"Cheerfulness and contentment are great beautifiers and are famous preservers of youthful looks." Charles Dickens

"If people sat outside and
 looked at the stars each night,
 I'll bet they'd live a lot differently."
 Bill Watterson

"The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other." Arthur Rubenstein

"The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty."
 Jon Krakauer

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius
 and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous 
than absolutely boring."
 Marilyn Monroe

"I've never seen a smiling face that was not beautiful." Unknown

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out." Ray Bradbury

"Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true." William Inge

"A beautiful thing is never perfect." Egyptian proverb

"In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature." Edna O'Brien

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul." John Muir

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature--the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter." Rachel Carson

"May your life be like a wildflower growing freely in the beauty and joy of each day."  Indian Proverb

"Those who dwell among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life." Rachel Carson

"One of the greatest things in the world is to train ourselves to see beauty in the commonplace." Charles Hawthorne

"Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the cross hairs of a gun sight. And after I've finished 'shooting,'my unharmed victims are still around for others to enjoy. I have developed a deep respect for animals." Jimmy Stewart

"Where there is rhythm, there is grace.Where there is grace, there is efficiency." Christopher Bergland

"Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.  It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."
 Oscar Wilde

"Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit." Rudolf Arnheim, psychologist and author (1904-2007)

"Of all the gifts you received at birth, your ability to behold the beauty of the world is the most precious. " Veronique Vienne

"The balance of nature is reached when heating the house costs as much as going south for the winter." James H. McGavran

"Do you think that things of creative beauty and stimulation are not valuable in themselves as civilizing elements?" Robert Genn

“Nothing that is beautiful is easy, but everything is possible.” Mercedes de Acosta

“There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.” G.K. Chesterton, essayist and novelist (1874-1936)

“The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.” Henry Miller

“The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.” Albert Einstein

“He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” Albert Einstein

“Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.” Charles Reade

“Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.” Confucius