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“He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.”

Wisdom Age Time Strong Beauty Rich Wise Aging Handsome

Book:The complete English works

Source: The complete English works

“Let me define a garden as the meeting of raw nature and the human imagination in which both seek the fulfillment of their beauty. Every sign indicates that nature wants us and wishes for collaboration with us, just as we long for nature to be fulfilled in us. If our original state was to live in a garden, as Adam and Eve did, then a garden signals our absolute origins as well as our condition of eternity, while life outside the garden is time and temporality.”

“The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.”

Time Literature Pleasure Quality Beauty Essentials Dues Representation Aquariums

Book:Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists

Source: Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists

“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

“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same fields, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.”

Years Moments Motivational Eye Time Nature Hours Beauty Fields

Book:The Portable Emerson: New Edition

Source: The Portable Emerson: New Edition

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”

“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.”

Love Should Whole Time Beauty Minutes Despair Eternity Offering Glimpse Unbearable Short Beauty

Book:Carnets: 1935-1942

Source: Carnets: 1935-1942

“The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely ridge, the dancing beck, the silent forest; always there will be the exhilaration of the summits. These are for the seeking, and those who seek and find while there is still time will be blessed both in mind and body.”

“For nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.”

Giving Night Time Easy Nature Beauty Morning Progress Seasons Mark Graves Gentle Cradle Succession Good Morning Night Time

Book:The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

Source: The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby

“No man's advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can't change you, going to church can't change you except you decide to change. Psalm 139:23 - 24”

Source: Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder