~ Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician
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~ A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ~
~ The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise. ~
~ Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see Beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see Beauty never grows old. ~
~ Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts, for out of them will grow delightful conditions, all heavenly environment; of these if you but remain true to them, your world will at last be built. ~
~ We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. ~
~ The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment the eye of the body is not always that of the soul ~
~ Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. ~
~ The pain passes, but the beauty remains. ~
~ Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone.
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~ Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity
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~ A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~