“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” — Albert Einstein
Posts tagged ‘Beauty’
Sep 16
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Jul 10
“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
“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
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Sep 14
“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
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“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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