Kindness, Western Proverb

Kindness is worth more than beauty.

- Western Proverb

Beauty, George Santayana

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

- George Santayana (1863-1952)

Love, Erich Fromm

Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you."

- Erich Fromm (1900-1980), "The Art of Loving (1956)"

Beauty, Anne Frank

I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

― Anne Frank (1929-1945), The Diary of a Young Girl

Beauty, Franz Kafka

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

― Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

Beauty, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.

― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926-2004)

Arts, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

Beauty, Richelle Mead

Richelle Mead

Do you think I'm pretty?
I think you're beautiful.
Beautiful?
You are so beautiful, it hurts sometimes.

― Richelle Mead (1976- ), Vampire Academy

Vampire Academy

Acting, Phoebe Cates

If the film, play or any project I`m involved in requires some sort of violence or nudity to advance the plot, scene or character in any way, then I would be considered unprofessional not to oblige. Of course, I want to make sure -- and I think I always have -- that the scenes are shot in good taste. I try to have some control; now that I know what I`m capable of including in a contract, I can continue that control. Nudity is not something I necessarily want to avoid and yet it`s not the most fun thing in the world to do. It`s part of the job as far as I`m concerned because you bare yourself emotionally and that`s just as terrifying as baring yourself physically. It`s all part of acting.

- Phoebe Cates (1963- )

Arts, André Malraux

History may clarify our understanding of the supreme work of art, but can never account for it completely; for the Time of art is not the same as the Time of history.

- André Malraux (1901-1976)

Beauty, Havelock Ellis

The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

- Havelock Ellis (1859-1939)

Flaming June, by Frederic Lord Leighton (1830-1896)

Flaming June, by Frederic Lord Leighton (1830-1896)

Artist	Frederic Leighton (1830–1896)
Title	English: Flaming June. Español: Junio flameante. Français : June flamboyante. Italiano: Avvampante giugno. 日本語: フレイミング・ジューン. Português: Sol ardente de junho Slovenčina: Žeravý jún.
Date	~1895
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	120.6 × 120.6 cm (47 3/8 × 47 3/8 in)
Current location	Museum of Art of Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico
Source/Photographer	Artrenewal.org : notice : image
Licensing	This work is in the public domain in the United States, and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or less.

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Celebrities, Phoebe Cates

In this business, if a girl wants a career, she has to be willing to strip. If you`ve got a good bod, then why not show it?

- Phoebe Cates (1963- )

Beauty, Pearl S Buck

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

- Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

Love, Richard Rodgers

Do I love you because you're beautiful, or are you beautiful because I love you?

― Richard Rodgers (1902-1979), Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella

Beauty, Alan Hollinghurst

The worse they are the more they see beauty in each other.

― Alan Hollinghurst (1954- ), The Line of Beauty

Beauty, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944), The Little Prince

Beauty, Oscar Wilde

The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her, if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.

― Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), The Importance of Being Earnest

Beauty, Cynthia Hand

There's nothing more inspiring than the complexity and beauty of the human heart.

― Cynthia Hand, Hallowed

Beauty, Albert Camus

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

― Albert Camus (1913-1960)

Beauty, Mahatma Gandhi

True beauty consists in purity of heart.

- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

Summer, Henry James

Summer afternoon—summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

― Henry James (1843-1916)

Beauty, Western Proverb

Beauty without virtue is a flower without perfume.

- Western Proverb

A beauty

A beauty

Description	English: A beauty oil on canvas 41.2 x 20.6 cm signed b.r.: Falero 1885
Date	1885
Source	The Athenaeum Wikimedia Commons
Author	Luis Ricardo Falero (1851–1896)
Camera location	.
Permission	Public Domain
Licensing	This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason: This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to Australia, the European Union and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 70 years.

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A mosaic LAW (1896) by Frederick Dielman (1847-1935)

Description	English: Frederick Dielman (1847-1935) designed this mosaic representing Law for the United States Library of Congress, and it was subsequently manufactured in Venice, Italy. A young woman on a marble throne holds a sword in one hand to chastise the guilty and a palm branch in the other hand to reward the meritorious. A glory surrounds her head, and on her breast is the aegis of Minerva, signifying she is clad in the armor of righteousness and wisdom. Other portions of this large mosaic are omitted from this image. This mosaic indicates not only the judicial but the legislative side of law; typical symbols of justice are less conspicuous or omitted, and the woman has a freer air of command.
Date	1896
Source	http://www.loc.gov/jefftour/cm/cm-mos-n.html
Author	Frederick Dielman

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Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy, François Lemoyne

Author: François Lemoyne (1688–1737)
Description
English: Time Saving Truth from Falsehood and Envy
Date: 1737
Notes: completed on the day before the artist’s suicide
Source/Photographer: Wallace Collection, London; HumanitiesWeb.org

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Diana at her bath (Alexandre Jacques Chantron)

Diana at her bath (Alexandre Jacques Chantron)

Artist	Alexandre Jacques Chantron (1842–1918)
Title	English: Diana at her Bath
Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	75 × 44.75 in (190.5 × 113.7 cm)
Inscriptions	Signature bottom right: Chantron
Source/Photographer	[1]
Licensing	The author died in 1918, so this work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 90 years or less.

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Spring, Frances Hodgson Burnett

Frances
Hodgson
Burnett

"Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like...?"
"It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine..."

― Frances Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924), The Secret Garden (1911)

"봄이 오고 있을까요?" 그는 말했다. "어떤 모습일까요?"
"그건 비가 오고 있는데 햇빛이 비치는 거고, 태양이 빛나는데 비가 오고 있는 것 같죠."

- 프랜시스 호지슨 버넷 (Frances Hodgson Burnett) 소설가, 비밀의 화원

Girls In A Green Rowing Boat

Girls In A Green Rowing Boat

Author	Harald Slott-Møller (1864–1937)
Title	.
Description	English: Girls In A Green Rowing Boat On A Summer Day
Date	c. 1910
Medium	.
Current location	.
Source/Photographer	Pimbrils
Licensing	This image (or other media file) is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

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