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“It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.”

Past Remember Beauty Comfort Instant Favour Habitual Remembering Her

Book:The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four

Source: The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Art, Volume VII, Book Four

“To practice Zen means to realize one's existence in the beauty and clarity of this present moment, rather than letting life unravel in useless daydreaming of the past and future.”

Mean Moments Past Realizing Existence Beauty Practice Future Clarity Useless Present Moment Daydreaming

Book:Zen Meditation in Plain English

Source: Zen Meditation in Plain English

“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”

Past Beauty Promise Abstract Beautiful Women Being Beautiful Health Beauty Promise Of The Future

Book:Professor At The Breakfast Table

Source: Professor At The Breakfast Table

“The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.”

Past Time Beauty Subjects Historical Surreal Accelerate Vanishing Historical Change

Book:On photography

Source: On photography

“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”

I Can Past Beautiful Time Emotion Beauty History Notes Realising Beauty Is Only Skin Deep Emotional Love

Book:The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930

Source: The Diary of Virginia Woolf: 1925-1930

“There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.”

World Matter Pain Past Strong Wish Felt Differences Beauty Struggle Add Painful Sincere Contrast Providing Discomfort Reconcile Life Struggle There Comes A Time

Author:David Viscott

“How often I admire the taste shown in the garden which, within the house, may be indifferent. Here is an art which is today probably more perfect than at any previous time, one which does not break with the past, while it brings a sense of comely order, and a radiant beauty, to cottage and manor alike.”

May Doe Art Today Past Order House Perfect Beauty Break Taste Essentials Garden Admire Indifference Admiration Gardening Indifferent Radiant Cottages Radiant Beauty

Author:William Rothenstein

“Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man. Every thing we see today, made by past generations, was, before its appearance, a thought in the mind of a man or an impulse in the heart of a woman.”

Men World Mind Heart Made Today Past Emotion Beauty Generations This World Greatness Appearance Impulse Women Beauty Past Generations

Book:Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

Source: Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces

“Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that”

Littles Light Seems Past Beauty Figures Elements Favors Swim Recollection Over The Past Mellow

Book:Collected essays

Source: Collected essays

“The concept of active cooperation has taken the place of opposition to the new form of government and of dreamy resignation entranced with the beauty of times past.”

Government Past Form Beauty Taken Concepts Active Opposition Cooperation Resignation Forms Of Government Dreamy Times Past

Author:Gustav Stresemann

“The beauty of the past belongs to the past.”

Author:Margaret Bourke-White