Quotes of: Beautiful-thing Keyword

It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.

The Architecture of Happiness

Kaohinani is a Hawaiian word meaning “gatherer of beautiful things.

Pronoia is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World is Conspiring to Shower You With Blessings

An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Sometimes beautiful things come into our lives out of nowhere. We can't always understand them, but we have to trust in them.

Torment

This is how you get unstuck. You reach.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

Beware a kiss' he told her. 'kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul

The Treachery of Beautiful Things

The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault.

Oscar Wilde

I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

Rufus Wainwright

Style is about fun. True style is not about having a closet full of expensive and beautiful things - it is instead about knowing when, where, and how to utilize your collection.

Nina Garcia

There are so many beautiful things that are a part of the world, and I've always looked at life that way; I've always tried to put on a smile and a brave front, not just for my kids but in my own life and all the difficulties that I've gone through.

Gloria Estefan

I'm intrigued by the way in which physical appearance can often direct a person's life; things happen differently for a beautiful woman than for a plain one.

Penelope Lively

She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

One of the beautiful things about men is that they're very in the moment. That's why they don't want to have an argument about what happened six months ago.

Tracy McMillan

I once believed soft, warm, beautiful things could never flourish in an environment of hard concrete and cold, dark bricks.

Tom Winton

...but thinking about it didn't do a thing. Thinking about it was a long dive into a bucket of shit that didn't have a bottom.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

There are so many torturous things in this life. Don't let a man who doesn't love you be one of them.

Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

The more often we see the things around us - even the beautiful and wonderful things - the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world: the flowers, the trees, the birds, the clouds - even those we...

Joseph B. Wirthlin

The money has always been wasted on me. I don't care for beautiful things, funnily enough. I am my father's daughter. The things that excite me are the smell of a wood-burning stove, uncultivated fields. My house is decaying and falling to pieces. It...

Alison Moyet

People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including insid...

Salma Hayek

The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target--you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is t...

Osho