Alan Watts Quotes, Beautiful Quotes, Depressing Quotes

To the Taoist mentality, the aimless, empty life does not suggest anything depressing. On the contrary, it suggests the freedom of clouds and mountain streams, wandering nowhere, of flowers in impenetrable canyons, beautiful for no one to see, and of the ocean surf forever washing the sand, to no end.

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When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Regret Quotes

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really been through are childhood and youth. And though we would not have them back again on any account, we feel that they are both beautiful, because we have drunk them dry.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Love Quotes , Beautiful Quotes

You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Dream Quotes

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Sight Quotes

THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Girl Quotes

Daniel Levitin takes the most sophisticated ideas that exist about the brain and mind, applies them to the most emotionally direct art we have, our songs, and makes beautiful music of the two together.

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Tags : Adam Gopnik Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Song Quotes

There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself.... Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth.

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Tags : Swami Vivekananda Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Butterfly Quotes

I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Wise Quotes

It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Love Quotes , Beautiful Quotes

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

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Tags : Khalil Gibran Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Spiritual Quotes

The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it's so unimaginably immediate.

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When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world, I thank God I am alive.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Good Morning Quotes , Beautiful Quotes

How beautiful to have the church always open, so that every tired wayfaring man may come in and be soothed by all that art can suggest of a better world when he is weary with this.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Art Quotes

I am used to being beautiful. I have been beautiful for so long that it is an essential part of me. I would not be the same spiritually if I had not been beautiful.

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Tags : Aino Kallas Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Beautiful Quotes

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Beautiful Quotes

Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish, game or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two pennyworth of beautiful soup?

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Games Quotes

What matters is how you feel inside, because feeling beautiful on the inside is key to looking good.

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Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , What Matters Quotes

Neither do the ignorant love wisdom or desire to become wise; for this is the grievous thing about ignorance, that those who are neither good nor beautiful think they are good enough, and do not desire that which they do not think they are lacking.

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Tags : Plato Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Wise Quotes

Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good.

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