girl quotes about beauty

I put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which you are looking forward to, could be completely effected at this very instant: would this be a great joy and happiness to you?" And an irrepressible self-consciousness distinctly answered, "No!" ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1909



Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ~Andre Gide



The historian amputates reality. ~Gaetano Salvemini, Historian and Scientist



We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



The true man walks the earth as the stars walk the heavens, grandly obedient to those laws which are implanted in his nature. ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911



America is just the country that shows how all the written guarantees in the world for freedom are no protection against tyranny and oppression of the worst kind. There the politician has come to be looked upon as the very scum of society. ~Peter Kroptkin, speech, 1891



Life is like riding a bicycle - in order to keep your balance, you must keep moving. ~Albert Einstein



You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him. ~Leo Aikman



Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



My mom blames California for me being a lesbian. "Everything was fine until you moved out there." "That's right, Mom, we have mandatory lesbianism in West Hollywood. The Gay Patrol busted me, and I was given seven business days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe. ~Coley Sohn



Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise. ~Samuel Lover



All generalizations are bad. ~R.H. Grenier



A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows. ~George Bernard Shaw



The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson Henderson



The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. ~Emile Zola



Life shouldn't be printed on dollar bills. ~Clifford Odets



I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side. ~Katharine Butler Hathaway



Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion. ~Lin Yutang



If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. ~Socrates



The sixth grade seemed to please him from the beginning: he went through a brief Egyptian Period that baffled me - he tried to walk flat a great deal, sticking one arm in front of him and one in back of him, putting one foot behind the other. He declared Egyptians walked that way; I said if they did I didn't see how they got anything done, but Jem said they accomplished more than the Americans ever did, they invented toilet paper and perpetual embalming, and asked where would we be today if they hadn't? Atticus told me to delete the adjectives and I'd have the facts. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 7