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“God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.”

Book:The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree

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The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree

A story that delves into the complexities of life's later years, focusing on the journey of an aging individual reflecting on their past and the legacy they leave behind. more

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Walter Savage Landor

Walter Savage Landor was an English writer known for his poetry and prose. His works are renowned for their wit, satire, and profound philosophical insights, which have had a lasting impact on literature. more

“I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense. It looked as if God had sent in a team of the world's finest artists overnight-and I was privy to the opening day of his spectacle. As I slowly drove along this festive row, leaves danced in the air and brushed against my windshield. It seemed as if I had landed in Oz. I was strongly tempted to get out and clap at God's imagination.”

Ifs World Artist Fall Imagination Beauty Air Team Driving Intense Familiar Opening Finest Tempted Festive Opening Day

Author:Sheila Walsh

“Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.”

Beautiful Beauty Eternal Reflection Passing Passings Dust Marvelous Handful Skulls Fugitive Helen Toothless Helen Of Troy

Author:Eliphas Levi

“An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.”

Beauty Essentials Appearance Delicacy Fragility

Book:A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Source: A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.”

World Natural Beauty Moral Honesty Truth Is

Author:Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury

“Beauty means this to one person, perhaps, and that to the other. And yet when any one of us has seen or heard or read that which to us is beautiful, we have known an emotion which is in every case the same in kind, if not in degree; an emotion precious and uplifting.”

Ifs Kind Mean Persons Beautiful Emotion Known Beauty Cases Heard Degrees Uplifting

Author:John Galsworthy

“Whenever I experience something beautiful, I am with Soul. That moment of inward breath, that pause and awareness of "how beautiful this is" is a prayer of appreciation, a moment of gratitude in which I behold beauty and am one with it.”

Soul Moments Beautiful Prayer Beauty Awareness Gratitude Breaths Appreciation That Moment Inward Pauses Something Beautiful

Author:Jean Shinoda Bolen

“What is beautiful? Whatever is perceived joyfully is beautiful. Bliss is the essence of beauty.”

Beautiful Beauty Essence Bliss Essence Of Beauty

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Beauty captivates the flesh in order to obtain permission to pass right through to the soul. . . . When the feeling for beauty happens to be associated with the sight of some human being, the transference of love is made possible, at any rate in an illusory manner. But it is all the beauty of the world, it is universal beauty, for which we yearn.”

World Humans Made Soul Feelings Happens Order Human Beings Love Is Beauty Universal Sight Rate Flesh Permission Illusory Beauty Of The World Transference

Author:Simone Weil

“True beauty consists of purity of heart.”

Heart Beauty Purity True Beauty

Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a possible example, as is selfless love. Although moral beauty is a natural gift, it is nevertheless more likely to emerge and flourish in societies that appreciate and encourage it.”

Certain Natural Beauty Moral Grace Example Appreciate Genuine Generosity Selfless Modesty Nevertheless Spontaneous Selfless Love Unselfish Acts Of Courage Natural Gifts

Author:Yi-Fu Tuan

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