Quotes About Refinement

Aging is a carefully designed exercise that constantly urges us with increasing insistence to attend to that part of our selves that is most important, the essential part of our selves that will endure and continue its endless journey toward fulfilling its capacity to become ever more refined, ever more complete and joyful.

Meditation is the process by which we go about deepening our attention and awareness, refining them, and putting them to greater practical use in our lives.

Mindfulness has to do above all with attention and awareness, which are universal human qualities. But in our society, we tend to take these capacities for granted and don't think to develop them systematically in the service of self-understanding and wisdom. Meditation is the process by which we go about deepening our attention and awareness, refining them, and putting them to greater practical use in our lives.

I had TB as a child. So I was put to doing things like drawing and reading. And I was raised in a family where manners were important. Maybe that's why I seem so refined.

Keep it simple, don't over do your self. Because simple is classy, and overdoing it looks trashy.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Like a book, like a house, the quality of a salon, Mme de Guermantes quite rightly thought, depended essentially on what you excluded.

opted in favour of simplicity, the arts, and magnanimity

Leisure with dignity.

Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or corrected; Insisting that a thing is impossible because we cannot accomplish it; Refusing to set aside trivial preferences; Neglecting development and refinement of the mind; Attempting to compel others to believe and live as we do.

The education of the senses has, as its aim, the refinement of the differential perception of stimuli by means of repeated exercises.

If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Simple is elegant and extremely efficient.

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

Civilization begins with distillation

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

Absorb what is useful, Discard what is not, Add what is uniquely your own.

A girl shuld be two things classy and fabulous.

Finishing food is about the tiny touches. In the last seconds you can change everything.

And what defines true elegance?' she asked wryly as they crossed the wide, empty, cobbled streets. 'Dressing with care.' 'Is that all?' 'Far from it. But that is the essence.

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal, and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.