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"I know why families were created with all their imperfections. They humanize you. They are made to make you forget yourself occasionally, so that the beautiful balance of life is not destroyed."
"We are all dreamers creating the next world, the next beautiful world for ourselves and for our children."
"To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful."
"As long as autumn lasts, I shall not have hands, canvas and colors enough to paint the beautiful things I see."
"I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it."
"I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details."
"Just about every great, brave or beautiful thing in our culture was created by someone who didn't do it for money."
"I am a fashion designer. I'm not an environmentalist. When I get up in the morning, number one I'm a mother and a wife, and number two I design clothes. So the main thing I need to do is create, hopefully, exquisitely beautiful, desirable objects for my customer."
"In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child."
"A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finwë; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin."
"The curves of your lips rewrite history."
"American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it."
"The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony."
"The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs."
"O thou beautiful And unimaginable ether! and Ye multiplying masses of increased And still increasing lights! what are ye? what Is this blue wilderness of interminable Air, where ye roll along, as I have seen The leaves along the limpid streams of Eden? Is your course measur'd for ye? Or do ye Sweep on in your unbounded revelry Through an aerial universe of endless Expansion,--at which my soul aches to think,-- Intoxicated with eternity."
"I believe in the hands that work, in the brains that think, and in the hearts that love...I believe in sunshine, fresh air, friendship, calm sleep, beautiful thoughts."
"I love just how beautiful Vancouver is. I mean, everywhere you look it's just mountains and ocean."
"Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel."
"I am more greatly moved by people who struggle to express themselves...I prefer the abstract concept of incoherence in the face of great feeling to beautiful, full sentences that convey little emotion."
"It is an exquisite and beautiful thing in our nature, that, when the heart is touched and softened by some tranquil happiness or affectionate feeling, the memory of the dead comes over it most powerfully and irresistibly. It would seem almost as though our better thoughts and sympathies were charms, in virtue of which the soul is enabled to hold some vague and mysterious intercourse with the spirits of those whom we loved in life. Alas! how often and how long may these patient angels hover around us, watching for the spell which is so soon forgotten!"
