“Celebrate the varied splendour in this world, and remind yourself that it can also be found in you.” — Dr Salma Farook Copy Share Image
Luxury starts where functionality ends and where the true value is personal and so has no price or reason. — Marcel Wanders Copy Share Image
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
A landscape painting is essentially emotional in origin. It exists as a record of an effect in nature whose splendour has moved… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
For my part, the thing I would wish to obtain from money would be leisure with security. But what the typical modern… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark--now glittering--now reflecting gloom-- Now lending splendour,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
That I grow sour, who only lack delight; That I descend to sneer, who only grieve: That from my depth I should… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Pleased be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
It cannot reasonably be doubted, but a little miss, dressed in a new gown for a dancing-school ball, receives as complete enjoyment… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can blast the flower, Even when in most unwary hour It blooms in Fancy's bower. Age… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The splendour falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
Hence the strong attraction which magic and science alike have exercised on the human mind; hence the powerful stimulus that both have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost centre in us… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
It has been said by a distinguished philosopher that England is "usually the last to enter into the general movement of the… — Isaac Todhunter Copy Share Image
I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Did I ever tell you,’ said Lymond pausing on the afterthought, on his way to the flap, ‘that that aunt of mine… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Why, sir," said he, looking about him, "what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich.… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from… — William McFee Copy Share Image
The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done.… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his… — Ann Radcliffe Copy Share Image
'Splendour' broke through to new territory for me. It exposed my commitment to writing for women: my desire to recognise that they… — Abi Morgan Copy Share Image
In adultery, there is usually tenderness and self-sacrifice; in murder, courage; in profanation and blasphemy, a certain satanic splendour. Judas elected those… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I don't see myself as some kind of lone figure standing out there and doing my work in solitary splendour, but as… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Does the light of the lamp shine without losing its splendour until it is extinguished; and shall the truth which is in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Miss Mills replied, on general principles, that the Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun, Radiance of moon, Splendour of fire. Speed of lightning, Swiftness of… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
I arise today Through the strength of heaven: Light of sun Brilliance of moon Splendor of fire Speed of lightning Swiftness of… — Saint Patrick Copy Share Image
Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and… — David Berg Copy Share Image
Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, since it is an attribute of God… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
The outer world, with all its phenomena, is filled with divine splendour, but we must have experienced the divine within ourselves, before… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
One of the most important-and most neglected-elements in the beginning of the interior life is the ability to respond to reality, to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Ilúvatar chose a place for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Amidst one's daily clutter, one doesn't usually reflect on the splendour of being free because - naturally - one has to get… — Upamanyu Chatterjee Copy Share Image
