"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world."
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"To experience a little hunger now and then can be a beautiful reminder of the deeper hunger of our souls."
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"Love always seeks for betterment, for ways of making life more workable, joyful, whole, and beautiful. Love examines every option available to bring about an improvement in life. This kind of discernment is an act of decency, not an act of judgment. Rigid philosophies of judgment will seek to establish structure as a substitute for decency, control as a substitute for trust, and the mind as a substitute for higher awareness."
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"White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value;they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them."
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"Now, they say that New Zealand is beautiful and I do not know -- because after 22 hours on a plane any landmass would be beautiful."
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"Mother: the most beautiful word on the lips of mankind."
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"The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it."
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"You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world."
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"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness."
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"Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does."
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"The beautiful souls are they that are universal, open, and ready for all things."
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"For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake."
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"A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it."
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"Vadalism: beautiful as a rock in a cop's face."
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"Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations in harmonic proportions, and from the billions of vibrations that are possible, the universe shows a startling, overwhelming preference for the few thousand that make harmonic sense.This is because the One, from which all things issue, is beautiful."
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"The chief enemy of creativity is 'good' sense."
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"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."
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"Only when we connect to nature, engaged with nature, are we truly alive and vigorous. To really be alive, one must be under the sun, the moon, the shining stars and surrounded by the beautiful greenery and pure waters of the natural world."
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"Life is the blossoming of flowers in the spring, the ripening of fruit in the fall, the rhythm of the earth and of nature. Life is the cry of cicadas signalling the end of summer, migratory birds winging south in a transparent autumn sky, fish frolicking in a stream. Life is the joy beautiful music installs in us, the thrilling sight of a mountain peak reddened by the rising sun, the myriad combinations and permutations of visible and invisible phenomena. Life is all things."
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"Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted."
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