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"The more you get to know a person, the more attractive they become to you. Because everything beautiful you see on the inside of them, suddenly you see on the outside of them, too."
"Creativity is intelligence having fun."
"and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful."
"Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression, and violence, and enjoy it to the full."
"I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings."
"That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."
"I believe the world is incomprehensibly beautiful - an endless prospect of magic and wonder."
"The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage."
"Sometimes we make the mistake of thinking God uses only 'special' people the strong, the intelligent, the beautiful. We don't think He has a place for the rest of us. We are so wrong!"
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."
"The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide."
"Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them."
"Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life."
"And that is just the point... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?"
"Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola."
"I know that I've been put on this Earth to make people happy, to inspire people, and to uplift people. That's a beautiful thing."
"You know you have loved someone when you have glimpsed in them that which is too beautiful to die."
"No artist tolerates reality."
"A tree is beautiful, but what's more, it has a right to life; like water, the sun and the stars, it is essential. Life on earth is inconceivable without trees. Forests create climate, climate influences peoples' character, and so on and so forth. There can be neither civilization nor happiness if forests crash down under the axe, if the climate is harsh and severe, if people are also harsh and severe. ... What a terrible future!"
"Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder."
