Quotes About Beautiful Things

#1. I have this idea stuck in my head that you have to be born beautiful in order to dream beautiful things. God didn't write beautiful on my heart. I'm stuck with all my bad dreams. Bad dreams for bad boys. I guess that's the way it is for me. Look, there's nothing I can do about it.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#2. We should not attach to some fancy ideas or to some beautiful things. We should not seek for something good. The truth is always near at hand, within your reach.

Shunryu Suzuki

#3. Looking at beautiful things is what makes me the happiest.

Ali MacGraw

#4. I am travelling half the year around the world, every year, so coming home is one of the most beautiful things.

Andre Rieu

#5. Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#6. Prayer is making space available for God to do beautiful things with your life.

Anthony J. Ciorra

#7. Seeing the sun, the moon and the stars, I said to myself, 'Who could be the Master of these beautiful things?' I felt a great desire to see him, to know him and to pay him homage.

Josephine Bakhita

#8. How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

Elaine Scarry

#9. You're beautiful, and beautiful things don't demand attention. It just gravitates to them.

Seth King

#10. I once knew a writer who, after saying beautiful things about the sea, passed through a Pacific hurricane, and he became a changed man.

Joshua Slocum

#11. For me, decorating perfection means eclectic styles and collections of beautiful things like pottery, pillboxes and match strikers.

Jane Green

#12. The most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep ...

John Geddes

#13. I could help her in her shop, Eleanor thought; she loves beautiful things and I would go with her to find them. We could go anywhere we pleased, to the edge of the world if we liked, and come back when we wanted to.

Shirley Jackson

#14. Beautiful like all the Shadowhunters were beautiful, like moonlight shearing off the edges of broken glass: lovely and deadly. Beautiful things, cruel things, cruel in that way that only people who absolutely believed in the rightness of their cause could be cruel.

Cassandra Clare

#15. Yes, the party had been delightful, but there was more to the world than that. Bigger things, more beautiful things, more real things.

Sarah J. Maas

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Sappho

#17. They're like lips, they're like noses, they're like eyeballs, you should be able to have them out all the time if you want. Nipples are beautiful things, don't hide them.

Cara Delevingne

#18. I forgot that I might see So many beautiful things I forgot that I might need To find out what life could bring

R.J. Palacio

#19. Concrete poets continue to turn out beautiful things, but to me they're more visual than oral, and they almost really belong on the wall rather than in a book. I haven't the least idea of where poetry is going.

James Laughlin

#20. Tomorrow we will do beautiful things.

Antonio Gaudi

#21. I was thinking about how temporary disappointment can be if you don't linger on it too long and how there are beautiful things in the world if you look. It's up to you to find them for yourself.

Marc Maron

#22. I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Oscar Wilde

#23. I've not much interest in the important things of life. Only in the beautiful things. Just this lilac here makes me happy.

Erich Maria Remarque

#24. Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

Ben Okri

#25. When I am happy it is so rare. I need to dwell on it, to contemplate it. What a hunger, a craving for beautiful things.

Anais Nin

#26. The reverence that the object maker has for the materials, for the shape, and for the miracle of his skill transcends to God, the Master Craftsman, the Creator of all things, who uses us, our hands, as His tools to make these beautiful things.

Sam Maloof

#27. I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

Padma Lakshmi

#28. The most beautiful things often stand alone.

Jenim Dibie

#29. All the best things are like that, though, Lex, the most beautiful things. Part of the beauty comes from the fact that they're short-lived.

Cynthia Hand

#30. The whole world is an art gallery when you're mindful. There are beautiful things everywhere and they're free.

Charles Tart

#31. I've seen a lot of beautiful things with a heavy heart.

Albert Camus

#32. Terrible and beautiful things happened to everyone. That was life. Simply life.

Tiffany Reisz

#33. I love creating and being able to see an idea come to fruition. I love making beautiful things.

Stacey Bendet

#34. No; I'm not bad. But sometimes beautiful things grow bad by doing bad, and it takes some time for their badness to spoil their beauty. So little boys may be mistaken if they go after things because they beautiful.

George MacDonald

#35. It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a child into your life who is not genetically yours is one of the most beautiful things you can do. But I'm also interested in having my own baby, too.

Tyra Banks

#36. If you think of beautiful things, you're not sad.

Eva Zeisel

#37. The most wonderful, beautiful things in life are the simple things which we have all forgotten.

Gerald Durrell

#38. Some beautiful things are meant to be sad so we can appreciate the beautiful things that aren't.

Nora Roberts

#39. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

Oscar Wilde

#40. You see only the beautiful things when you stand still. You only see things that you don't ordinarily notice. The birds are the prettiest things, I imagine.

Heather O'Neill

#41. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful. Things would get difficult. But that was okay too.

Lauren Oliver

#42. She screamed, the high scream that was neither human nor animal but something terrible in between, the sort of sound that you never forget no matter how many beautiful things you hear afterward.

Maggie Stiefvater

#43. Beautiful things are durable things. Beautiful things you just do not deposit at a garbage dump.

Jan Kriekels

#44. Like other beautiful things in this world, its end (that of a shaft) is to be beautiful; and, in proportion to its beauty, it receives permission to be otherwise useless. We do not blame emeralds and rubies because we cannot make them into heads of hammers.

John Ruskin

#45. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

Oscar Wilde

#46. They do the essential work of literary art: they make us more human than we were before. (from the Introduction to Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed)

Steve Almond

#47. The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.

Soren Kierkegaard

#48. One of the rarest and most beautiful things in this world is to meet someone who has the ability to intoxicate you. Every moment with her was exhilarating, and every moment without her was spent captivated by thoughts about her. She was like the finest of wines. And I was getting drunk.

