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" I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs can be kings, a thicket of brambles can hide a castle where a royal court has lain asleep for a hundred years, a boy can outwit a giant, and a girl can break a curse with nothing but her courage and steadfastness. "

Kate Forsyth

Girl

Kings

" Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that. "

" The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. "

Katherine Anne Porter

Care

Well-Being

Beauty

" I think there's so much honor and integrity and beauty in being able to be who you are. "

" We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body. "

" I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity. "

" The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in complexity are the fringes of beauty, and in variety are generosity and exuberance. "

" Cinderella is not only an iconic character when it comes to beauty, grace and fairytale love, but also shoes. "

" Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves. "

" A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. "

" There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit is in them, and they cannot be silent if they would, and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration. "

" I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. "

" If you do something that you're proud of, that someone else understands, that is a thing of beauty that wasn't there before - you can't beat that. "

" Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. "

" I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component. "

" Beauty, more than bitterness, makes the heart break. "

Sara Teasdale

Heart

Break

" 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' and 'Tam Lin.' I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: 'What if 'Beauty' was a huntress?' "

" When I learned to sign and speak at the same time, the whole world opened up to me. That's the beauty of encouraging kids who are deaf to use whatever it takes to communicate. "

Marlee Matlin

Deaf

Time

" Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo's sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey's angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington. "

" The privilege I've had as a curator is not just the discovery of new works... but what I've discovered about myself and what I can offer in the space of an exhibition - to talk about beauty, to talk about power, to talk about ourselves, and to talk and speak to each other. "

" Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness. "

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Own

Sadness

Understand

" I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' "

William Butler Yeats

Beautiful

Beauty

" In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare! "

" I just want to continue to break barriers and to show the industry and the world that beauty is diverse, and you don't have to be a certain stereotype to be beautiful. "

" While traveling around the world, I've had the opportunity to work with every living beauty icon. I've learned to appreciate idiosyncrasy. The fact is, there is really no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty. "

" Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down. "

" Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived. "

" The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power. "

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Alone

Beauty

Bible

" If we do not permit the earth to produce beauty and joy, it will in the end not produce food, either. "

" When it comes to beauty, I feel that hanging with people you love, laughing, and doing silly things gets your spirits up. We are always prettier when we are happier. "