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"I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth."
"You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they think it's beautiful."
"Confidence is the only key. I know a lot of people who aren't traditionally 'beautiful' - not symmetrical or perfect-bodied or perfect-skinned. But none of that matters because all that shines through is their confidence, humor, and comfort with themselves. I can't think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself."
"I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection is very artful. But there's something I liked about the image of a skater going in this endless twisted circle that doesn't have any real endpoint. So the object is not to stop or arrive anywhere; it's just to make this thing as beautiful as they can."
"It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived."
"The most beautiful thing you can wear is confidence."
"Your mind is a your temple, keep it beautiful and free. Don't let an egg get laid in it by something you can't see."
"The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see."
"We had to learn that we're beautiful. We had to relearn something forcefully taken from us. We had to learn about Black power. People have power if we unite. We learned the importance of coming together and being active"
"Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited."
"At the still point, there the dance is."
"Nothing useless can be truly beautiful."
"Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity."
"The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
"It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies."
"I wanted to be a nun. I saw nuns as superstars. When I was growing up I went to a Catholic school, and the nuns, to me, were these superhuman, beautiful, fantastic people."
"Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul."
"There has never been a time in which I have been convinced from within myself that I am alive. You see, I have only such a fugitive awareness of things around me that I always feel they were once real and are now fleeting away. I have a constant longing, my dear sir, to catch a glimpse of things as they may have been before they show themselves to me."
"I think making things beautiful is important. But often what's first considered ugly is beautiful, too."
"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread."
