Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.- Andre Gide
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.
But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.
I do not think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
Are we changing the idea of what beauty is? Let's hope so. I am not the typical Hollywood beauty. Let's hope we are looking at the insides of people a little more.
I have been overcome by the beauty and richness of our life together, those early mornings setting out, those evenings gleaming with rivers and lakes below us, still holding the last light.
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Proportions are what makes the old Greek temples classic in their beauty. They are like huge blocks, from which the air has been literally hewn out between the columns.
As for everything else, so for a mathematical theory: beauty can be perceived but not explained.
Only when inspired to go beyond consciousness by some extraordinary insight does beauty manifest unexpectedly.
