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Beautifully Quotes (page 139)

Annie Dillard quote: "We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death,..."
We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence... Annie Dillard
And the beauty of the anthropic principle is that it tells us, against all intuition, that a chemical model need only predict that life will arise on one planet in a billion billion to give us a good and entirely satisfying explanation for the presence of life here. Richard Dawkins
It's perpetual motion; the thing man wanted to invent but never did. . . . It's a mystery. . . . Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences . . . clean, quick, sure; nothing to rot later. Antibiotic, aesthetic, practical. Ray Bradbury
People love the good not much less than the beautiful, and the happy as well, or even just the living, for the world of it all, and heart's home. Annie Dillard
it was like any other relationship, there wasjealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. there were also fragmented moments ofgreat peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her andshe tied to get away from mebut it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was reallythere. Charles Bukowski
Aldous Huxley quote: "Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth..."
Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't. Aldous Huxley
I wish to live beacause life has within it that which is good, that which is beautiful, and that which is love. Therefore, since I have known all of these things, I have found them to be reason enough and--I wish to live. Moreover, because this is so, I wish others to live for generations and generations and generations and generations. Lorraine Hansberry
Have a regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. Louisa May Alcott
To such beings, such fugitive beings, their own nature and our anxiety fasten wings. And even when they are with us the look in their eyes seems to warn us that they are about to take flight. The proof of this beauty itself, that wings add is that often, for us, the same person is alternately winged and wingless. Marcel Proust
...but I should say that kindliness, and sincerity, and if I may say so--modesty--are worth far more to a man, to a husband, than all the wit and beauty in the world. Daphne du Maurier
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood. Gilbert K. Chesterton
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful..."
It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before. F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you. Elie Wiesel
In the field I’m in, there is a lot of that and it gets offered to me all the time. People even go as far as to just stick it in your pocket and walk off. Now, if it was a good thing, they wouldn’t do that. I mean, would somebody drop something beautiful in my pocket and just walk off? But I don’t want to have anything to do with any of that. I mean, as corny as it sounds, but this is how I really believe: Natural highs are the greatest highs in the world. Who wants to take something and just... Michael Jackson
He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it Leo Tolstoy

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