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Ramblings on a Word

Ramblings on a Word – Beauty

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Image by Shelly Paul

Beauty – aesthetically pleasing

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever”, goes the well-known phrase from the poem, Endymion, by John Keats. Dwelling on this phrase made me wonder about that one unique thing of such incredible beauty, that it would bring unfailing joy to its beholder.

Could it be a favorite work of art that could turn into a visual feast every time we set our eyes on it? Or a piece of music that strums our soul, each and every time we listen to it? Continue reading “Ramblings on a Word – Beauty” →

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Some Quotes

G.K.Chesterton’s quote on self-restraint

“If you wish to perceive that limitless felicity, limit yourself if only for a moment.”
– From G.K.Chesterton’s essay, ‘The Advantages of having one leg’

Some Quotes

Hesse on enrichment of soul

“Almost all the prose works I have written are biographies of the soul”, Hermann Hesse has written, “monologues, in which a single individual is observed in relation to the world and to his own ego.”
-From the dust-jacket of “Peter Camenzind/Hermann Hesse”