"Where there is peace, God is." ~George Herbert

"Carve your blessings in stone." ~Anon
"I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again." ~William Penn
"Dictum sapienti sat est - A word to a wise person is sufficient." ~Cicero Ovid Seneca

"May your pen happily writes ...™ ©Leah C Dancel

11/30/12

Chris Hart - smile

"All the statistics in the world can't measure the warmth of a smile." ~Chris Hart

Alfred Adler Quotes


"Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority." ~Alfred Adler

"Follow your heart, but take your brain with you." ~Alfred Adler

"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions." ~Alfred Adler

"Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement." ~Alfred Adler

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Mary Tyler Moore Quotes


"Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." ~Mary Tyler Moore

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave." ~Mary Tyler Moore

"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you." ~Mary Tyler Moore

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Leon Brown Quotes


"A moment of anger can destroy a lifetime of work, whereas a moment of love can break barriers that took a lifetime to build." ~Leon Brown

"Be patient. Life will offer you another chance as soon as you find calm within, for abundance is born out of calmness." ~Leon Brown

"Bitterness is a result of clinging to negative experiences. It serves you no good, and closes the door to your future." ~Leon Brown

"Healing is not an overnight process; it is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life." ~Leon Brown

"If you never tasted a bad apple, you would not appreciate a good apple. You have to experience life to understand life." ~Leon Brown

"It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to has power over you." ~Leon Brown

"It all begins with you. If you do not take care of yourself, you will not be strong enough to take care of anything in life." ~Leon Brown

"It all begins with you! Which is why you must take special care of yourself, as then you'll have the strength to take care of others." ~Leon Brown

"Never give up hope. Situations can change overnight, and problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun." ~Leon Brown

“One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well-being of the people in your life.” ~Leon Brown

"The pain will not go away by getting angry or bitter, it will go away when you learn to accept life's challenges with grace and ease." ~Leon Brown

"There is no need for revenge. Living happily ever after is a sign that you have not let the past beat you." ~Leon Brown

"Too many people listen to the noise of the world instead of themselves."~ Leon Brown

"Understand that you own nothing. Everything that surrounds you is temporary, only the love in your heart will last forever." ~Leon Brown

"When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back." ~Leon Brown

"You can be the kindest person in the world, but people will still try to throw dirt on you. Jealousy is a nasty trait; people will do anything to make themselves feel better and take away your love." ~Leon Brown

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Kurt Vonnegut Quotes


"Be soft.
Do not let the world make you hard.
Do not let the pain make you hate.
Do not let bitterness steal your sweetness.
Take pride that even though
the rest of the world may disagree,
you still believe it to be a beautiful place."
~Kurt Vonnegut

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before." ~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"Enjoy the little things in life because one day you`ll look back and realize they were the big things." -Kurt Vonnegut

"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center." ~Kurt Vonnegut

"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: The Only Proof He Needed for the Existence of God Was Music." ~Kurt Vonnegut

"New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become." ~Kurt Vonnegut

"The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration." ~Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

"The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest." ~Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it." ~Kurt Vonnegut 

"True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." ~Kurt Vonnegut

"What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured." ~Kurt Vonnegut

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Angela Airey - intuition

"Your intuition will tell you who's bluffing, who's lying, who's taking advantage - and who's trustworthy. " ~Angela Airey, Author (Intuition - A Business Skill).

Bette Neese - mosquito

"If you think you're too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito." ~Bette Neese

Emory Austin - song

"Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway." ~Emory Austin

David Icke Quotes



"The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous." ~David Icke

"The greatest prison people live in is the fear for of what other people think." ~David Icke


Harold R. McAlindon - leave a trail

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." ~Harold R. McAlindon

Robert J. Flaherty - prospector

"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing and that's all you'll ever find." ~Robert J. Flaherty

Leslie Ludy - priceless jewels

"Whenever you surrender the most precious areas of your life to GOD, it's like trading in a pile of worthless pebbles for a truckload of priceless jewels." ~Leslie Ludy

Patricia Neal - miracles

"A strong positive attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug." ~Patricia Neal

Alex Karras - soul and spirit

"Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles." ~Alex Karras

Hugh Miller - opportunities

"Problems are opportunities with thorns on them." ~Hugh Miller

Ezra Taft Benson Quotes


"A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances." ~Ezra Taft Benson

"Daily, constantly, we choose by our desires, our thoughts, and our actions whether we want to be blessed or cursed, happy or miserable." ~Ezra Taft Benson

"If someone wants to marry you outside the temple, whom will you strive to please - God or a mortal? If you insist on a temple marriage, you will be pleasing the Lord and blessing the other party." ~Ezra Taft Benson

"If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter." ~Ezra Taft Benson

"Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul." ~Ezra Taft Benson

"Plan to build up your food supply just as you would a savings account. Save a little for storage each paycheck. Can or bottle fruit and vegetables from your gardens and orchards. Learn how to preserve food through drying and possibly freezing. Make your storage a part of your budget." ~Ezra Taft Benson

"Pride is concerned with who is right, humility is concerned with what is right." ~Ezra T. Benson

“Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.” ~Ezra Taft Benson

"Sometimes the veil between this life and the life beyond becomes very thin. Our loved ones who have passed on are not far from us." ~Ezra Taft Benson

"The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become." ~Ezra Taft Benson

"The privilege of holding the priesthood, which is the power and authority to act in God's name, is a great blessing and privilege and one that carries with it equally great obligations and responsibilities." ~Ezra Taft Benson

"The undermining of the home and family is on the increase with the devil anxiously working to displace the father as the head of the home and create rebellion among the children." ~Ezra Taft Benson

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St Basil of Caesaria - friendship

"He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." ~St Basil of Caesaria

George Washington Burnap - grand essentials

"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are: something to do, something to love and something to hope for." ~George Washington Burnap

John Wanamaker - mountain

"One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time." ~John Wanamaker

Dave Turner - dreams

"Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us." ~Dave Turner

Morris Mandel - sixty minutes

"The darkest hour has only sixty minutes." ~Morris Mandel

Herm Albright - attitude

"A positive attitude will not solve all your problems, but it will annoy other people enough to make it worth the effort." ~Herm Albright

11/27/12

Mx - faithful

"A man is only as faithful as his options." ~Hero, MX, Lost in Love, 27 February 2013

Chris Widener - important

"Don't do what is fun. Don't do what is easy. Do what is IMPORTANT! Live out your priorities! When you do, you will guarantee that you will make your day GREAT, every day!" ~Chris Widener

11/26/12

EMILY POST Quotes


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"A little praise is not only merest justice but is beyond the purse of no one." ~Emily Post, 1873-1960

"Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory." ~Emily Post, (1873-1960)

"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use." ~Emily Post

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Blaine Lee - Leadership

"The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players." ~Blaine Lee on Leadership

Suzy Greaves - life

"To start living a passionate life, you need to dig around and start getting back in touch with what you love, what you enjoy and what makes your heart sing." ~Suzy Greaves

Jimmy Durante - rain

"If you want the rainbow you've got to put up with the rain." ~Jimmy Durante

11/24/12

ROBERT GREENE Quotes



“Always say less than necessary.” ~Robert Greene (The 48 Laws of Power)


"But a tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to read out f its cage, and if it not tamed, it will run wild and cause you grief." ~Robert Greene

"Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content; The quiet mind is richer than a crowne."~Robert Greene (1558-92)

"The most important skill, and power's crucial foundation, is the ability to master your emotions." ~Robert Greene

