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It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty


Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

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LEO TOLSTOY The beauty of grace is that it makes life not fair
RELIENT K The beauty of grace is that it makes like not fair.
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SHARON TATE Talent doesn't see beauty but your talent makes you beauty.
KOWSALAPATHY There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISON There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.
JOSEPH ADDISON Color contributes to beauty, but it is not beauty. Color should have a minor part in the considerati...
JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN Beauty is not what you're looking at, its what you see.
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HENRY JAMES It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance... and I know of no substitute whatever ...
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MAX EASTMAN There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so inter...
JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Let fear once get possession of the soul, and it does not readily yield its place to another sentime...
LEO TOLSTOY The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.
L.M. MONTGOMERY To love beauty is to see light.
VICTOR HUGO Nothing,' wrote Tolstoy, 'can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpe...
GRETCHEN RUBIN Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, w...
RAINER MARIA RILKE An artist must know the reality he is depicting in its minutest detail. In my opinion we have only o...
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SHANE J VAN DER VELDE Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, bea...
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BENJAMIN DISRAELI Every phase of love has its beauty.
LAYLA MORGAN WILDE The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of th...
SOURCE UNKNOWN All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Darkness has its own beauty that you can only see with your inner light.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.
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UNKNOWN Realists see the world as it really is in all of its beauty and all if its horror.
TERENCE T. GORSKI I don't believe that my first name is Leo or that my last name is Tolstoy. I'm a storyteller...
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ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, th...
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JOHN O'DONOHUE for you to see beauty here
does not mean
there is beauty in me
it means there is beau...
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it
CONFUCIUS Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.
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JOHN O'DONOHUE Love is what makes you bloom like a flower with a smile, beauty and fragrance.
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN a chance to see its beauty with their own eyes.
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SHAIKH ASHRAF Beauty isn't really beauty if it fades. Its a glimpse, a flicker of hope to carry you on. It's that ...
NICOLE SHURRI HASTINGS She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet s...
LEO TOLSTOY He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was l...
LEO TOLSTOY Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all.
LUIS BARRAGAN The beauty of beauty is the very centre of beauty. For sometimes its just a superficial coating to u...
IAN IJH HOWELL Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us ...
CLIVE BARKER Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is ...
FRANK ZAPPA Love is the beauty of the soul.
SAINT AUGUSTINE You are not born with beauty, your beauty is created by who you are. Your inner beauty is more impor...
EMILY COUSSONS Love is never about beauty of the face,but it should be about beauty of the place & circumstance whe...
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JOEL CARMICHAEL What Tolstoy is on about is that carnal love is not a good idea.
TOM STOPPARD Beauty is not about make up it’s about what it makes you to be from within.
AMIT ABRAHAM People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thi...
SALMA HAYEK It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that su...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON One can only see a flowers true beauty not when its in full bloom but on how it came to be.
ELYMOR JAN B. HERNANDEZ When we hear the word 'beauty', we inevitably think that beauty belongs in a special elite r...
JOHN O'DONOHUE What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint.
KAZUO ISHIGURO We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has not superfluous parts; which exactly answers it...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Beauty is like the storm. Beauty has its natural motions. A calmness of spirit signals its arrival. ...
ANURADHA BHATTACHARYYA The beauty that lies hidden, makes my soul tremble with awe.
PATRICIA ROBIN WOODRUFF Beauty can be like that. Beauty cannot be trusted. Beauty can slip through your fingers like water a...
CASSANDRA CLARE Beauty can be like that. Beauty cannot be trusted. Beauty can slip through your fingers like water a...
CASSANDRA CLARE I love my beauty. It's not my fault.
VALENTINO GARAVANI Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
FRANK NORRIS Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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LEO TOLSTOY People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most libera...
SALMA HAYEK What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows ...
KAZUO ISHIGURO Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty...
FRANZ KAFKA Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty...
FRANZ KAFKA Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty ...
FRANZ KAFKA We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a soc...
VIRGINIA POSTREL In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that b...
SHANNON L. ALDER Beauty is not defined by your physical features. It is defined by the heart inside your chest and th...
IMANIA MARGRIA Every woman has its beauty, but not every man can recognize it.
ALAA ABI JOMAA The love of beauty in its multiple forms is the noblest gift of the human cerebrum.
ALEXIS CARREL Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNE Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.
JOHN DONNE Stand in the sunshine of love. Bathe in the beauty that is life, that is you. Put love into everythi...
AKIROQ BROST Mastery over the body - its impulses, its needs, its size - is paramount; to lose control is to risk...
CAROLINE KNAPP Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everyt...
OSCAR WILDE Narcissus does not fall in love with his reflection because it is beautiful, but because it is his. ...
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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE I love beauty. But I like the beauty accidentally, not dished up, served up on a platter.
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LEO TOLSTOY All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.
LEO TOLSTOY Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wid...
LEO TOLSTOY Joy can only be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in...
LEO TOLSTOY Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
LEO TOLSTOY I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom a...
LEO TOLSTOY The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.
LEO TOLSTOY How can one be well...when one suffers morally?
LEO TOLSTOY The Kingdom of God is within you.. and all beings.
LEO TOLSTOY It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he...
LEO TOLSTOY Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
LEO TOLSTOY But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest.
LEO TOLSTOY Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?
LEO TOLSTOY There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.
LEO TOLSTOY There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
LEO TOLSTOY War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within the...
LEO TOLSTOY The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffer...
LEO TOLSTOY It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
LEO TOLSTOY Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.
LEO TOLSTOY Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continue...
LEO TOLSTOY Boredom: the desire for desires.
LEO TOLSTOY If you want to be happy, be.
LEO TOLSTOY Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.
LEO TOLSTOY He had never thought the question over clearly, but vaguely imagined that his wife had long suspecte...
LEO TOLSTOY Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else i...
LEO TOLSTOY Everything intelligent is so boring.
LEO TOLSTOY I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others tha...
LEO TOLSTOY Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.
LEO TOLSTOY Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the histori...
LEO TOLSTOY A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti...
LEO TOLSTOY The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their app...
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