Thích Nhất Hạnh on beauty

To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is.

When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness.

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty. That is all ye know on Earth, and all ye need to know.

John Keats1795–1821Ode on a Grecian Urn, Stanza 5. The final lines of this poem have been rendered in various ways in different editions, some placing the entire last two lines within quotation marks, others only the statement “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,” …In context

• Truth & Lies

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller1880–1968Letter to Rev. Phillips Brooks (8 June 1891)

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman⁠—they remain beautiful and the rebuke recoils.

Winston Churchill1874–1965

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