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Quotes on BOOKS, LIBRARY and READING and LISTENING


A BOOK

A BOOK is a spell that can charm one away
On a cloud or a wing for a year or a day.
A book is a play that begins with a line
Woven from thought from the fabric of time.
A book holds a world of all that has been
Of dreams unfulfilled, of dreams yet unseen.
The things one imagines can really come true,
It can change someone's life -
It could happen to you.
~Dawn Lawrence, The People's Friend Special 2017

Paddington Library
September 21, 2019

“A library is a place vibrating with ideas .” ~Mary Kunhardt Lodge


"A book is a dream you hold in your hand." ~Neil Gaiman

A book is a gift you can open again and again.” ~Garrison Keillora

"A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out." ~G. C. Lichtenberg

“A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.” ~Salman Rushdie

"A book is like a tree. Light is needed to see the life and feel the soul of each word contained in every leaf, and produce the fruit of wisdom." ~Jeffrey Cejero 

"A book is like a window in which the beams of light shines through, the moment you open it." ~Leah C. Dancel, September 17, 2021

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us." ~Franz Kafka

"A book of quotations can never be complete." ~Robert M. Hamilton 

"A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it." ~Edward P. Morgan

 "A closed mind is like a closed book just like a block of wood." ~Chinese Proverb

"A good book can soothe away a lot of our pain!" ~Mary Balogh

"A good book makes you want to live in the story. A great book gives you no choice." ~ Anon

"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading." ~William Styron

“A home without books is like a tree without birds.” ~from Live Learn Library

Photo: Max Webber Library
Blacktown NSW 


"A library is home to hungry minds in search for knowledge." ~Leah C. Dancel,  July 14, 2021
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"A man's life consisteth not in the abundance of things which he possesseth"~ Anon

"A mind needs books as a sword needs a whetstone, if it is to keep its edge." ~George R.R. Martin

"A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read." ~Mark Twain

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only once." ~George RR. Martin

"A room without books is like a body without a soul." ~Cicero

"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight." ~William Robertson Davies

“An hour spent reading is one stolen from paradise.” ~Thomas Wharton

"Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him." ~Maya Angelou

"Any book worth banning is a book worth reading." ~Isaac Asimov

"Australians read more books per capita than any other nation and the Australian book industry is one of the most vibrant in the English-speaking world." ~Jon Page, Australian Booksellers Association president

"Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter." ~Paxton Hood

"Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller." ~Stephen Leveen

"Books are a diamond in the rough times." ~Anon

"Books are a uniquely portable magic." ~ Stephen King

"Books are cold and certain friends." ~Victor Hugo

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.” ~Mark Twain

“Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.” ~Edwin Percy Whipple from Chicken Soup for the Soul

"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out." ~Anon

"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them." ~Samuel Butler

"Books are like little immortal treats that I get to eat over and over again." ~Unattributed from Literature is my Utopia

“Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.” ~Glenda Millard, The Tender Moments of Saffron Silk

“Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could go to New Zealand.” ~Alan Bennett

"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house." ~Henry Ward Beecher

“Books are not my whole life, but they make my life whole.” ~Anon

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print." ~Barbara W. Tuchman

"Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life." ~Jesse Lee Bennett

“Books are uniquely portable magic.” ~Stephen King

"Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled 'This could change your life'." ~Helen Exley

"Books don't just go with you. They take you where you've never been." ~Isabella Thordsen

“Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” ~Plato

"Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secret of our own" -William Hazzlit

"Books, like friends, should be few and well-chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again - for like true friends, they never fail us, never cease to instruct us, never cloy." ~Elbert Hubbard

“Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.” ~Francis Bacon

"Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library." ~Michael Caine

"Do not lend your books to others, because they will not return them to you.  The books in my library are those that have been lent to me by others." ~Anatole France

"Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?" ~Virginia Wool

"Everyone is a reader. Some just haven't found their favourite book yet." ~Anon

"Every wrinkle on our faces is a story lived with courage, pride, smile, cry, love. I'm like the words of an open book, peeled by time, before the eyes of the world." ~Alda Merini

"Everything that is done in the world is done by hope." ~Martin Luther

“Fancy things never appealed to me. I like the sweet, simple things. I like to watch the sunrise on my old front porch with a warm cup of coffee. I like good books on rainy afternoons. I like to grow things. And I like the way it feels to be surrounded by real friends and people I love.” ~Brooke Hampton

"Few things are as lovely as having an uninterrupted hour with a good book." ~Stephen King

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." ~Anon


"Good friends,  good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life." ~Mark Twain

"Handle a book as a bee does a flower, extract its sweetness but do not damage it." ~John Muir

"He loved books, those undemanding but faithful friends." ~Victor Hugo

“He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.” ~Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“Hungry man, reach for the book: it is a weapon.” ~Bertolt Brecht

"I'm enjoying the sound of rain pattering on the roof of my cozy little abode. It is the perfect musical accompaniment to a good book." ~Edie Talley

"I am an open book in a closed book store. You'll have to read me through the window." ~Laura Wheeler

“I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn” ~Robert Frost

"I believe the nicest and the sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but those that bring simple little pleasures, following one after another softly, like pearls slipping off a string." ~ ~Lucy Maud Montgomery

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they made me." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me." ~Martin Buber

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” ~Groucho Marx

"I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul." ~Rumi

"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere." ~Clifford Geertz

"I lay on the bed and lost myself in the stories. Books are safer than other people anyway." ~Neil Gaiman

"I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The college library helped me to develop a broader aspect on life." ~Linus Pauling, Scientist (American Library Association "Libraries Change Lives" Campaign, 1995.)

"I read my eyes out, and cant read half enough. The more one reads the more one sees we have to read." ~John Adams

"I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place." ~Anne Tyler

 “I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had think of bottling.” ~Carlos Ruiz Zapon, The Angels Game 

"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see." ~John Burroughs

“I think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to make sense.” ~Harold Kushner

"I thought we were both on the same page but it turns out that we were reading different books." ~Anon

"I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren't in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets." ~Dolly Parton

"If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"If bookworms ruled the world, bookstores would have shopping carts." ~Books Direct

"If it is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish." ~S.I. Hayakawa (1906-1992)

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” ~Toni Morrison

“If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.” ~Thomas Carlyle on Reading

"If we could read the minds of other animals we would find only truths." ~A.D. Williams

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” ~Stephen King

"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need." ~Cicero

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.” ~ Haruki Murakami

“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.” ~Mark Twain

"In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own." ~Anna Quindlen

"In the fields, she stopped and took a deep breath of the flower-scented air. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. And for a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to absorb its old enchantment." ~Boris Pasternak

"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can." ~Jane Hamilton

"It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life." ~Victor Hugo

“It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.” ~Catherine M. Valente

"It takes a library to raise a child. " ~Goodwill Librarian Poster via BackChat Speech Pathology 

"It was books that made me feel that perhaps I wasn't completely alone." ~William Herondale 

"Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force." ~Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)

"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier." ~Kathleen Norris

"Keep reading. It's one of the most marvellous adventures that anyone can have." ~Loyd Alexander

"Keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little." ~Voltaire

"Knowing you have something good to read before bed is among the most pleasurable of sensations." ~Vladimir Nabokov

"Learn how to read the love letters sent by the wind and rain, the snow and moon." ~Ikkyu

“Lend us a book we can read up alone” ~Anon

"Let's be reasonable and add an eight day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading." ~Lena Dunham

"Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read." ~Cassandra Clare

"Life is like a book. You are the author and every day is a new page. If people in your life are turning it into a soap opera, get rid of them in your next chapter." ~FB/WICKED HUMOUR

"Love is the religion, and the universe is the book." ~Rumi

"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them." ~Charles Caleb Colton

“Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of their contents” ~Ezra Pound

"Men, like books, are large and small, quartos, folios and tiny volumes. Some are fairer bound than others, and some that lack in show make up in durability of binding and in the value of their contents. Some are pious and some profane, some full of wisdom and some full of folly, but each must have a final page with the word 'Finis'." ~Richard Gove

"Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.' ~George Eliot

“Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Libraries.”    ~Peter Porter

“My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity” ~Malcolm X

"My books are friends that never fail me." ~Thomas Carlyle

"My books need no one to accuse or judge you: the page which is yours stands up against you and says, "You are a thief." ~Marcus Valerius Martial on Plagiarism

“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.” ~Anatole France

"No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over." ~Eugene Field

“No matter how busy you may think you are you must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance.” ~Confucius

"No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader." ~Robert Frost

“Nobody reads a book to get to the middle.” ~Mickey Spillane

"Nothing like a good old hard copy of a book. The SMELL of the pages quite intoxicating, wanting to spread those covers and ravish those words within. The feel of your fingers caressing paper filled with scenes." ~Kay Swan Mills

"October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book." ~John Sinor

“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book resting unopened in its slot on the shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.” ~from The Boilerplate Rhino by David Quammen via Mary Balogh

"One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper." ~Michael Cunningham

“One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.” ~John Muir

"One of the best pleasures in life … is to read a book in total silence." ~Anon

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Our children no longer learn how to read the great Book of Nature from their own direct experience or how to interact creatively with the seasonal transformations of the planet. They seldom learn where their water comes from or where it goes. We no longer coordinate our human celebration with the great liturgy of the heavens." ~Wendell Berry

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." ~Groucho Marx

"Part of being a writer is being a strong, avid reader." ~Ann Eckhart

"People is like a book. It has so many chapters in their lives. Let’s not judge anyone from what we see and heard. Read the whole book and know the full story before we do. I think it’s being kind." ~Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo

“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.” ~Bill Watterson, The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

"Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read." ~Paulo Coelho

"Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river." ~Virginia Woolf

“Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.” ~Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Reading can seriously damage your ignorance." ~Mindset of Greatness 

"Reading forces you to be quiet in a world that no longer makes place for that." ~John Green

"Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge, it is thinking that makes what we read ours." ~Anon

"Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are." ~Mason Cooley

"Reading in bed before sleep, the luxury of entering another world as if from above..." ~Maxine Kumin

"Reading is a delightful pastime that increases knowledge." ~Leah C. Dancel, May 23, 2014

"Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the author's, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his." ~Bennett Cerf (1898-1971)

"Reading … is an activity subsequent to writing: more resigned, more civil, more intellectual." ~Jorge Luis Borges

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.” ~from "Agnes Grey" By Anne Brontë


"Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude." ~Marcel Proust

‪"Reading is the gateway to life." ~Mary Waite‬

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body." ~Joseph Addison

"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept on the stretch." ~R Steele

"Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. ... Reading is bliss." ~Nora Ephron

"Reading opens doors to a world of choice and opportunity." ~The Indigenous Literacy Foundation

"Reading something unfamiliar widens our horizon." ~Alex Umali

"Reading takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere." ~Hazel Rochman

"READING. That place where you're by yourself but you are never alone." ~Mary Balogh

"Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author’s words reverberating in your head." ~Paul Auster

"Reading won't fix the problem, but it will put me in a lot better mood when I feel like dealing with it." ~Anon

"Reading won't solve your problems. But then again, neither will housework." ~Susan Wiggs

"She reads books as one would breath air, to fill up and live." ~Annie Dillard

"Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again." ~Louisa May Alcott

"Some books are to be tasted; others to be swallowed; and some few to be chewed and digested." ~Francis Bacon

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Some of the most wonderful poems ever written by mankind are hidden in books old and dusty and long forgotten." ~Anon

“Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I would realize that I could endure this life because of these musicales going on in my head.” ~Orhan Pamuk, The New Life

"Speak Love: The story of your life isn’t written in a book, it’s told by the kindness in your heart." ~Robert Clancy

"The act of reading is a partnership. the author builds a house, but the reader makes it a home." ~J. Picoult

"The beauty of reading is that I can be here...  and there at the same time." ~Anon

"The best teachers teach from the heart, not from the book." ~Anon

"The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to be battered by them. It gives you access to a deep knowledge of how you would respond to things you would never, thank goodness, have been required to experience." ~Michael Silverblatt
The bookshop has a thousand books,
All colours, hues and tinges,
And every cover is a door
That turns on magic hinges."~Anon (TFBFG 1987/CAH)

"The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity." ~Israel Regardie

"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything." ~Robert Frost

"The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is." ~Allan Bloom (1930-1992) American Philosopher, Classicist, and Academic

"… the function and purpose of a library has changed throughout the history of humanity to meet the needs and requirement of the people at time." ~Kylie Wardell, QLD, excerpted from The Diary Files

"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap. It consoles. It distracts. It excites. It gives you knowledge of the world and experience of the wide kind. It is a moral illumination." ~Elizabeth Hardwick

"The health of our civilisation..... and our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries." ~Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

"The illiterate of the future are not those who can't read or write but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and re-learn. ~Alvin Tofler

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.” ~Mark Twain

"The more a child reads, the likelier they are able to understand the emotions of others," ~Anon, Book Facts

"The more we read books, the likelier our ability to understand better the emotions of others. Read. Take advantage of the Net." ~Rafael Alunan III, 8 January 2017)

"… the function and purpose of a library has changed throughout the history of humanity to meet the needs and requirement of the people at time." ~Kylie Wardell, QLD, excerpted from The Diary Files

"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past
centuries." ~Rene Descartes   

“The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease and intimacy with the process of writing; one comes to the country of the writer with one's papers and identification pretty much in order. Constant reading will pull you into a place (a mind-set, if you like the phrase) where you can write eagerly and without self-consciousness. It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what just lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.” ~Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page." ~St. Augustine

 "The world is a book. 
And we are all travellers.
The one who travels by foot ,
Only reads the chapter.
But the one who reads the book,
travels the whole world."
~Reynante Tammidao

“There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it." ~Bertrand Russell

"There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book." ~Anon

"There is a great deal to be learned from books and school but you also have to get out into the world and experience things for yourself." ~Sean Hemingway on what he's learned from his grandfather.


