"Life is beautiful not because of the things we see or do. Life is beautiful because of the people we meet."
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"I think jazz is a beautiful, democratic music. It encourages musicians with very strong, and many times, very different points of view to work together as a team while, at the same time, giving them the space to express their individuality. It's a very important art form and can be used as a model for different cultures to work together."
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"An essential element of any art is risk. If you don't take a risk then how are you going to make something really beautiful, that hasn't been seen before?"
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"You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive."
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"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
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"The mathematical sciences particularly exhibit order symmetry and limitations; and these are the greatest forms of the beautiful."
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"When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back."
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"Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic."
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"Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light."
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"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow."
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"The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence."
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"Beautiful music is the art of the prophets that can calm the agitations of the soul; it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us."
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"Peering from some high window; at the gold of November sunset (and feeling that if day has to become night this is a beautiful way)."
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"The only journey is the one within."
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"I feel like if you're a really good human being, you can try to find something beautiful in every single person, no matter what."
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"Sometimes I wish I was a beautiful machine so I could resist your kiss and not cry when you're mean."
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"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
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"Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."
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"What spirit is so empty and blind, that it cannot recognize the fact that the foot is more noble than the shoe, and skin more beautiful than the garment with which it is clothed?"
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"Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful."
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