"I like the thought that what we are to do on this earth is embellish it for its greater beauty, so that oncoming generations can look back to the shapes we leave here and get the same thrill that I get in looking back at theirs - at the Parthenon, at Chartres Cathedral."
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"Nosegays! leave them for the waking, Throw them earthward where they grew Dim are such, beside the breaking Amaranths he looks unto. Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do."
"If God answered all of your prayers, would the world look different or just your life?"
"Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else."
"Knowing how to look is a way of inventing."
"If you look good, we look good."
"I am very independent. I can look after myself but I still need a lot of love and care."
"If you wanna be an artist carry sketch pad with you, and sketch everything you see. Get so you can draw anything and it looks like what it's supposed to be. It's a lot of work, but if you really have it in you, it's not like work. It becomes fun."
"When you look at a movie, you look at a director's thought process."
"It's time to take a look at my failures and stop calling them successes. Now I can start working at something that can use me best."
"What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense."
"Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth."
"If you look back at my story, it doesn’t matter where you look, but God’s fingerprints are all over the place."
"Take some exercise, try to recover the look of a human being."
"Yoga is a mirror to look at ourselves from within."
"You look at things you enjoy in your life, but much more important is what you can do to make the world a better place."
"No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it."
"It's not how much you have that makes people look up to you, it's who you are."
"In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us."
"You have to look at what a person does with his life. Anyone can say that hes a Christian, but you look at how they live."