“There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees…in a real forest. Something emanates from those trees which speaks to the soul, something no book, no museum, is capable of giving … How often is the soul of man - especially that of a child - deprived because one does not put him in contact with nature.” ~Maria Montessori


"There is no friend as loyal as a book." ~Ernest Hemingway

"There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away." ~Emily Dickinson

"There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't." ~Gail Carlson Levine

"There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you." ~Doris Lessing

"There's so much more to a book than just the reading." ~Maurice Sendak

“They castrate the books of other men in order that with the fat of their works they may lard their own lean volumes.” ~Paulus Jovius (also known as Paolo Giovio)

"Thousands kiss the books outside, who never look within." ~Anon

"Three hundred years from now children will be learning about a lost art that has the ability to: enrich minds, increase intelligence, reduce stress, increase knowledge, increase concentration. It's called READING." ~Steven Aitchison

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.” ~W. Somerset Maugham

"To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open the book that tells of her past." ~Dr. Jose P. Rizal

"To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark." -Victor Hugo

"To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one." ~Chinese Proverb

"To read is to empowerTo empower is to writeTo write is to influenceTo influence is to changeTo change is to live." ~Jane Evershed

"We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority only read the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content." ~Emile Zola  

"We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful." ~Lord Henry from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

"We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth." John Lubbock

"We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books." ~W.E.B. Du Bois

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day." ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic." ~Carl Sagan

"When I want to read a good book I write one." ~Benjamin Disraeli

"When two people read books in each other’s company it is considered companionable silence, or mutual intellectual interest, or a romantic version of solitude from which one is sure they will surface shortly to discuss what they have read and marvel at each other’s insights." ~Emma Brockes

"When you read a line that is so well-written, you just close the book and stare at the wall for a minute." ~Anon

"Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books." ~Richard Wright

"Whenever you read a good book, somewhere in the world a door opens to allow
In more light." ~Vera Nazarian

"Wisdom discloses Truth in ways that cannot even be explained with a thousand books, a million teachings from religious figures, or a hundred million facts memorized and assimilated. Wisdom is so pure, that even language corrupts it." ~The Mind Unleashed

“Woe be to him that reads but one book.” ~George Herbert

"Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read." ~Raymond Carver
“You are the books you read, the films you watch,
the music you listen to, the people you meet,
the dreams you have, the conversations you engage in.
You are what you take from these.
You are the sound of the ocean, the breath of fresh air,
the brightest light and the darkest corner.

You are a collective of every experience you have had in your life.
You are every single second of every single day.
So drown yourself in a sea of knowledge and existence.
Let the words run through your veins and let the colors fill your mind
until there is nothing left to do but explode.
There are no wrong answers.
Inspiration is everything.
Sit back, relax, and take it all in.
Now, go out and create something.”
~Jac Vanek
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." ~C.S. Lewis

"You have woken up late, lost and perplexed. But don't rush to your books looking for knowledge. Pick up a flute instead and let your heart play." ~Rumi

"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." ~Paul Sweeney

"You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things. Why not go into the forest for a time, literally? Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books." ~C.G Jung

"You will be the same person you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read." ~Charlie Jones

"You will learn by reading, but you will understand with love." ~Shams Tabrizi

"Your life is a book; Make it a bestseller." ~Shannon Gray


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OTHERS:

“A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat.”
Katharine Whitehorn

"A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage." ~Robert McNamara

"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life." ~Henry Ward Beecher

“Anyone who says they have only one life to live must not know how to read a book.” ~Anon

"Being a bookworm means having non-fictional feelings for fictional characters." ~The Bookworm's Diary

"He  who has a garden and a library wants for nothing." ~Marcus Tullius Cicero 

“I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me.”  ~Tahereh Mafi

“I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.” ~Anna Quindlen 

"Our nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author." ~Jorge Luis Borges

"Take time to listen to tbose  things that speak without words." ~Samantha C. Lourie, Butterflies and Pebbles

"Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists.
When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves.
We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost.
That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence."
~Edmond and Jules de Goncourt

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Sadako Sasaki - peace

"I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world." ~Sadako Sasaki

Jonathan Sacks - Peace

"Peace can be agreed around the conference table, but unless it grows in ordinary hearts and minds, it does not last. It may not even begin." ~Jonathan Sacks

David Mitchell - ocean

"What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?" ~David Mitchell

Paul Brunton - test

"Every test successfully met is rewarded by some growth in intuitive knowledge, strengthening of character, or initiation into a higher consciousness." ~Paul Brunton

Quotes on BEAUTY, PERSONALITY and SMILE

Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
~Proverbs 31:30

"A beautiful face can't conceal an ugly heart for very long. Who you are on the inside eventually shows up on the outside." ~Anon

“A man who looks first to a woman’s outer beauty will never know her beauty divine, for there is dust upon his eyes and he is blind. … But a man who sees in a woman the spirit of the Great One and sees her beauty first in spirit and truth, that man will know “Divinity” in that woman” ~White Buffalo Calf Woman

"A plain woman is one who, however beautiful, neglects to charm." ~Edgar Saltus


"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness." ~John Keats

"A true partner or friend is one who encourages you to look deep inside yourself for the beauty and love you’ve been seeking." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"A woman's beauty is not measured by her outer appearance, but by the view of her heart to another human being." ~Anon

"Admire someone else's beauty without questioning your own." ~Anon

"All of life is a mirror...wherever you look, the beauty that you find is really your own!" ~Surf Reyes

“All the truth you’ll ever need to know is found when you trust the beauty in your heart.” ~Robert Clancy

"All the ugliness of the world can best be forgotten in the beauty of nature." ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow." ~from ANNA KARENINA by Leo Tolstoy

"And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!” ~Audrey Hepburn

"Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old." ~Franz Kafka

"As a white candle
In a holy place
So is the beauty
Of an aged face."
~Joseph Campbell

"As we grow old, the beauty steals inward." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"As we grow older, real beauty travels from the face to the heart, appeal turns to charm, hurt turns to wisdom, and great moments to shared memories. The true beauty of life is not how happy you are now, but how happy others are because of you." ~Kelly's Treehouse

"Basic beauty lies in the way a woman walks; it is health and an attitude to life." ~Nancy Astor

"Be Beautiful: Shine your beauty to the world as if it’s love's first precious kiss." ~Robert Clancy

"Be Radiant! Never underestimate the great tool you carry with you everywhere…your beautiful smile. It can touch the heart of an old friend, bring radiance to a stranger and most importantly, it can change your whole outlook on life when you share it with yourself." ~Robert Clancy
"Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll;
charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul."
~Alexander Pope
"Beauty alone can attract a man, but it cannot make him stay." ~Deep Thoughts online

"Beauty and goodness comes from the inside." ~Ronny's-G's Travels from B&P

"Beauty and grace command the world." ~Park Benjamin

“Beauty appears where there is an edge. A type of Courage. A fearlessness against the Unknown. Not where there is perfection.” ~Victoria Erickson (lifted from Roxanne's (Baeyens) Niche

"Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said." ~George Santayana

"Beauty attracts the eyes but personality captures the heart." ~Not Only Not Only Journals 

"Beauty awakens the soul to act." ~Dante Alighieri

"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself." ~Coco Chanel

"Beauty can be found in just about everything, but the greatest amount is found right there in your heart." ~Robert Clancy on Self- Worth

“Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.” ~Matt Hardy

"Beauty cleans the mind." ~Matt Haig

"Beauty comes from the expression and character in your face—not just its symmetry." ~Robert Jones

‪"Beauty emerges and grows ... regardless of circumstance." ~‬Heather McCloskey Beck

"Beauty exists at every age, it's not about youth and perfection." ~Anon

"Beauty exists not in what is seen and remembered, but in what is felt and never forgotten." ~Johnathan Jena

"Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them." ~David Hume

"Beauty is a form of genius — is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon." ~Oscar Wilde

"Beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of introduction." ~Aristotle

"Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us." ~Blaise Pascal

"Beauty is a kind of radiance. People who possess a true inner beauty, their eyes are a little brighter, their skin a little more dewy. They vibrate at a different frequency.
" ~Cameron Diaz

"Beauty is a light in the heart." ~Khalil Gibran

"Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever." ~Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character". ~Jane Seymour

"Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are." ~Ellen DeGeneres

"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?" ~George Bernard Shaw

"Beauty is art, you are the canvas." ~lifted from The  Beauty and Brow

"Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination."  ~Thomas Kinkade

"Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out." ~Audrey Hepburn

"Beauty is but a flower, which wrinkles will devour." ~Thomas Nashe

"Beauty is but the sensible image of the Infinite. Like truth and justice it lives within us; like virtue and the moral law it is a companion of the soul." ~George Bancroft

"Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror." ~Kahlil Gibran

“Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.” ~Thomas Kinkade

"Beauty is how you feel inside and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical." ~Sophia Loren

"Beauty is in the heart of the beholder." ~H. G. Wells

"Beauty is no quality in things themselves. It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty." ~David Hume

"Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life." ~Imelda Marcos

"Beauty isn't having a beautiful face. It's about having a beautiful mind, a good heart and a kind soul." ~Anon

"Beauty isn't having a beautiful face. It's about having a beautiful mind, a good heart and a kind soul." ~Anon

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart." ~Kahlil Gibran

“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.” ~Shannon L. Alder

"Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a way that makes them look like destiny or fate or meaning, the heroes of a remarkable story." ~Rebecca Solnit

"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword." ~Anon

"… Beauty is required in heart not in face....” ~APJ Abdul Kalam Azad

"Beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love." ~Evelyn Underhill

"Beauty is the illumination of your soul." ~John O'Donohue

"Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity." ~Oscar Wilde from "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

"Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men." ~Chinese Proverb

"Beauty is truth’s smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror." ~Rabindranath Tagore

"Beauty is whatever gives joy." ~Edna St. Vincent Millay

‪"Beauty‬ is when you can ‪appreciate‬ yourself. When you ‪‎love‬ yourself, that's when you're most ‪beautiful‬." ~Zoë Kravitz

"Beauty is woven through our ordinary days … Everywhere there is tenderness, care, and kindness, there is beauty." ~John O'Donohue

"Beauty lies within your heart. It shows." ~Leah C. Dancel

"Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity — I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly." ~Plato from THE REPUBLIC

"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears." ~Edgar Allan Poe

"Beauty Pageant is not all about winning a crown. It is also an adventure; life's school; an opportunity to build fun memories and to make new friends." ~Roxanne 'Niche' Baeyens

“Beauty, real everlasting beauty, lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It lives in what we do for ourselves and for others.” ~Justina Chen

"Beauty reveals itself in thousands of forms." ~Victoria Erickson

"Beauty speaks to us in moments." ~Bryant McGill

"Beauty starts in your head, not in your mirror." ~Joubert Botha

"Beauty surrounds us." ~Rumi

"Beauty talks in the language of the heart. The magnificence of a sunset, or of a violin concerto, cannot be adequately conveyed in words. Just as food nourishes our body, beauty nourishes our spirit. It inspires and challenges us to do great things. But you don’t need to be rich or powerful to enjoy the sublime pleasure of beauty. The only thing you need is the willingness to appreciate the beauty that is already around you - in nature, in other people, in works of art, architecture, music and literature. In a world where creativity and innovation are essential in every aspect of life, beauty is a powerful fuel for successful living." ~Ralph Marston

“Beauty will save the world.” ~Fyodor Dosteovsky  

“Beauty without intelligence is like a hook without bait.” ~Molière, Tartuffe

"Beautiful in my opinion, has nothing to do with looks. It's how you are as a person and how you make others feel about themselves." ~The Notebook of Life

"Beautiful isle of the sea, Smile on the brow of the waters." ~George Cooper

"Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, But beautiful old people are works of art." ~Anon

“Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.” ~Rumi

"Because your heart is so beautiful , everything looks beautiful to you." ~Zen proverb

"By God, when you see your beauty you will be the idol of yourself." ~Rumi

"Choosing beauty and love does not mean being uninformed or weak; it means you clearly see the ugliness, but choose love anyway." ~Bryant McGill

"Dimples enhance the beauty of a deity." ~Leah C. Dancel, October 14, 2017

"Creating beauty in the world is as simple as sharing a smile." ~Robert Clancy

"Don't let anyone or anything rob you of the beauty and meaning at the heart of life. It's your birthright gift." ~Parker J. Palmer

"Each day has so much beauty waiting for us to open our eyes in wonder." ~Anon

"Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside." ~Coco Chanel

"Enjoy the incredible beauty even in the smallest of things!" ~Dr. Susan

"Even in today's world, beauty and truth can still be found and the first place to start looking is within my own self." ~Thought for Today-UK

"Every beauty and greatness in this world is created by a single thought or emotion inside a man." ~Kahlil Gibran

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul." ~John Muir

"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it." ~Confucius

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." ~Audrey Hepburn

"For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it." ~Ivan Panin

"For me the greatest beauty always lies in the greatest clarity." -Gotthold Ephraim Lessing from BrainyQuote

"For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is Nature's finest balm." ~Edwin Way Teale

"Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness." ~Henry David Thoreau

"Goodness is beauty in the best estate." ~Christopher Marlowe

"‪How beauty is ephemeral in this transitory life we live until the Lord comes and beauty and joy and harmony becomes eternal." ~Romeo Balicongan‬

"How can so much beauty paint so much sadness as well?" ~Lorraine Marie T. Badoy, Social Welfare ASec

"How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin—that's what really makes you beautiful." ~Bobbi Brown

"I am not pretty.
I am not beautiful.
I am as radiant as the sun."
~Suzanne Collins

"I believe true beauty comes from the heart." ~Anon

"I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains." ~Anne Frank

"I love the Beauty of the reflection of the Beauty of the mountains and clouds above the surface of the water of the river." ~Leah C. Dancel, April 30, 2022 on the spectacular view of Lake  McDonald of Glacier National Park by Jack Bell Photography, #tonguetwister

"I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder." ~Salma Hayek

"I think beauty comes from within. If you’re happy and look at life in the best way you can, even when there are problems, it can make you beautiful on the outside." ~Faith Hill

"I think we grow up as girls having to deal with a lot of oppressive beauty myths. And Anne is a girl who fails by all standards of what is acceptable and beautiful. She's not pretty. She's not rich. She has no parents. But through sheer exercise of will she makes the world understand how beautiful she is. It's her specialness, her ability to transform how people perceive her, that audiences, particularly girls, want to believe in."-Megan Follows on her character, Anne Shirley

"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time." ~Robert Browning

"If man can do something awesome, have we considered how God has put order and beauty in the harmony of Creation and the Universe? With the billions of stars and galaxies the heavenly bodies follow a wonderful order. Praise the Lord of the Universe." ~Bro Joe Rona

"If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies, how very different our ideals of beauty would be." ~Anon

"If you could just believe in your own beauty, you could then believe in the beauty of others." ~Bryant McGill

"If you sing of beauty though alone in the heart of the desert, you will have an audience." ~Khalil Gibran

“If you sit in the darkness and write poems about the beauty of light, that doesn't mean you understand the importance of light! The whole point is to praise the light not when you don't have it but when you have it!” ~Mehmet Murat ildan

“If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.” ~Vincent Van Gogh

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." ~Marilyn Monroe 

"In my life and in my work, flowers represent so many positive things to me: spirit, creativity, happiness, love, and most of all, the natural world's persistent inclination towards beauty." ~Mary Engelbreit 

"...in the stillness of the night,
There is no truthful beauty but the stars." ~Rado Gatchalian

"Inner beauty is angelic. It is reflected from one's eyes and actions." ~Ekta Ahuja

"Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one’s self." ~Priscilla Presley

"Integrity reveals beauty." ~Thomas Leonard

"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being." ~John Joseph Powell

"It's beauty that captures your attention; personality which captures your heart." ~Anon

“It’s hard not to stand in awe and enchantment with the beauty in which nature expresses herself.” ~Steve Maraboli

"It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty." ~Leo Tolstoy

"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit." ~Robert Louis Stevenson

"It is the wordless wind that knows where every kind of beauty goes. And if you lose love in the end, say it was taken by the wind." ~George Dillon

"Keep the beauty inside your heart untarnished. Don't let greed and covetousness blemish that gem." ~Leah C. Dancel

"Leave beauty marks in the lives of those you meet, not scars." ~Matshona Dhliwayo

"Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." ~Rumi

"Let us live for the beauty of our own reality." ~Charles Lamb

"Let's teach our daughters it's not about being beautiful. Teach them to be bold. Be silly. Be strong. Be confident. Be independent and intelligent. Be brave and be fierce. Be real in a world full of fakes. Let's redefine beauty." ~Anon

"Life has dark moments and it is out of our darkness that we often find our greatest beauties and strengths." ~Bryant McGill

"Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind." ~Ashley Smith

"Life is the sunshine soul with the beauty of kindness!" ~Petros K.  Veloudas (Πέτρος Βελούδας), Greek Poet, The Response of Silence

"Look at light and admire its beauty. Close your eyes, and then look again: what you saw is no longer there; and what you will see later is not yet." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Look for the beauty in each day. See the light...smell the fragrance... listen to the birds sing..." ~I Must Be A Mermaid

"Looking far behind, finds beauty within." ~Arjoy Ceniza

"Love becomes an unlimited renewable resource the instant it’s powered by all the beauty within your priceless soul." ~Robert Clancy

"Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out." ~Jenn Proske

"Manifestation is like a flower, you must put so much intent into its energy before you can sight its beauty." ~Nikki Rowe

"May the flowers fill your heart with beauty." ~Chief Dan George

“May you always walk in Beauty.” ~ Black Elk 

“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”  ~Charles Dickens

"Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself is beautiful." ~Plotinus

"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting." ~Ralph Waldo Emerson 

"No amount of physical beauty will ever be as valuable as a beautiful heart." ~Anon

"No beauty shines brighter than that of a good heart." ~Anon

"No matter what people say, you will ALWAYS be beautiful." ~Abhi

"No other beauty can be greater than a woman whose confidence and strength exude from the inside." ~Kate De la Rue

"Nothing beautiful can be summarized." ~Paul Valery

"Nothing makes a woman more beautiful, than the belief that she is beautiful." ~Sophia Loren

"Notice the beauty within the simplicity of small moments." ~Healthy Goddess Living

"Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand." ~Khalil Gibran

"Our hearts are drunk with a beauty our eyes could never see." ~George W. Russell

"Outer beauty attracts, but inner beauty captivates." ~Kate Angell

"Outer beauty is a gift. Inner beauty is an accomplishment." ~Randi G. Fine

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within." ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"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." ~Salma Hayek

"People who are truly beautiful are always filled with beauty on the inside, which spills over to the outside." ~Fiona (The Healing Room)

"Rare is the union of beauty and purity." ~Juvenal from BrainyQuote

"Real beauty is about looking life right in the face and seeing all its magnificence reflected in your own." ~Valerie Monroe

"Sometimes there is sadness in our journey, but there is also beauty. We must keep putting one foot in front of the other even when we are hurting or we will never know what is waiting for us around the bend." ~Brigitte Nicole

"Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison." ~Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

"The appearance of things change according to the emotions and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves." ~Khalil Gilbran

“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.” ~Carl Sagan, Cosmos

"The beauty of being old is knowing that you did not get there alone and that you have a chance to get older." ~Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo

"The beauty one can find in art is one of the pitifully few real and lasting products of human endeavor." ~J. Paul Getty

"The beauties that we know: an amazing sunset, the taste of ripe fruit, the warm breeze of a spring day, a painting by Van Gogh, the music of Mozart; these things are not complete. They are merely hints of the real beauty that is." ~from DB, Vagabond Journeys

"The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way that she combs her hair. But the beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart. The place where love resides." ~Audrey Hepburn

"The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides." ~Anon

"The beauty of the soul gives charm even to the plainest of bodies, just as the ugliness of the soul destroys the magnificent creation." ~Amo Mama

"The beauty of your kindness can extend further and brighten the world more than you ever would have imagined in your wildest dreams." ~Lacey @ Things of Beauty

"The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always that of the soul." ~George Sand

"The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you." ~Rumi

"The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express." ~Sir Francis Bacon

"The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed." ~Ernest Hemingway

"The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities." ~Khalil Gibran

"The moon reflected in the water is not the real moon, but still it has tremendous beauty; and if the waters of your mind are silent, then the moon reflected in those waters is exactly the same." ~Osho

“The moon teaches us that darkness can’t hide the beauty of life if we know how to reflect beauty.” Debasish Mridha

"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." ~Joseph B. Wirthlin

"The most beautiful eyes are those that seek beauty in others." ~The Age of Enlightenment 

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths." ~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

"The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart." ~Rumi

"The pain passes, but the beauty remains". ~Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

"The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others." ~Anon

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"The sun glints through the pines, and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise. After that day. . . we become seekers." ~Peter Matthiessen

"The world has its own ways of treating us like what we will never be, but want to be. It relinquishes its grip on our souls while lulling us with the songs of freedom and conquest of beauty. It magnifies every tiny bit of something useless over an unfathomable presence of humanity. And we all waste the whole of our lives standing in queue for gaining its attention to be abdicated as if we never existed in the eyes of our fellow men.” ~Annie Ali

"The world will be saved by beauty." ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The world you live in is a mirror of yourself. Everything you hold to be true becomes your cage and your reality. If you perceive an imperfect world, it's because you fail to compassionately accept your own imperfections. If you find yourself condemning another, it is actually condemning some shamed part of yourself that you have not acknowledged. Reflect God in your mirror and you will perceive the world in kind and with love. The sense of beauty and goodness and worth you see in all, here and now, is His reflection breathing beauty and goodness and worth into you." ~Gilbert 'Gibo' Teodoro, Jr. (2017NOVEMBER07/TUESDAY [ADMIN 10])

"There are millions of smiles shared everyday, but only one as uniquely beautiful as yours." ~Robert Clancy

"There can never be a more beautiful you, than when you shine the way only you can. Today is your day to be that light!" ~Robert Clancy

"There is a beauty in pain.
The darkness has to be faced or there
is never a way to the light."
~Thomas Plummer

"There is a divine beauty and grace within all animals." ~Anthony Douglas Williams

"There is a divine beauty within all life. To feel this beauty is a spiritual experience." ~A.D. Williams

"There is a kind of beauty in imperfection." ~Conrad Hall

"There is beauty in every new season." ~The 700 Club

"There is beauty in the simple moments that life has to offer." ~Jason Rosenthal, TEDTalks 

"There’s more real beauty as we age, the beauty of wisdom, maturity, and growing in grace and knowledge that will never tarnish or disappear with time." ~Mirella Macatula 

"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness." ~Lady Blessington

"There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone’s spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that’s beautiful to me." ~Liv Tyler

"There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion." ~Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

"There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion." ~Edgar Allan Poe

