The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
To sing is to love and affirm, to fly and to soar, to coast into the hearts of the people who listen to tell them that life is to live, that love is there, that nothing is a promise, but that beauty exists, and must be hunted for and found.
No work of art is more important than the Christian's life, and every Christian is called to be an artist in this sense... The Christian's life is to be a thing of truth and also a thing of beauty in the midst of a lost and despairing world.
We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?
Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?
The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.
I try to be nice, I try to respect other people, but over the years I've learned that all this stuff we do is a bunch of crap. That doesn't mean it doesn't have its place. We are living in a material world, so why not live with something beautiful?
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art.
I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.
There is a way of living that has a certain grace and beauty. It is not a constant race for what is next, rather, an appreciation of that which has come before. There is a depth and quality of experience that is lived and felt, a recognition of what is truly meaningful. These are the feelings I would like my work to inspire. This is the quality of life that I believe in.
The real beauty in life is that beauty can sometimes occur.
But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere.
I take pride in the fact that people go home having felt that for 90 minutes today, life is beautiful - and that's it, basically. That's why professional football exists.
Living in a chronic state of unawareness can cause us to miss much of what is most beautiful and meaningful in our lives.
Healthier, perhaps, to find beauty in life and feel it expand inside of us.
Beautiful as a dandelion-blossom golden in the green grass, this life can be.
Of all these the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art. ~Waddington
The beautiful in life... Some talk of it in poetry, Some grow it from the soil, Some build it in a steeple, Some show it through their toil. Some breathe it into music, Some mold it into art, Some shape it into bread loaves... Some hold it in their hearts.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Culture is the passion for sweetness and light, and (what is more) the passion for making them prevail.
In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves.
Life is full of beauty. Notice it.
I'd like to add some beauty to life," said Anne dreamily. "I don't exactly want to make people KNOW more... though I know that IS the noblest ambition... but I'd love to make them have a pleasanter time because of me... to have some little joy or happy thought that would never have existed if I hadn't been born.
You need the art in order to love the life.
Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.
