Saint Augustine on beauty
Saint Augustine104 quotes“Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”
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The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.
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Saint AugustineSaint Augustine In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine To sing is to pray twice.
Saint AugustineSaint Augustine He that is jealous is not in love.
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Don’t compare her to sunshine and roses when she’s clearly orchids and moonlight.
Melody LeeMelody Lee Oh moonlight, continue to shine on me. As you light up the sky, maybe some peace will come to me.
ShamaShama Stop counting the reasons why they should be loved and start counting the many reasons why you are the one who is worth loving.
Ayaka HaseAyaka Hase Sure, there are oceans and seas and magnificent things – but none of them are you.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix I wish you the wildest of dreams.
Kate WestKate West The way you look at me, The way you make me feel whole, The way you make me feel safe, thats poetry to me.
Barbara GianquittoBarbara Gianquitto You cannot leave and have me too I cannot exist in two places at once-when you ask if we can still be friends.
Rupi KaurRupi Kaur Live to be happy not to impress.
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I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
Ayn RandAyn Rand If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere.
Vincent Van GoghVincent Van Gogh Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne FrankAnne Frank I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
Anne FrankAnne Frank All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Even in our deepest struggles, love, faith and beauty find a way.
Brene BrownBrene Brown Ugliness is better than beauty. It lasts longer and in the end, gravity will get us all.
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