"To some people a tree is something so incredibly beautiful that it brings tears to the eyes. To others it is just a green thing that stands in the way."
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"Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are."
"It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty."
"Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful… You dont have to be like everybody else. In fact I don’t think you should."
"Even if a relationship is breakable, it doesn’t mean it isn’t worthwhile, beautiful, and all the things that we look for."
"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."
"There was her face, like a summer peach, beautiful and warm, and the light of the candles reflected in her dark eyes. [He] held his breath. The entire world waited and held its breath."
"A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble."
"How terrible this darkness was, how bewildering, and yet mysteriously beautiful!"
"The sight of anything extremely beautiful, in nature or in art, brings back the memory of what one loves, with the speed of lightning."
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie."
"Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as that."
"I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree."
"What it felt to me was like the dissolution of my idea of myself. I felt like separateness evaporated. I felt this tremendous sense of oneness. I'm quite an erratic thinker, quite an adrenalized person, but through meditation, I found this beautiful serenity and selfless connection. My tendency towards selfishness, I felt that kind of exposed as a superficial and pointless perspective to have. I felt very relaxed, a sense of oneness. I felt love."
"You are worthy of love and respect. You are beautiful, gifted, and intelligent. Don't let the storm make you forget it."
"Many prayers are declined because of the rank odor of a corrupt heart, rising through the beautiful words. Let the words be wrong but the meaning right. . . . That flawed utterance is dearer to God!"
"If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."
"A hundred times have I thought New York is a catastrophe and 50 times: It is a beautiful catastrophe."
"I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."
"God gave you a heart to love with, not to hate with, God gave you the ability to create Heaven on earth, not Hell."