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"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."	Albert Einstein
"A human being is part of a whole, called by us the 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest--a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."	Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. So to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that which is impenetretrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."	Albert Einstein
"It seems to me we can never give up longing And wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, And we must hunger after them."	George Eliot
"Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life, it is life itself."	Henry Havelock Ellis
"One man's justice is another's injustice; one man's beauty another's ugliness; one man's wisdom another's folly."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Truth is beautiful, without a doubt. But so are lies."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intellingent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one's self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The definition of success--To laugh much; to win respect of intelligent persons and the affections of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give one's self; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition.; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm, and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived--this is to have succeeded."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."	Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me."	John Erskine
"Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?"	Dame Margot Fonteyn
"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."	Anne Frank
"If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."	Benjamin Franklin
"When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."	Richard Buckminster Fuller
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