It is amazing how complete is the delusion
by Leo Tolstoy
It is amazing how complete is the delusion
that beauty is goodness.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Sayings by Leo Tolstoy
If you want to be happy, be.
- Leo Tolstoy 
Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo Tolstoy
There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy
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Amazing Sayings
It is amazing how much you can accomplish
when it doesn't matter who gets the credit.
- Anonymous
Complete Sayings
A man's interest in a single bluebird
is worth more than a complete but dry list
of the fauna and flora of a town.
- Henry David Thoreau
Delusion Sayings
The final delusion is the belief
that one has lost all delusions.
- Maurice Chapelain
Beauty Sayings
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The beauty does not live out there;
the beauty's in my eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius
Beauty is whatever gives joy.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
There is beauty and adventure in the commonplace
for those with eyes to see beyond.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
- Anne Frank
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
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.
- John Muir
To love beauty is to see light.
- Victor Hugo
We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray
See beauty in the familiar.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is the beauty of the soul.
- Saint Augustine
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
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I don't think of all the misery
but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
- Anonymous
The most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen or even touched,
they must be felt with the heart.
- Helen Keller
We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children
that makes the heart too big for the body.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not blame the thistle that you see no beauty.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There is beauty and serenity in the eye of the storm.
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Like Beauty, Joy and Suffering are
in the Eye of the Beholder.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Through Love and through Beauty, we achieve immortality.
- Jewel (paraphrasing Plato)
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
Go ahead. Weep for the rare,
the never seen this way again,
the excruciating, ineffable,
unmitigated beauty of love.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Beauty without expression is boring.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds
her own face in a perfect mirror.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty, never grows old.
- Franz Kafka
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
By plucking her petals,
you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
- Rabindranath Tagore
THE fog comes
on little cat feet.
It sits looking
over harbor and city
on silent haunches
and then moves on.
- Carl Sandburg
As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.
- 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
Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty
out-values all the utilities of the world.
- 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
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
- Marilyn Monroe
Goodness Sayings
Be open to the goodness of life -
even in the midst of apparent adversity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Goodness is the only investment that never fails.
- Henry David Thoreau
Innocence isn't ever lost completely;
we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.
- Jewel
You may call God love, you may call God goodness.
But the best name for God is compassion.
- Meister Eckhart
Wisdom has its root in goodness,
not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The roots of all goodness lie
in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
There is no odor so bad as that
which arises from goodness tainted.
- Henry David Thoreau
True religion is real living;
living with all one's soul,
with all one's goodness and righteousness.
- Albert Einstein
Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love.
Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Values Sayings
He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You will not be punished for your anger,
you will be punished by your anger.
- The Buddha
Joy is a choice - but it isn't an easy choice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
If we have no peace,
it is because we have forgotten
that we belong to each other.
- Mother Teresa
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
As we work to create light for others,
we naturally light our own way.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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