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“Nature does not cast pearls before swine. There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate,—not a grain more.”

Book:The Journal, 1837-1861

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“But what I like most to do is lie down in the early evening, just for half an hour anywhere I am, and listen to all the sounds I can hear. As if I were listening to music. And being attentive to things very far and very present, and when you hear voices and they’re speaking a language you don’t understand, it’s really beautiful. I love that.”

Beauty Meditation Being Present Being Present To Your Life Beautiful Sounds

Author:Jim Jarmusch

“Each of us has Heaven and Hell in him, Basil,' cried Dorian, with a wild gesture of despair.”

Art Beauty Wilde Decadent The Picture Of Dorian Gray Fin De Siecle 1890s

Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

“It doesn't matter if she was prettier than you when he decided to cheat. She was treated like trash just like you. He didn't commit to her. He didn't love her soul or cherished any of her accomplishments. He just liked her face and what is that? It is nothing. That is not who she is. He didn't give his heart or time to her. She was the one that was cheated because he stayed with you. You never lost him because he never made a commitment to her. So don't be so hard on the other woman. She was treated poorly also. She was nothing to him. She was only something superficial that he coveted. But loving her? Knowing her? Sharing his deepest feelings with her?... No! She could have been any pretty face. It was never her but a fantasy. He didn't even know her, but for her beauty. And what is beauty? Isn't that something you can buy at a plastic surgeon's office?”

Beauty Envy Jealousy Cheating Infidelity Affairs Other Woman

Book:The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible

Source: The Narcissistic Abuse Recovery Bible

“This land of ours is a savage place,” she thought. “It is a land of fang and claw; of fishing spear and skinner’s knife; of blood and scalding suns. Yet it is a beautiful place nonetheless. There are places in the world that are more savage, I am sure, but there can be no place more beautiful.”

Beauty Africa Beautiful Places Cruel World Savage Land

Book:From Whence The Rivers Run

Source: From Whence The Rivers Run

“A glass in style of diamond only gives you beauty, it's not going to be of any other benefit.”

Beauty Style Diamond Benefit Glass

Author:Kamaran Ihsan Salih

“There is nothing more practical in the end than the preservation of beauty.”

Beauty Conservation Preservation

Book:The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

Source: The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America

“We all sit in silence, soaking up the sun, as the plants do beside us, their little leaves opened up wide in thankfulness for the day. It is a beautiful day; there are beautiful moments in all of this.”

Nature Beauty Gratitude Little Things Thankfulness Plants

Book:Nothing but My Body

Source: Nothing but My Body

“One day, Ethan would see how beautiful he was in Ryder’s eyes.”

Beauty

Book:Ledgers and Rent Boys

Source: Ledgers and Rent Boys

“Love can cause problem and love can heal humanly problems based on our virtue.”

Love Romance Sadness

Author:Santosh Kalwar

“This is for doing it even if no one will ever know because the beauty is in the act of doing it, not in what it can lead to.”

Art Beauty Alone

Book:Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

Source: Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

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