"Beauty is not caused. It is."

Dickinson, Emily on beauty
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"There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty."

Addison, Joseph on beauty
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"Let there be nothing within thee that is not very beautiful and very gentle, and there will be nothing without thee that is not beautiful and softened by the spell of thy presence."

Allen, James on beauty
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"Things are beautiful if you love them."

Anouilh, Jean on beauty
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"Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."

Confucius on beauty
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"Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us."

Pascal, Blaise on beauty
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"No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?"

Dillard, Annie on beauty
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"There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief --a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you."

Eliot, George on beauty
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"Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."

Gibran, Kahlil on beauty
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"Beauty is whatever gives joy."

Nibley, Hugh on beauty
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"Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first."

Klee, Paul on beauty
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"Beauty is truth, truth beauty -- that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

Keats, John on beauty
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"A thing of beauty is a joy for ever: Its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness; but still will keep a bower quiet for us, and a sleep full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing..."

Keats, John on beauty
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"Beauty is only skin deep, but it's a valuable asset if you're poor or haven't any sense."

Hubbard, Kin on beauty
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"Dreaming permits each and everyone of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives."

Dement, William on dream
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"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tomorrow."

Dean, James on dream
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"Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away."

Clancy, Tom on dream
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"Follow your bliss."

Campbell, Joseph on dream
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"When you reach for the stars, you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud either."

Burnett, Leo on dream
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"You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however."

Bach, Richard on dream
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"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it."

Adams, Douglas on dream
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"We are given one life, and the decision is our whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind or whether to act and, in acting, to live."

Bradley, Omar Nelson on decisions
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"If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember this whole thing was started by a mouse."

Disney, Walt on dream
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"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."

Edelman, Marian Wright on dream
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"If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen."

DeVos, Richard M. on dream
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"There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not."

Kennedy, Robert F. on dream
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"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly."

Hughes, Langston on dream
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"You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own."

Hansen, Mark Victor on dream
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"If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?"

Hammerstein, Oscar on dream
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"To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do."

Gibran, Kahlil on dream
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"Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?"

Ellis, Havelock on dream
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

Eliot, George on dream
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"To dream anything that you want to dream, that is the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do, that is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself, to test your limits, that is the courage to succeed."

Edmonds, Bernard on dream
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"Treasure your relationships, not your possessions."

D'Angelo, Anthony J. on relationship
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"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."

King Jr. Martin Luther on dream
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"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal"

King Jr. Martin Luther on equality
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"Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius."

Disraeli, Benjamin on genius
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"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Edison, Thomas A. on genius
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"Accept your genius and say what you think."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on genius
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"All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself."

Kline, Peter on genius