Richie Singh

#49. The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other to the world's end.

C.S. Lewis

#50. it is a pleasure, a kind of mild masochism, to have all the beautiful things belong to someone you love and none to yourself.

Fletcher Flora

#51. Creating and sharing beautiful things has provided me with the inspiration that we can do things we never thought we could do and that we will get to see wonderful things we never thought we would see.

Rob Bell

#52. Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning gatherer of beautiful things.

Rob Brezsny

#53. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.

Oscar Wilde

#54. The music is one of the beautiful things that has survived the Castro regime. I have played for audiences all over the world but I've never played for a Cuban audience. For [husband] Emilio and me, the music is the one tie to our homeland.

Gloria Estefan

#55. For the world is not painted, or adorned, but is from the beginning beautiful; and God has not made some beautiful things, but Beauty is the creator of the universe.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#56. All those cliches, those things you hear about having a baby and motherhood - all of them are true. And all of them are the most beautiful things you will ever experience.

Penelope Cruz

#57. In beautiful things St. Francis saw Beauty itself, and through His vestiges imprinted on creation he followed his Beloved everywhere, making from all things a ladder by which he could climb up and embrace Him who is utterly desirable.

Bonaventure

#58. By means of beauty, all beautiful things become beautiful.

Socrates

#59. Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.

Henry De Montherlant

#60. The most beautiful things are not perfect, they are special

Bob Marley

#61. To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#62. Mother, why are you breaking your beautiful things?' I asked ...
'Because I love them so much.

Ruta Sepetys

#63. Someone who loves you will reveal beautiful things within yourself ... things you had never noticed before ... things nobody else cared to.

Steve Maraboli

#64. But sometimes the males of the species brought home shiny, beautiful things,
with hope burning in their hearts.

Sherry Thomas

#65. I have been supremely lucky in my life in that I have known great love, and of course I am the temporary custodian of some incredible and beautiful things.

Elizabeth Taylor

#66. If we are created in the image and likeness of God, then whatever good, true, or beautiful things we can say about humanity or creation we can say of God exponentially.

Richard Rohr

#67. You are human, you will make mistakes, and it's one of the most beautiful things about being human, but you must learn from your mistakes, otherwise your life will have a lot of unnecessary pain.

Rhonda Byrne

#68. The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.

Oscar Wilde

#69. Words are the most beautiful things existed in the world, but they die as fast as they were born, unless you convert them to act!
The Secret Life of Bees

Sue Monk Kidd

#70. Most beautiful things comes to us free of charge.

Debasish Mridha

#71. If you let fear rule you you'll miss the beautiful things right in front of you.

Micalea Smeltzer

#72. Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.

George Santayana

#73. I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga ... in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.

Elizabeth Berkley

#74. Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.

Muriel Barbery

#75. Be wanderers through time, I said. Be witnesses of all splendid and beautiful things human. Be true immortals.

Anne Rice

#76. Have all beautiful things sad destinies?

Jean Rhys

#77. I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

George Santayana

#78. Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved,

L. Frank Baum

#79. All beautiful things must end. Otherwise they are not beautiful.

Zan Perrion

#80. You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe.

Debra Anastasia

#81. Words of Wisdom Approach each day with positive thoughts. Believe in the goodness of others. Create a better world by being a friend. Decorate your life with beautiful things. Educate yourself through the teaching of others.

Scott Schwab

#82. We line our lives with beautiful things to create a cushion of stability: the illusion of a cohesive past, the promise of an unclouded future.

Holland Cotter

#83. I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made.

Robbie Coltrane

#84. Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

Albert Einstein

#85. We appreciate beautiful things not for their utility only, but also for what they are in themselves - or more plausibly, for how they appear in themselves.

Roger Scruton

#86. Art is a place where tragedy meets beauty. An artist is someone who creates the most beautiful things of his life when his soul starts bleeding.

Akshay Vasu

#87. We should think only beautiful things, as much as we can. There is so much beautiful in the world if you look around. You are only looking at the dirt under your feet, Jimmy. It's not good for you.

Margaret Atwood

#88. Beautiful things spoil nothing.

Gustave Flaubert

#89. An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Oscar Wilde

#90. You've got a beautiful country with so many beautiful people and so many beautiful things happening and stuff like that lets it down. I feel sad for them.

Robbie Williams

#91. There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and I've always looked at life that way; I've always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that I've gone through.

Gloria Estefan

#92. The recalling of beautiful things, whether they are your own experiences or the acheivements of others, is a creative act. Simple ideas can be restated by rote; but profound ideas must be recreated by will and imagination.

Robert Grudin

#93. If prison had taught him one thing, it was that beautiful things were crushed - and perfect things didn't exist at all.

Katie Porter

#94. They like bright colors," she said. He smiled at her, those dark tameless eyes, half-bold and half-shy. "They like beautiful things," he said.

Pamela Todd

#95. I'm a big believer than a great bit is a great bit - if I go and see someone I love, like Robert Klein. I want to hear some classics and some new stuff. But a great stand-up bit takes a long time to really polish and perfect, and they're beautiful things when they're done.

Jerry Seinfeld

#96. Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Camille Pissarro

#97. I've always looked at shoes as being immensely beautiful things.

Graham Coxon

#98. Livia, you make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all.

Debra Anastasia

#99. You are only as beautiful as the many beautiful things you do for others without expectation.

Janelle Monae

#100. And yet, my dear Estela, in the end one accepts the will of God, resigns oneself, and discovers that, even with all its calvaries, life is full of beautiful things.

Mario Vargas-Llosa