Beauty

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There is no exquisite beauty ... without some strangeness in the proportion. 

Edgar Allan Poe

Beauty

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I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

Oscar Wilde

Our own beauty

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To really accept the beauty of the world, we must have a place in ourselves that understands our own beauty, that accepts the experience of beauty and ecstasy from within.

Christina Baldwin, One to One

Beauty

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Today like every other day we wake up empty
and frightened. Don’t open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down a musical instrument.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.

Rumi, The Essential Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne