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I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us. — Ansel Adams

Living in the present is the instant perception of beauty and the great delight in it without seeking pleasure from it. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. — Jean Ingelow

Beauty may be the object of liking
great qualities of admiration
good ones of esteem
but love only is the object of love. — Henry Fielding

Most often simplicity defines the true beauty of a great life. — Debasish Mridha

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. — G.K. Chesterton

If you tell an ugly woman that she is beautiful, you offer her the great homage of corrupting the concept of beauty. — Ayn Rand

A great leader never fears criticism and welcomes them with openness and love as if they are the beauty of the journey. — Debasish Mridha

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs. — Francis Bacon

Beauty. We must know for our comfort that Christ was not anointed to this great work of Mediator for lesser sins only, but for the greatest, — Richard Sibbes

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. — Saint Augustine

Great sex and awesome food is what conquered the beast, not beauty. The key to happiness is to fuck like a porn star and cook like a five star chef. — Travis Luedke

She was the reason I started to write but her beauty is kept me writing. — Brandon Villasenor

Live for great hope and the beauty of dreams. — Debasish Mridha

My mom taught me this really great beauty tip. She used to put oil or mayonnaise on the bottom half of her hair before she would shower. — Blake Lively

I am only a literary lizard basking the day away beneath the great sun of Beauty. That's all. — Julian Barnes

Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English
but are great in remembering signs — Karl Lagerfeld

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity. — Emile Zola

The man in her dream would ride up and surprise her on his horse ... saying her beauty pierced such a great place in his heart. — Kaye Gibbons

I have been told that beauty is the great seducer of men. — Paulo Coelho

Only in eternity shall we see the beauty of the soul, and only then shall we realize what great things were accomplished by interior suffering. — Mother Angelica

I've always been given respect because I'm kind of mannish, and I'm not a great beauty. I've never played the coquette card because I'm no good at it. — Martha Wainwright

A great book is a thing of mystery and beauty; it has the power to move you. — Neil Leckman

But beauty is not the only thing that makes a woman attractive; indeed, great beauty is often somewhat chilling: you admire, but are not moved. — W. Somerset Maugham

I watched the surrounding landscape with great curiosity, and I wanted to discover the words that could describe all its unspoiled beauty. — Daniel J. Rice

Beauty ... is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. — Oscar Wilde

Saints will not be out of place in heaven, their beauty will be as great as that of the place prepared for them. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Another hidden sacrifice, one of great spiritual beauty and of powerful efficacy in the healing of human sorrows, is the — James Allen

The Old West, mysterious, serious, with great beauty at every vista and terrible things happening whenever any people appeared.) — Amy Bloom

Mother-love is not inevitable. The good mother is a great artist ever creating beauty out of chaos — Alice Randall

The natural world creates great beauty every day, yet the only rules of composition it follows are those of function and chance. — Scott McCloud

Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence. — Charlie Chaplin

Earthquakes would be great if they could hit specific areas, like the parent lounge at a children's beauty pageant. — Dana Gould

The beauty of nature has been one of the great inspirations in my life. — Jim Henson

For the majority of the people it is a difficult place to live. That's a reality that we can't ignore. But there is also great beauty to it. — Edwidge Danticat

Beauty is a great gift of heaven; not for the purpose of female vanity, but a great gift for one who loves, and wishes to be beloved. — Maria Edgeworth

Time is a dream ... a destroying dream;
It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas;
It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls. — Conrad Aiken

Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art. — Henry David Thoreau

Great designers seldom make great advertising men, because they get overcome by the beauty of the picture - and forget that merchandise must be sold. — James Randolph Adams

The birds in the sky can never great the king yet their beauty gives the king to stare at them endlessly, wishing to be with them in the sky. — Auliq Ice

Great leader knows that under the turmoil of chaos and change, there is a beauty of patterns and designs. — Amit Ray

You don't have to be a rich person to have a great life. You have to be a person of value to enjoy the beauty of life. — Debasish Mridha

My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one. — Olaf Stapledon

No moment of charm is born on bare soil, a careless accident of beauty, but is the sum of great sorrows, growths, and efforts. — Anais Nin

It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded. — Oscar Wilde

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn — Herbie Hancock

To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art. — David Mamet

The spirit of L.A. is untamed wilderness. It's earthquakes and wildfires and oceans and mountain lions and fog. There's great physical beauty. — Dan Gilroy

In my opinion, I think we have brief moments of great beauty and great pain, and as we journey we try to grasp one, so we can avoid the other. — Brandon Shire

One great function of the arts is to keep ideals alive in a culture that does not yet realize them. — Susan Neiman

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers. — Victor Hugo

There have been advances in the technology of beauty that I think are great. & you know what? Use it. — Ellen Barkin

I'm going to eviscerate you and leave your organs on a pike in the yard as a warning to those who wear large jewelry. — Libba Bray

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation. — Richard Dawkins

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure. — Robert Wilson Lynd

All the great writers are like that: the beauty of their sentences, like the beauty of a woman one has not yet met, is unforeseeable ... — Marcel Proust

I'm a great believer in the beauty and the power of surprise. — Mark Gatiss

Smiles from girls like you are what started the Trojan War. — Amanda Lance

Great waves, and blaze with fire like them.
In beauty, but do not condemn,
The seamen who embark and fail,
But only those who will not sail. — John Piper

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable. — Christian Nestell Bovee

This was a place of learning, and wonder, and great beauty.'
'Time has not been kind to the place.'
'Time is never kind. — Joe Abercrombie

In my world, I believe in the great beauties, the highest of which, is love. — Bryant McGill

I am not interested in whether you have stood with the great; I am interested in whether you have sat with the broken. — Unknown

Is great beauty in the simplicity of giving oneself to another in trust, and allowing them to hold you up. — Raine Miller

The great challenge for the garden designer is not to make the garden look natural, but to make the garden so that the people in it will feel natural. — Lawrence Halprin

The dower of great beauty has always been misfortune, since happiness and beauty do not agree together. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

The unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit is of great worth in God's sight. — Judith Couchman

It is one of the arts of a great beauty to heighten the effect of her charms by affecting to be sweetly unconscious of them. — Christian Nestell Bovee

There's great beauty on this world if you just have the eyes to see it. — Henry Travers

Love is the beauty and the strength of all societies and the great pleasure of our lives on earth. — John Bunyan

I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great. I am interested in whether you've sat broken. — Unknown

Life is great.
Life is amazing.
Observe the beauty in everything you do. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The six great gifts of an Irish girl are beauty, soft voice, sweet speech, wisdom, needlework, and chastity. — Theodore Roosevelt

Great is the strife between beauty and modesty. — Ovid

There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence. — Rumi

I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark. — David Rakoff

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty. — Martin Luther King Jr.

The beauty of a great idea lies in the art of using it. — Thomas A. Edison