Beautiful In Unexpected Places Quotes & Sayings

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem. — Denis Waitley

if our style of looking becomes beautiful, then beauty will become visible and shine forth for us. We will be surprised to discover beauty in unexpected places where the ungraceful eye would never linger. The graced eye can glimpse beauty anywhere, for beauty does not reserve itself for special elite moments or instances; it does not wait for perfection but is present already secretly in everything. When we beautify our gaze, the grace of hidden beauty becomes our joy and our sanctuary. — John O'Donohue

It's been over 15 years since I toured ... over 12 years since I did any recording under my own name. I never really intended to take that long of a hiatus. — Thomas Dolby

She of all people knows what compilation tapes represent. — Nick Hornby

You could tell exactly where the popular kids were sitting, the jocks, the drama kids, the band kids, the goths, the kickers, and the other kids who just floated in the middle of it all were, of course, the outsiders. — Rhiannon Frater

A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan, a deeply devout Muslim who had graduated with honors in medicine, a man who had fed a stranger to wild dogs in Damascus, a zealot who had dosed three foreigners with smallpox and watched them die in agony, gave thanks to Allah for the blessings that had been bestowed upon him. — Terry Hayes

When you buy bananas all you want is the fruit not the skin, but you have to pay for the skin also. It is a waste. And you the customer should not have to pay for the waste. — Shigeo Shingo

I think the universe is so big you can't really deal with everybody. — Jon M. Chu

My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day. — Christopher Meloni

Life seems to be a system that eats itself to death, and in which victory equals defeat. — Alan W. Watts

The enemy of science is not religion ... The true enemy is the substitution of thought, reflection, and curiosity with dogma. — Frans De Waal

Gideon had killed Nathan to protect me. Clancy had made sure Gideon would never pay for it. — Sylvia Day

As I said, I started with poetry, and I also wrote criticism and dialogue. But I realized that I was most successful at dialogue. Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language, but in their behavior as well. — Eugene Ionesco

I've finally reached a stage in my career where I can do what I want. — Janet Evanovich

Ah little recks the laborer,
How near his work is holding him to God,
The loving Laborer through space and time — Walt Whitman

I believe that we need good tale-tellers now, as much as we did when the oral tradition was the only way that they were passed on; that the active transmission of stories plays a vital role in the development of the brain. The quality of the stories that surround us as we grow up is vitally important to our well-being, in the same way as the quality of food and our environment. The most beautiful aspect of this shared story-telling - and we have great examples of this in Tales from the Perilous Realm - is that the collaboration and engagement between teller and audience means that they are embarking on a journey together, which can lead to the most unexpected and wondrous of places. — Alan Lee