Beauty and the Heart

Beauty  

  1. 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. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.  Elizabeth Kubler Ross
  2. Pretty is something you’re born with. But beautiful, that’s an equal opportunity adjective.  Author Unknown
  3. 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 Stopes
  4. Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty – they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.  Martin Buxbaum
  5. The difference between pretty and beautiful is-pretty is temporal-whereas beautiful is eternal.  Author Unknown
  6. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  7. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.  Rachel Carson
  8. 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
  9. You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.  Henry David Thoreau
  10. Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see Beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see Beauty never grows old.  Frank Kafka
  11. There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.  John Kenneth Galbraith
  12. Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.  Anne Frank
  13. The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.  Albert Einstein
  14. The recipe for beauty is to have less illusion and more Soul, to retreat from the belief of pain or pleasure in the body into the unchanging calm and glorious freedom of spiritual harmony.  Mary Baker Eddy
  15. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  Margaret Wolfe Hungerford
  16. That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.  Ninon de L’Enclos
  17. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.  Franz Kafka
  18. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen, nor touched … but are felt in the heart.  Helen Keller

The Heart

  1. Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  2. Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.  Aristotle
  3. Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart.  Mevlana Rumi
  4. I would rather have eyes that cannot see; ears that cannot hear; lips that cannot speak, than a heart that cannot love.  Robert Tizon
  5. If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.  Marc Chagall
  6. In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.  Mahatma Gandhi
  7. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  8. My mind tells me to give up, but my heart won’t let me.  Author Unknown
  9. Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.  Zelda Fitzgerald
  10. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.  Paulo Coelho
  11. The heart has reasons that reason does not understand.  Jacques Benigne Bossuel
  12. The human heart feels things the eyes cannot see, and knows what the mind cannot understand.  Robert Valett
  13. The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.  Deepak Chopra
  14. There are many things in life that will catch your eye, but only a few will catch your heart…pursue those.  Michael Nolan
  15. What is uttered from the heart alone,
    Will win the hearts of others to your own.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  16. What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  17. When you stop putting yourself on the line, and you don’t touch your own heart, how do you expect to touch other people?  Tori Amos
  18. Wherever you go, go with all your heart.  Confucius
  19. A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.  Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
  20. A person’s world is only as big as their heart.  Tanya A. Moore
  21. If wrinkles must be written upon our brow, let them not be written upon the heart; the spirit should not grow old.  James A. Garfield
  22. In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.  Antonio Porchia
  23. Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.  Author Unknown
  24. Only do what your heart tells you.  Princess Diana
  25. The greatest treasures are those invisible to the eye but found by the heart.  Author Unknown
  26. Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.  Shigenori Kameoka

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