#beau

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. ↗

— Fanny Brice

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Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation. ↗

— Robert Bridges

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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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.. the late afternoon sunlight, warm as oil, sweet as childhood ... ↗

— Stephen King

#colors #colours #sunlight #beauty

Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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I had a dream I put my hands inside my chest and held my heart to try to keep it still. ↗

— Mariko Tamaki

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At Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settled after a night of rain. I dip my cupped hands. I drink a long time. It tastes like stone, leaves, fire. It falls cold into my body, waking the bones. I hear them deep inside me, whispering oh what is that beautiful thing that just happened? ↗

— Mary Oliver

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Before examining this more carefully and investigating its consequences, I want to dwell for a moment in the contemplation of God, to ponder His attributes in me, to see, admire, and adore the beauty of His boundless light, insofar as my clouded insight allows. Believing that the supreme happiness of the other life consists wholly of the contemplation of divine greatness, I now find that through less perfect contemplation of the same sort I can gain the greatest joy available in this life. ↗

— René Descartes

#happiness #philosophy #purpose #thinking #beauty

People see you as an object, not as a person, and they project a set of expectations onto you. People who don't have it think beauty is a blessing, but actually it sets you apart. ↗

— Candice Bergen

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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness. ↗

— Stendhal

#happiness #beauty