 | "Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
- Anne Frank
, Diary of a Young Girl, 1952. |
| "The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw."
- Havelock Ellis
, Impressions and Comments (1914). |
| "The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels."
- Hazrat Inayat Khan
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| "Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
- Henry Miller
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| "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas ?"
- Jean Kerr
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| "I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful."
- John Constable
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| "Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised."
- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
, Meditations. |
| "Order is the shape upon which beauty depends."
- Pearl Buck
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| "Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together."
- Petrarch
, De Remedies. |
| "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
- R. Buckminster Fuller
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