World Quotes - Page 12

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

sad things are beautiful only from a distance
therefore you just want to get away from them
from a distance of one hundred and thirty years
....i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful

How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.

Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world...

The world is not beautiful: And that, in a way, lends it a sort of beauty.

Just because the world often seemed to reward ugliness was no excuse to give up on beauty.

I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends. I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness . . .

When the demons of criticism have fled the thoughts, the Angels of beauty preside - oh cheerful sweet world exorcised!

Then there are these heavy perennial moments that suddenly unearth me, when the world takes on this ravaging clarity and you feel marooned, cut off from normality.

One day, while life is being incredible and interesting, I’m going to die.

Every person sees the world through lenses of his or her own design - individual goggles that alter focus and perspective as desired. For those who wish the world to be dark and ugly and unapproachable, it is. But for those who wish it to be beautiful, it is a garden playground blooming with bright, happy colors.

Why did the world go on being so beautiful in spite of the ugliness he had experienced? The lake was beautiful, serenely beautiful. The forest was beautiful, greenly beautiful. Lake and forest, the whole shimmering world was painfully beautiful. He loved this world, but he was too hurt to enjoy it.

A beautiful mind and a beautiful heart beautifies the world around.

It's a sad and beautiful world.

There are places which exist in this world beyond the reach of imagination.

Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.

The world was beautiful when looked at in this way - without any seeking, so simple, so childlike.

The real world reveals itself like surprise gifts on our doorstep, special moments that seem above and beyond the reality of others. These times are full, beautiful and meaningful beyond words, even when wrapped in pain.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.