We have always found the Irish a bit odd.
They refuse to be English.
- Winston Churchill
If you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- Somerset Maugham
I refuse to answer that question
on the grounds that I don't know the answer
- Douglas Adams
It's a funny thing about life;
if you refuse to accept anything but the best,
you very often get it.
- W. Somerset Maugham
The things of this world exist;
they are; you can't refuse them.
- Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching - Book One #2 - version by Ursula K. Le Guin
I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist.
I am willing to fight for peace.
Nothing will end war unless
the people themselves refuse to go to war.
- Albert Einstein
A Bill of Rights is what the people are
entitled to against every government,
and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
- Thomas Jefferson
I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What is true of the individual will be
tomorrow true of the whole nation
if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
- inscribed on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound
to the starless midnight of racism and war
that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood
can never become a reality...
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love
will have the final word.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Beauty is an outward gift,
which is seldom despised,
except by those to whom it has been refused.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is only the poor who pay cash,
and that not from virtue,
but because they are refused credit.
- Anatole France
If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it,
I should not mind a bit.
but if a friend of mine had a sorrow
and refused to allow me to share it,
I should feel it most bitterly.
If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me,
I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted
so that I might share in what I was entitled to share.
If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him,
I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.
- Oscar Wilde
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
Beauty is the bait which with delight
allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Socrates
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty,
believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
- Louisa May Alcott
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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.
Live your life to the fullest potential,
and fight for your dreams.
- Ashley Smith
THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
We live in a wonderful world that is
full of beauty, charm and adventure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have
if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Jawaharlal Nehru
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
There is beauty and serenity in the eye of the storm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The sculptor produces the beautiful statue
by chipping away such parts of the marble block as are not needed -
it is a process of elimination.
- Elbert Hubbard
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
- Khalil Gibran
Beauty without expression is boring.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
- Jewel (paraphrasing Plato)
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
It is amazing how complete is the delusion
that beauty is goodness.
- Leo Tolstoy
To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity
in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein
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
Wisdom I know is social.
She seeks her fellows.
But Beauty is jealous,
and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- Thomas Jefferson
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
Smiles when sadness intrudes,
Rainbows to follow the clouds,
Laughter to kiss your lips,
Sunsets to warm your heart,
Hugs when spirits sag,
Beauty for your eyes to see,
Friendships to brighten your being,
Faith so that you can believe,
Confidence for when you doubt,
Courage to know yourself,
Patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
- Anonymous
By plucking her petals,
you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty, never grows old.
- Franz Kafka
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
- Henry David Thoreau
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
- John Muir
I look forward to an America which
will not be afraid of grace and beauty.
- John F. Kennedy
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful,
for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
out-values all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Take time today to appreciate beauty -
natural beauty, art, people.
Slow down, breathe deeply, smile.
It's a beautiful world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- Rumi
You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like Beauty, Joy and Suffering are
in the Eye of the Beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
See beauty in the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Choose to See Beauty and Joy:
Much in life can be seen as ugly or beautiful - it's our choice.
Why would we choose to see any part of life as ugly?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The beauty of facing life unprepared is tremendous.
Then life has a newness, a youth;
then life has a flow and freshness.
Then life has so many surprises.
And when life has so many surprises,
boredom never settles in you.
- Osho
Look closely... See with new eyes...
Don't just pass by what is familiar without a thought.
Pay attention and look closely.
There is beauty - there is discovery -
there in a whole new world hiding
beneath the face of the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When I am working on a problem,
I never think about beauty,
but when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds
her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore
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