of an impermeable faith that can't give way, is an offer of something not worth having. I want to live my life taking the risk all the time that I don't know anything like enough yet. That I haven't understood enough, that I can't know enough, that I'm always hungrily operating on the margins of a potentially great harvest of future knowledge and wisdom. I wouldn't have it any other way. And I urge you to look at those of you that tell you (at your age) that that you are dead until you believe as they do. (What a terrible thing to be telling to children.) And that you can only live by accepting an absolute authority. Don't think of that as a gift, think of it as a poison chalice. Push it aside no matter how tempting it is. Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.

„Beautiful wreck! for still thy face,
Though changed, is very fair;
Like beauty's moonlight, left to shew
Her morning sun was there.“

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

The Change from The London Literary Gazette (16th February 1828)
The Vow of the Peacock (1835)

„You don't appreciate home until you leave it and, let me tell you, you can't appreciate life till you've almost left it! Some people hope and die with their song still in them. I used to think that happiness resulted when my earnings matched my yearnings! But not anymore!“

—  Patsy Cline American country music singer 1932 - 1963

To her mother following the 1961 car accident
[Nassour, Ellis, Patsy Cline, 1980, unidentified edition, unidentified pages]

„Malebranche would have it that not a soul is left; we humbly think that there still are hearts.“

—  Edmond Rostand, Chantecler

Malebranche dirait qu’il n’y a plus une âme:
Nous pensons humblement qu’il reste encor des cœurs.
Prelude
Chantecler (1910)

„What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?“

—  Aldous Huxley, book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

„Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.“

—  Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy

Source: Vampire Academy

„"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child," says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.“

—  L. Frank Baum, book The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1902)

„Beauty should be around the beautiful.“

—  Letitia Elizabeth Landon English poet and novelist 1802 - 1838

The London Literary Gazette, 1823

„When you're interested in somebody, and you think they might be interested in you, you should point out all your beauty problems and defects right away, rather than take a chance they won't notice them... On the other hand, say you have a purely temporary beauty problem—a new pimple, lackluster hair, no-sleep eyes, five extra pounds around the middle. Still, whatever it is, you should point it out... If you don't point out these things they might think that your temporary beauty problem is a permanent beauty problem... If they really do like you for yourself, they'll be willing to use their imagination to think of what you must look like without your temporary beauty problem.“

—  Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987

Source: 1975, Ch. 4: Beauty

„and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.“

—  Ruskin Bond British Indian writer 1934

Source: Scenes from a Writer's Life

„Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.“

—  Jean Rhys, book Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight