Edna St. Vincent Millay Sayings and Quotes
Sayings by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Beauty Sayings
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie 
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
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Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Even from the darkest night songs of beauty can be born.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
When you are reluctant to change,
think of the beauty of autumn.
- V. B. Brown
See beauty in the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
- John Muir
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
Flowers are Nature's messengers -
reminders of an unspeakable beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
- Rumi
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
It is amazing how complete is the delusion
that beauty is goodness.
- Leo Tolstoy
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
- Henry David Thoreau
When I admire the wonders of a sunset
or the beauty of the moon,
my soul expands in the worship of the creator.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There is beauty and serenity in the eye of the storm.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Like Beauty, Joy and Suffering are
in the Eye of the Beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
Beauty without expression is boring.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
- Jewel (paraphrasing Plato)
THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
By plucking her petals,
you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty, never grows old.
- Franz Kafka
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds
her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise.
- George Washington Carver
Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.
- Khalil Gibran
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful,
for beauty is God's handwriting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A thing of beauty is a joy forever:
its loveliness increases;
it will never pass into nothingness.
- John Keats
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
out-values all the utilities of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom I know is social.
She seeks her fellows.
But Beauty is jealous,
and illy bears the presence of a rival.
- Thomas Jefferson
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity
in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.
- Albert Einstein
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
Not Sayings
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu
A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Every child comes with the message
that God is not yet discouraged of man.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart -
not from the mind.
- Sheri Rosenthal
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past,
but by the love we're not extending in the present.
- Marianne Williamson
To know yet to think that one does not know is best;
Not to know yet to think that one knows
will lead to difficulty.
- Lao Tzu
Where fear is, happiness is not.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal
Adventure is not outside man; it is within.
- George Eliot
It's not the size of the dog in the fight,
it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
- Anonymous
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero
Life is not supposed to be fair.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
Everything is a miracle,
not just the beautiful and lovely things.
- Anonymous
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
- Oscar Wilde
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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