Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

How goodness heightens beauty!

Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.

Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

I love small things. I love them.

The ordinary can be absolutely miraculous.

He who cannot see the beautiful side is a bad painter, a bad friend, a bad lover; he cannot lift his mind and his heart so high as goodness.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'

Every season is likeable, and wet days and fine, red wine and white, company and solitude. Even sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life, can be full of dreams; and the most common actions──a walk, a talk, solitude in one’s own orchard──can be enhanced and lit up by the association of the mind. Beauty is everywhere, and beauty is only two finger’s-breadth from goodness.

We needs must love the highest when we see it.

C. albus...I think the very loveliest of all the lily family - a spotless soul, plant saint, that every one must love and so be made better. It puts the wildest mountaineer on his good behavior. With this plant the whole world would seem rich though non other existed.

Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others.

I wish to explore the beauty of everyday environments; in troubled times it is especially important to be aware of beauty and wonder.

I know numbers are beautiful. If they aren't beautiful, nothing is.

Everything is beautiful in its own way.

It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.

I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.

A truly beautiful person is one who is good at discovering beauty.

Some women need no jewels to make them sparkle. You are one of them. -Royce Westmoreland

..in that moment i realize how much i love the little everyday routines of my life..the details that are my life's special pattern, like how in handwoven rugs what really makes them unique are the tiny flaws in the stitching, little gaps and jumps and stutters that can never be reproduced. so many things become beautiful when you really look.

Your art is to be the praise of something that you love. It may only be the praise of a shell or a stone.

A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a little bit more intention, you see it.

The natural is so awesome that we need not go beyond it.

Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.