Beautification Quotes:

Education is beautification of the inner world and the outer world.

- Amit Ray

source: Amit Ray (2012). “Nonviolence: The Transforming Power”, p.48, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

topic: World, Beautification, Inner World

Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.

- Thomas Menino

topic: Boston, Tonight, Host, Beautification

Though the word beautification makes the concept sound merely cosmetic, it involves much more: clean water, clean air, clean roadsides, safe waste disposal and preservation of valued old landmarks as well as great parks and wilderness areas. To me … beautification means our total concern for the physical and human quality we pass on to our children and the future.

- Lady Bird Johnson

source: "Lady Bird Johnson’s Letters Affirm Passion for Nature" by Dorian de Wind, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13, 2014.

topic: Children, Mean, Air, Landmarks, Waste Disposal

The beautification of the world is not a work of nature, but a work of art, then it involves an artist.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Art, Literature, World, Beautification

I am going to make everything around me beautiful - that will be my life.

- Elsie de Wolfe

topic: Beautiful, Host, Interior Design, Beautification, Interiors

There are some, I know, who see beautification as a frill, as an extra, or as something that is luxurious enough to postpone. Well, they make me impatient because I am convinced that beauty and order in our environment are not frills. I am convinced that they are urgent necessities because they will determine whether our grandchildren can live in a decent land or whether they will be surrounded by glittering junkheaps.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

source: Johnson, Lyndon B. (1970). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1968-1969”, p.459, Best Books on

topic: Future, Grandchildren, Order, Frills, Beautification

Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments.

- Amit Ray

source: "Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath". Book by Amit Ray, 2015.

topic: Mindfulness, Life Is, Moments, Beautification

Just trusting the soul cannot lead you to higher consciousness. You have to pay attention for the beautification of your heart.

- Amit Ray

topic: Heart, Soul, Attention, Beautification, Higher Consciousness

Ive always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art.

- James Polshek

topic: Art, Healing, Architecture, Beautification

Good food and a warm kitchen are what makes a house a home. I always tried to make my home like my mother's, because Mom was magnificent at stretching a buck when it came to decorating and food. Like a true Italian, she valued beautification in every area of her life, and I try to do the same.

- Rachael Ray

topic: Mom, Mother, Home, Beautification

The heart becomes sick, as the body becomes sick, and its remedy is al-Tawbah (repentance) and protection [from transgression]. It becomes rusty as a mirror becomes rusty, and its clarity is obtained by remembrance. It becomes naked as the body becomes naked, and its beautification is al-Taqwa. It becomes hungry and thirsty as the body becomes hungry, and its food and drink are knowledge, love, dependence, repentance and servitude.

- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

topic: Wisdom, Islamic, Heart, Taqwa, Food And Drink

The people in business must understand what they can achieve with designers. Designers have to understand that they really must deliver to business not just beautification, or another form of it, but substantial change.

- Hartmut Esslinger

topic: People, Designer, Achieve, Beautification

We don't wear sequins because we think we're great. We wear them because we think sequins are great.

- Gram Parsons

topic: Thinking, Decoration, Embellishment, Beautification, Sequins

Temptations come on some people for the cleansing of previous sins, on other for the beautification of their current perfection, and on yet others, as preparation for things to come, except temptations, which are for the increase of a man's faith and virtue, as it was with Job.

- Maximus the Confessor

topic: Inspirational, Christian, Religious, Beautification

As for the decorum at the time of a campaign, one must be mindful that he is a samurai. A person who loves beautification where it is unnecessary is fit for punishment.

- Kato Kiyomasa

topic: War, Love Is, Punishment, Decorum, Beautification