CURATED COLLECTION

Finding Beauty in the World

Beauty is not a decoration added to life — it is something inside it, waiting for the right kind of attention.

50 quotes found

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The beauty of the world is almost the only way by which we can allow God to penetrate us.

—Simone WeilPhilosopher, Mystic & Activist

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.

—John KeatsPoet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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Beauty is but a fleeting breath that lives and dies in one brief day.

—Sarojini NaiduPoet & Activist

Industrial Age ERA • South Asia

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The world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese.

—Mary OliverPoet

Late Modern ERA • North America

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The garden was a place of refuge, a retreat from the world.

—Anita DesaiNovelist & Writer

Post-War ERA • South Asia

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The beauty of the Lord is endless, like the vastness of the sky.

—AndalPoet

Medieval ERA • South Asia

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Rain brings the world to life; what greater gift exists?

—TiruvalluvarPoet, Philosopher & Author

Ancient World ERA • South Asia

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Our village was small, simple, a world entire, oblivious to outside tumult.

—Tayeb SalihNovelist

Post-War ERA • North Africa

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Listen more often to things rather than beings.

—Birago DiopPoet & Writer

Early Modern ERA • West Africa

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The sound of autumn rain on distant mountains, faintly visible.

—Wang WeiPoet & Painter

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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White clouds embrace green mountains; clear water reflects jade.

—Wang WeiPoet & Painter

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

—Hans Christian AndersenAuthor & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Nordic

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I can hear you making small holes in the silence, rain.

—Hone TuwharePoet

Post-War ERA • Oceania

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Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.

—Albert CamusNovelist & Philosopher

Post-War ERA • Western Europe

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First winter rain, the world and I are young.

—Matsuo BashoPoet

Renaissance ERA • East Asia

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For without doubt, the world is one, and all things are related.

—Keri HulmeNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Oceania

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The world is a network of connections, not a collection of separate objects.

—Olga TokarczukNovelist & Essayist

Contemporary ERA • Eastern Europe

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We read the stars long before the world read us.

—Tāwini TetuanuiAuthor & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • Oceania

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The things that are in the one world are not severed from each other.

—AnaxagorasPre-Socratic Philosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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And the earth is your mother. She is in you and you are of her.

—Kahlil GibranPoet & Writer

Early Modern ERA • Middle East

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