It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony.
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Related It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: o... BENJAMIN BRITTEN [Music has] the beauty of disappointment & never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, & everl... BENJAMIN BRITTEN [Music has] the beauty of disappointment & never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, & ever... BENJAMIN BRITTEN And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY God is the most beautiful, and beauty is the expression of God. If you can't appreciate beauty in th... AMIT RAY Nature is amazing wonder. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we w... TOM ALTHOUSE It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy p... ESTHER DALSENO What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely-mingled element... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied. AMIT RAY Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us. AMIT RAY We are all in the middle of nature beauty contest. TOBA BETA The wondrous beauty of the flowers grant pleasure never forgotten SYLVIA MORGAN Life is full of special moments.
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but the beauty is a only seen, your eyes wants to... ARVIND YADAV Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�... CHERYL R COWTAN The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth. True featu... LORD SHAFTESBURY Blues and soul and jazz music has so much pain, so much beauty of raw emotion and passion. CHRISTINA AGUILERA Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Everywhere you go, you shall find dramatic splendor and awe because your majestic soul is part of th... KILROY J. OLDSTER We all have a choice—to be monsters or men. It is not a matter of blood, but a condition of the he... ELIZABETH D. MARIE Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the... ALBERT EINSTEIN Nonviolence is only for the brave men and women of the world because it requires courage – courage... AMIT RAY The kindness that we receive from others in life, is also the kindness that we will want to give. Th... C. JOYBELL C. Outward beauty is the frame for the masterpiece of your soul. SHANNON L. ALDER It is one of the perils of our so-called civilized age that we do not yet acknowledge enough, or che... MARY OLIVER Strength is the vitality and virility of Wisdom. Beauty is the apparitional status of Wisdom. Wisdom... AARON SANTOS All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is
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play cards with a man named Doc. And... PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
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entry. PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended
it to happen. PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
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there is a problem. PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again. PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends. PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely. PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the ... PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of ... PAUL DICKSON Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
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the resulting unreliability becom... PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
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you want to transfer to is on time... PAUL DICKSON Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice
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time. PAUL DICKSON A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
out of. PAUL DICKSON Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not
entitled to know. (2) If you don't like ... PAUL DICKSON A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason. PAUL DICKSON A free agent is anything but. PAUL DICKSON The tangible and factual components of reality along with the intangible strands of memory and imagi... KILROY J. OLDSTER When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ... HENRY HON The beauty of nature, like every other kind of beauty, is quite jealous; it demands that one serve i... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. SAINT AUGUSTINE Life is always more beautiful and worth living when you are capable of enjoying the beauty of nature MUNIA KHAN One must give up a little character, the main source of beauty, at a beauty shop. Character is impor... BOBBY W. MILLER Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars. CARL SAGAN It is as if the stuff of which we are made were totally transparent and therefore imperceptible and ... GREGORY BATESON You will be facing unexpected challenges and have new experiences, but that’s the beauty of life. ... LILY AMIS If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meani... AVA DELLAIRA You fought and fought to keep all the cruelty locked up in your head, and for what? None of them eve... ROSAMUND HODGE I love the beauty of nature. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Today, young girls measure the quality of their beauty based upon its entertainment value. The more ... C. JOYBELL C. At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w... RICK RIORDAN 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 Each day before the end of eve she sought her lover, nor would him leave, until the stars ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exac... KARL LAGERFELD Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty that depends on fancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, o... FRANCINE RIVERS All in the eye of the beholder - Some of the most destructive forces in the world (Fire & Water)... MARTIN R. LEMIEUX In my perception and self - awareness of life, I see the big picture ~ I see my self ~ the place of ... ANGIE KARAN Birth and Death are words we chose to describe the doorways in and out of a cycle. This cycle is con... FRANKLIN GILLETTE Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings sta... KILROY J. OLDSTER God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c... JOHN PIPER Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor... CARRIE RYAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming. SARU SINGHAL People's abuse through journalism should not be taken us freedom of press. OSCAR AULIQ-ICE
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