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"Bicycles are pieces of art. You get that combination of kinetic engineering, but then, besides the welds, the paint jobs, the kind of the sculpture of it all is quite beautiful. Bikes have such great lines, and all different styles."
"Cross-country running was so beautiful with all the trails and the lake regions ... very physical and also a bit spiritual, where you could come over the mountain and all of a sudden you'd see a Buddhist landscape fog."
"I think flowers are very beautiful things. Very nice and innocent things. They don't harm anybody."
"Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful. To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity."
"Turns out it was mostly a lie. But, at least for a short while, it was a beautiful one."
"The mirror of the heart must be clear, so you can discern the ugly from the beautiful."
"Have you ever gotten breathless before from a beautiful face, for i see you there, my dear."
"I want to be silverly beautiful."
"The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T.B. Once you were beautiful."
"I'm open to the gifts of the Spirit. The real healings are so beautiful I hate to see it blasphemed by fakes who merchandise the gifts."
"INVISIBLE BOY And here we see the invisible boy In his lovely invisible house, Feeding a piece of invisible cheese To a little invisible mouse. Oh, what a beautiful picture to see! Will you draw an invisible picture for me?"
"As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling."
"This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away."
"So many affluent men are faced with finding love problems. I'm sure beautiful, affluent women are faced with the same things sometimes."
"I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness."
"Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time."
"What do people have against convicts? Is living together in the pen of freedom, where young people engage in mutual psychology, any more beautiful?"
"This is a beautiful and hopeful time to be alive. We are at a turning point, and your contribution to the world is needed more than ever. All of your struggles, all the struggles of your ancestors, all the struggles of all life have led to this moment right now. You are the culmination of life's great yearning; you are the hope of the world."
"Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell."
"An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty."