"There is no reason for beauty. It just is." ~Erin Kellison

"There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty." ~Joseph Addison

"There is so much beauty in the world around us...as you acknowledge the beauty--even the smallest thing--beauty will acknowledge you." ~Bryant McGill

"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy." ~Ann Frank

“Those who find beauty in all of nature will find themselves at one with the secrets of life itself.”  ~L. Wolfe Gilbert

"To allow each moment to unfold on its own will reveal beauty unimagined." ~Alex Woodard

"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"To every soul you encounter, be a mirror, which reflects only their beauty." ~Bryant McGill

"To keep beauty in its place is to make all things beautiful." ~George Santayana

"To love beauty is to see light." ~Victor Hugo

"To walk in beauty with all things, we must connect with all things. Treat them seriously, with reverence. Beauty surrounds us." ~Anon

"True beauty is born through our actions and aspirations and in the kindness we offer to others." ~Alek Wek

"True beauty never fades." ~Leah C. Dancel, 26 April 2016

"We have the power to challenge and redefine beauty every day through our words and actions." ~Ben Barry

"We must be surrounded by beauty if our souls are to grow." ~M. Scott Momaday, Kiowa novelist

“We must begin thinking like a river if we are to leave a legacy of beauty and life for future generations.” ~David Brower

"We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it." ~Mary Oliver

“Were it not for shadows, there would be no beauty.” ~from "The Makioka Sisters" By Junichiro Tanizaki

"What riches are ours in the world of nature, from the majesty of the distant peak to the fragile beauty of a tiny flower, and all without cost to us, the beholders! No person is poor who has watched a sunrise or who keeps a mountain in his or her heart." ~Esther Baldwin York

"When one is in love, even the scars left by smallpox are as beautiful as dimples on a person’s cheeks." ~Anon

"When you allow life to happen, it will unfold its beauty like a newborn butterfly’s wings; today is the day to take flight and sail on the winds of love." ~Robert Clancy

"When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty." ~Kahlil Gibran

"When your heart rings, an angel sings for all the beauty love brings." ~Robert Clancy

"Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul." ~Alice Walker

"With age comes beauty and character." ~House of Fifty

“Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family.” ~Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

"You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing." ~Marie Carmichael Stopes

"You may look into your mirror and see flaws, but someone else looks at you, and only sees beauty." ~Anon

"You see behind the masks and beneath the fears to the beauty within every heart." ~Jim Johnson

"You will find beauty in every person and experience if beauty has been cultivated within. The supreme hallmark of reality is balance. Balance and fullness exists in the polarity of all things. How we choose to perceive affects how we partake of reality; narrowly or completely. When you succumb to cynicism, darkness, pessimism and sarcasm you are amplifying imbalance and negativity. Dominant negativity cheats reality of its mutual positives." ~Bryant McGill

"Your dazzling beauty is the result of your character integrity, your personal charm and your fantastic looks. Even your tiny flaws are enchanting because they make you more interesting! " ~Anon

"Your eyes are an ocean of beauty." ~Anon

"Your imperfections are marks of authenticity. And that is the beauty of you." ~Isaac Fowler

"Your outer beauty will capture the eyes; your inner beauty will capture the heart." ~Anon

"Your wings are beautiful, whether you spread them or not. but if you spread them you get to experience their beauty. And that's special. For you and the world." ~S.C Lourie

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” ~Franz Kafka

“Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.” ~Christian Dior


SMILE

"A frown will bring the sun down, but a smile will light a thousand miles." ~Robert Clancy

"A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles." ~Washington Irving

"A laugh is a smile that bursts." ~Mary H. Waldrip

"A smile can mean a thousand words, but it can also hide a thousand problems." ~Lessons Learned in Life

“A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.” ~Phyllis Diller

"A smile is a kiss of love that your heart gives to a stranger." ~Gineke van Keulen

"A smile is an act of kindness." ~A.D. Williams

"A smile is an inexpensive way to change your looks." ~Charles Gord

"A smile is complete when it begins in your heart, reflects in your eyes and ends with a glow on your face." ~ILMF

“A smile is the best make up a girl could wear” ~Marilyn Monroe

"A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside."~Denis Waitley

"A smile is the light in the window of your face that tells people you're at home." ~Anon

"A smile is the prettiest thing you can wear." ~Anon

"A smile is the shortest distance between two people." ~Victor Borge

"A miracle occurs every time you share a smile." ~Robert Clancy

"A smile radiates hope, more meaningful to those who border hopelessness" ~Dr. Abdullah Dangcal Alonto

"A warm smile is the universal language of kindness." ~William Arthur Ward

"A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy - the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love." ~Thomas C Haliburton

"A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears."~Anne Roiphe

"A world full of SMILES to me is foremost." ~Roxanne Niche

"Adding kindness to your life’s wardrobe is as simple as wearing a smile on your heart." ~Robert Clancy on Wear a Smile

"All smiles are created with love...and a sprinkle of angelic light." ~Robert Clancy

"Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"Bring me the flowers when I can see your beautiful face and smile, and can smell the fragrance, not when they would wilt and wither in the sun." ~Emilio Laxamana Aguinaldo

"Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier." ~Lord Alfred Tennyson

"I smile like a flower not only with my lips but with my whole being." ~Rumi

"If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"If it seems that everything is lost, I will smile and never count the cost... When at last our life on earth is through, I will share eternity with you." ~Edith Piaf, IF YOU LOVE ME

"If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile." ~Kurt Cobain

"If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile?" ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"In the eyes of the angels you’re a beautiful celestial masterwork created by God. Let the world see that art that’s showcased by your heart. All you have to do is light it up with a radiant smile." ~Robert Clancy

"Kindness acknowledges our humanity without making any assumptions or judgments ~ it just accepts what is and extends the helping hand or simply smiles a greeting to brighten the day..." ~Caloy Bueno

"Let my Soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts." ~Paramahansa Yogananda

"Never underestimate the light you bring to the world with your beautiful smile." ~Robert Clancy

"Nothing you wear is more important than your smile." ~Connie Stevens

"One smile has the power to:
Calm fears.
Soften stone walls.
Warm a cold heart.
Invite a new friend.
Mimic a loving hug.
Beautify the bearer.
Lighten heavy loads.
Promote good deeds.
Brighten a gloomy day.
Comfort a grieving spirit.
Offer hope to the forlorn.
Send a message of caring.
Lift the downtrodden soul.
Patch up invisible wounds.
Weaken the hold of misery.
Act as medicine for suffering.
Attract the companionship of angels.
Fulfil the human need for recognition.
Who knew changing the world would prove so simple."
~Richelle E. Goodrich

"Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind." ~Thich Nhat Hanh

"People asked how could I still keep smiling amidst the drenching rain. I said because I loved as much when it mattered, and still so much love remains." ~George Daniel Anos

"Smile and show your dimple;
you'll find it's very simple:
You can think of something comical
in a very little while.
Chase away the wrinkle;
sprinkle just a twinkle:
Light your face up,
just brace up and smile."
~Irving Berlin

"Smile is one of the most important part of your personality. It is a mirror that reflects the good things inside of you." ~Happy Heart Daily Inspiration

"Smile - sunshine is good for your teeth." ~Anon

"Smile, things are going to work out. You may not see it now, but you're being directed to a much greater happiness." ~Inspower

"Smiling can be a deliberate, intentioned act. When it is that, it becomes an act of creation, and a powerful tool. Be quick to smile, and quick to share your smile with others. You will light up your heart and light up the room." ~Neale Donald Walsch

"Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear and to hide every pain.” ~Anon

"Sometimes even the naughty smile of a little child brings gladness to the heart." ~‪Georix Alertze‬

"Sometimes it's better to just remain silent, and smile." ~FB/Our Happy Life Page

"‪The pride of keeping and preserving the value of simple things brings priceless smiles of pleasure and the satisfaction of contentment..." ~‬Caloy Bueno

"The sides of buildings should be like the tops of lakes. I’d fish through your window hoping to catch a smile." ~Jarod Kintz

"The smile that lights up a face brimming with love is the most beautiful in the entire world." ~Amma

“The world always looks better from behind a smile.” ~Anon

"There are a thousand ways to kneel and kiss the earth.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
~Rumi

"There is a divine beauty and grace within all animals." ~A.D. Williams

"Think about how much better this world would be if people would just smile at each other more often...You don't have to talk; you don't have to agree on anything; all you have to do is smile! Smiling breaks barriers; it eases tension, and it's the first step to making a new friend." ~Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human (from Mermaids of the Lake)

"To me nothing in the world is as precious as a genuine smile, especially from a child." ~Rumi

"True friends are the people who brighten your smile, everytime you're with them." ~Julia VeRost

"We live only to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting." ~from SAND AND FOAM by Khalil Gibran

"Wear a mask for a year...and it becomes your face." ~M. Scott Momaday, Kiowa novelist

"When someone paints your universe with their smiles, your heart becomes a beautiful starlit canvas." ~Robert Clancy

"When you wear a smile your entire world becomes the universe within my heart." ~Robert Clancy

"Who has a beautiful soul can't have an ugly smile." ~Marinela Reka

"You're never fully dressed without a smile." ~Martin Charnin

"You’d be surprised what a smile can hide." ~The Healing Nest

“You've got to get up every morning with a smile on your face, And show the world all the love in your heart, then people gonna treat you better. You're gonna find, yes, you will, That you're beautiful as you feel.” ~Carole King

"Your love should be a warm ocean breeze of smiles washing over someone's lips; an angel’s song whispering endlessly their ears; and the light of a thousand celestial sunrises radiating from your beautiful heart. That's love!" ~Robert Clancy

"Your smile brings beauty to both you and humanity." ~A.D. Williams

“Your smile lights up a room like a candle in the dark. I can still hear the song of your laughter.” ~Anon


OTHERS

"A butterfly lights beside us, like a sunbeam ... and for a brief moment it's glory and beauty belong to our world. But then it flies on again, and although we wish it could have stayed, we are so thankful to have seen it at all." ~Anon

"A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life." ~Lewis Mumford (1895-1990)

"A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely." ~Roald Dahl

"Angelic prose is all the beauty your precious heart will ever need to say." ~Robert Clancy

"Beauty sleep is real - scientists found that faces of well-rested people look younger and are more attractive than sleep-deprived people." ~FACTS, Twitter

"Charm is more valuable than beauty. You can resist beauty, but you can't resist charm." ~Audrey Tatou

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever."~Isak Dinesen

"Don't let the darkness steal the beautiful person you have inside." ~Anon

"Every beautiful thing you say to someone becomes a part of them and you." ~Bryant McGill

"Every woman has a right to be beautiful." ~June Dally-Watkins, Australia's Etiquette Queen

“Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world.”  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

"From pure sensation to the intuition of beauty, from pleasure and pain to love and the mystical ecstasy and death — all the things that are fundamental to the human spirit, are most profoundly significant, can only be experienced, not expressed." ~Aldous Huxley

"Have you ever sat alone in a forest and noticed how life persists, how your existence is unnecessary for the beauty you witness? ~Cheryl Quejada Canning

"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.” ~Plato

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies." ~Oscar Wilde

"Kindness is like snow - it beautifies everything it covers." ~Kahlil Gibran

"Faith sees a beautiful blossom in a bulb, a lovely garden in a seed, and a giant Oak in an acorn." ~William Arthur Ward

"Flowers are mother nature's way of telling us how much she loves us. What sunshine is to flowers, smiling faces are to us people: flowers are the smiles of our earth." ~Anon

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.” ~Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

"Life is not always perfect. Like a road, it has many bends, up and downs, but that's its beauty." ~Happy Family

"Life is simply a series of changes—some difficult, some wonderful, but isn’t that what the beauty of life is all about?" ~Robert Clancy

"May you walk gently through the world and know its beauty in all days of your life. " ~Native Americans

"May your life continue to bloom with beauty, day by day." ~Laura Hegfield

"Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people." ~Bryant McGill

"No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful." ~Eleanor Roosevelt

"No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." ~John Donne

"On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day." ~Rumi

"Our kids can teach us a lot about ourselves, including how we perceive our own beauty." ~Chicken Soup for the Soul

"Peace of mind is a beautiful thing to see, but peace of heart allows you to see the beauty in everything." ~Robert Clancy

“Poise is being aware of your surroundings and being flexible and adaptable. Poise is not something you are born with or can acquire overnight. It is something you must practice daily.” ~First Sun Team on Leadership

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." ~Saint Augustine

"Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts." ~Martin Buxbaum

"Some see no beauty in our trees without shade, our flowers without perfume, our birds who cannot fly, and our beasts who have not yet learned to walk on all fours. But the dweller in the wilderness acknowledges the subtle charm of this fantastic land of monstrosities. He becomes familiar with the beauty of loneliness." ~Marcus Clarke, 1846-1881, writer, poet

"Sometimes there is sadness in our journey, but there is also beauty. We must keep putting one foot in front of the other even when we are hurting or we will never know what is waiting for us around the bend." ~Brigitte Nicole

"Steeping my life in beauty brings color to my days and a song to my heart.” ~Thomas Kinkade

"That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful." ~Ninon de L’Enclos

"The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves." ~Khalil Gibran

"The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it, and CHANGE." ~UDandRoundabouts

"The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you." ~Rumi

"The HORSE, with beauty unsurpassed, strength immeasurable and grace unlike any other, still remains humble enough to carry a man upon his back." ~Amber Senti

"The most beautiful eyes are those who see everything with love and compassion." ~Nur Blessing

"The sun will go down - and when it does, who among us will appreciate its color, let alone its beauty?" ~Leah C. Dancel, December 8, 2011

"There are more fake guides and teachers in the world than stars. The real guide is the one who makes you see your inner beauty, not the one who wants to be admired and followed." ~Shams Tabrizi

"There is a beauty in pain. The darkness has to be faced or there is never a way to the light." ~Thomas Plummer

"To love beauty is to see light."  ~Victor Hugo

“True Beauty: More beauty is found in a simple act of kindness than you’ll ever see on the cover of a fashion magazine or in some other human ideal. Be beautiful today!” ~Robert Clancy

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly 🦋 but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty." ~Maya Angelou

"What you do, the way you think makes you beautiful." ~Scott Westerfeld

"You can be enchanting, in a pair of flats, showing very little skin. When you are living your best life, when you wear clothes to have fun, and there is a spring to your walk because joy lives inside the vessel that are your external imperfections, then you too have chanced upon the secret to what makes anybody, alluring." ~Hedda Tady,  May 1, 2021 (Allure in a woman)

“You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.” ~Confucius on Appearance

"You may remember a beautiful face for a few days but will remember a beautiful soul forever." ~From Joy of Mom

"Your heart becomes fully aware of its beauty the moment it connects with another’s." ~Robert Clancy

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