The World Beautiful Quotes

“To be rich in friends is to be poor in nothing.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“It is achievement on the spiritual side of things; it is the extension of our life here into the spiritual world, that is, alone, of value.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“Contempt is not the product of spiritual affluence, but of spiritual poverty.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“The fine art of living, indeed, is to draw from each person his best.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“The spirit that says, 'Let us eat, drink, and be merry, for to-morrow we die,' is not the spirit that is laying hold on any of the things that make life worth living.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“In one way or another the Lord bids us all to fly, and we have need to trust Him for the wings, and live in that intimate and close relation to Him that alone can receive divine guidance.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“Live in the sweet, sunny atmosphere of serenity and light and exaltation, - in that love and loveliness that creates the World Beautiful.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“To determine to accomplish a certain thing is to have it half done at once. Energy is creative. Believe, and go forward.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“The person who has something to say will always find a hearing.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“If one would accomplish anything in the world worth doing, he must have sufficient confidence in himself to take risks, to set out on journeys of which he cannot see the end or know by what means he shall be guided; in other words, he must be capable of belief, of trust in the invisible.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“There is wisdom in accepting people as we do pictures, and placing them in the right light.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“Learn to accept people for what they are, rather than find fault because they are not something else.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“The one supreme luxury of life is sympathetic companionship.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“Only the barbarian is rude to persons he does not like.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“It takes far less insight to discover defects than it does to discern noble and lovely qualities.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“If one waits to find perfection in his friend, he will probably wait long and live and die unfriended at last.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“The genuine friendships of life are largely discovered, not acquired. We find them rather than make them.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“It is a beautiful thing to live.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“The most cultivated man can often better find out what he thinks by conversation with even the uncultured mind that by solitude. Conversation is experimental; it is also creative, - it stimulates the mind to new energies and to new combinations of ideas.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful

“Life is the result of a process of selection; and he only is the true artist who chooses the finer elements and out of them creates his World Beautiful.”
― Lilian Whiting, The World Beautiful