Posts tagged ‘Beauty’

Jul 10

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“Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.” –Lucius Apuleius

Welcome to our second flight of Priceless Ads. As in the first flight, every Priceless ad in this series delivers a familiar massage. In your priceless comment(s) about the massage that you receive, again and again, please don’t hold back your true feelings.

“Contempt is a terrible thing to waste.” *–Max Im**

Max Im is the pun name of a pen name with a case of aphorism, which causes one to shoot its mouth off. The rest of the Max Im* quotes in this post go without citation, lest familiarity with a pun name breed groans beneath contempt.

Sep 23

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“My favorite poem is the one that starts ‘Thirty days hath September’ because it actually tells you something.” ―Groucho Marx

Libra’s gift
Balancing star charms
Akimbo

I always feel more grounded and stable when I have balance in my life; I’m a Libra! —Laura Regan

Sep 14

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“Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.” ―Khalil Gibran

Fierce beauty
Excites sights we greet
In great dreams

To love beauty is to see light. —Victor Hugo

Feb 2

“Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.” —Théophile Gautier

If it’s true beauty is more than skin-deep
Is it in fat’s, muscle’s, nerve’s, or bone’s keep
Does beauty through the human form seep
Pooling deep as dreams in duvets of sleep

The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread

―D. H. Lawrence

Aug 4

“Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.” ―Mason Cooley

Ghosts fear it. Crooks smell it. Clowns wear it. Mimes yell it. Painters smear it.

“I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.”

―Joan Miro

Aug 2

“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.” ―Ludwig Wittgenstein

A body of art is illuminated from the inside, or the outside is just another pretty hide.

“It takes more than just a good looking body. You’ve got to have the heart and soul to go with it.”

―Epictetus

Mar 18

“This universe can well be expressed in words and syllables which are not those of one’s mother tongue.” —Tahar Ben Jelloun

If we spoke with one tongue, would civilization be civil?

“If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jun 1

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“All the things that I find beautiful have a darkness about them.” –Paloma Faith

In the beginning, out of darkness blooms a picture-perfect day in a garden of beauty’s light. By the weekend, though, it’s afterglow, and before you can say fig leaf, dark.

“An age is called dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people fail to see it.” –James A. Michener

Nov 30

“Beauty is in the strangest places. A piece of garbage floating in the wind. And that beauty exists in America. It exists everywhere. You have to develop an eye for it and be able to see it.” –Alan Ball quote

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Nov 22

“Keep it simple stupid.” – Kelly Johnson quote