#appearance

From the outside looking in, everything looked completely ordinary. The problem was being on the inside, looking out. ↗

Love begets wisdom, thus it is, as often misconceived, more than vain layers of tenderness; it is inherently rational and comprehensive of the problem within the problem: for instance, envy is one of the most excused sins in the media of political correctness. Those you find most attractive, or seem to have it all, are often some of the most insecure at heart, and that is because people assume that they do not need anything but defamation. ↗

— Criss Jami

#attractiveness #compassion #comprehensive #defamation #discernment

The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

#behavior #being-exceptional #humor #humor

I am not what I appear – I am much shallower than that. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #shallowness #funny

But beauty was not everything. Beauty had this penalty - it came too readily, came too completely. It stilled life - froze it. One forgot the little agitations; the flush, the pallor, some queer distortion, some light or shadow, which made the face unrecognisable for a moment and yet added quality one saw for ever after. It was simpler to smooth that all out under the cover of beauty. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#beauty #beauty

I'm told I have the body of a god." "A Greek god, or one of those gods with the horse heads or elephant's legs coming out of their chests?" Alan asked. "Next time someone tells you that, ask them to specify. ↗

— Sarah Rees Brennan

#humor #teasing #humor

Hear what I say, and not how I look." ~R. Alan Woods [2012] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#r-alan-woods #r-alan-woods

There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, 'Do trousers matter?'" "The mood will pass, sir. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#bad-mood #clothes #dejection #humor #humor

No chemical process shows a more wonderful activity than the transforming influence of the thoughts we imagine to be going on in another. ↗

— George Eliot

#imagination

Say what you want, princess. You are a recipe for premature ejaculation, if I’ve ever seen one. ↗