Category: Beauty
“The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable: they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.” -Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
“One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn’t have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see. Your body is your temple. It’s your home, and you must decorate it.” -Gabourey Sidibe, Being Precious
“The most beautiful people are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” -Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
“If you have good thoughts, they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.” -Roald Dahl
“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guiltly and your purpose when you are confused.” -Alan Cohen
“If you look after goodness and truth, beauty will take care of itself.” -Eric Gill, Letters of Eric Gill
“Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.” -Charles Kingsley, letter
“The most beautiful makeup for a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.” -Yves St. Laurent
“Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.” -Elise de Wolfe
“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable, beautiful, and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.” -Mary Oliver
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