“Your hands hold roses always in a way that says They are not only yours; the beautiful changes In such kind ways, Wishing ever to sunder Things and things' selves for a second finding, to lose For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.” WayKindSelfMomentsHandsBeautifulWishLosesWonderFindingsRose Book:Poems of Richard Wilbur Source: Poems of Richard Wilbur
“There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.” HandsBeautifulLosesGainsMethodSoldierNosesLionsDelicateArtificialTravelerLimbs Author:Robert Wilson Lynd
“You often hear attacks on international adoption as robbing a child of his or her culture, and that's both true and false. It's true that an internationally adopted child loses the rich background of history and religion and culture and language that the child was born into, but the cruel fact is that most children don't have access to the local, beautiful culture within an orphanage.” ChildrenFactsBeautifulCultureLanguageBornLosesRichInternationalAccessBackgroundsLocalsAdoptionAdoptedRobbingOrphanageTrue And FalseCulture And LanguageAdopted Children Author:Melissa Fay Greene
“cultivate in young minds an equal love of the good, the beautiful and the absurd; most people's lives are too lead-colored to lose the smallest twinkle of light from a flash of nonsense.” PeopleMindLightBeautifulYoungLosesEducationEqualAbsurdNonsenseFlashSmallestYoung MindsEqual Love Author:Fanny Kemble
“Attachment is your biggest strength and your biggest weakness. Though it gives you the power to love someone more than yourself, it becomes difficult to live when you lose something you are attached to. Even when we have lost, we should go beyond that and get truly attached to someone. Loving someone truly is the most beautiful feeling.” GivingShouldFeelingsBeautifulLostDifficultLosesWeaknessAttachmentLove SomeoneLoving SomeoneAttached To Someone Author:Shahid Kapoor
“If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.” IfsWorldHardWholeWisdomSeemsJobsBeautifulLosesRocksPlanetsTiredPatternsDirtDay To DayBeautiful LifeDay LifeDay To Day Life Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“The pathway to enlightenment is beautiful. There are a lot of wonderful things that happen along the way. Win or lose, you just keep going, and it happens eventually.” WayHappensBeautifulWinningLosesWonderfulEnlightenmentBuddhistKeep GoingWonderful ThingsPathwaysCosmologyWin Or Lose Author:Frederick Lenz
“Many a play is like a painted backdrop, something to be looked at from the front. An Ibsen play is like a black forest, somethingyou can enter, something you can walk about in. There you can lose yourself: you can lose yourself. And once inside, you find such wonderful glades, such beautiful, sunlit places.” PlayBeautifulActorsBlackLosesWalksActingWonderfulFrontsForestsLosing YourselfBackdropIbsen Author:Minnie Maddern Fiske
“... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas.” IfsWantIdeasEarthBeautifulCertainCoursesEasyLosesSourceRiversOneselfSpreadSurfaceCirclesPrimitiveVagueViciousObscurityRegularityVicious CirclesVague IdeasBeautiful River Author:Lazare Carnot