#de

Vanity is a factor, but it is more a question of control. It is easier to trick others into percieving you as beautiful if you can convince yourself you ARE beautiful. But mirrors have an uncanny way of telling the truth. ↗

— Dr.Erland

#beauty

She kissed back, once again content to let me take her for a ride wherever I was going. "What a beautiful mess we're in," I murmured. ↗

— Shelly Crane

#marley #beauty

She's gonna know the rooster's in the hen house when she doesn't find me there, so we'd better hurry. ↗

— Georgia Cates

#beauty-series #georgia-cates #jack-henry #jack-mclachlan #laurelyn-prescott

But I'm terrified of giving up my career only to have the whole thing backfire in my face. What if I move down there and it doesn't work out?" "What if you don't and you never know what might have been? Can you live with that? ↗

— Georgia Cates

#addison-donavon #beauty-from-surrender #georgia-cates #laurelyn-prescott #paige-beckett

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. ↗

— John Maeda

#simplicity #business

..."Emeninemletters," Caucasian girls from the wrong side of the tracks with big mouths and big attitudes, who weren't taking shit from anyone(except the men in their lives). They had thinly plucked eyebrows, corn-rowed hair, hip-hop vocabularies, and baby daddies, and they thought Paris Hilton was the ne plus ultra of feminine beauty." -Piper Kerman, page 137 ↗

— Piper Kerman

#piper-kerman #attitude

Have all beautiful things sad destinies? ↗

— Jean Rhys

#beauty #destiny #question #sad #beauty

Tis torture, and not mercy. Heaven is here Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#death #heaven #love #pain #romeo-and-juliet

You look beautiful and tragic, just the way a heroine should on the eve of battle. Like Joan of Arc in her silver armor. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#gates-of-paradise #melissa-de-la-cruz #oliver-hazard-perry #tragic #warrior

[A Letter to the Culture that Raised Me] I'm not here to be on display. And my body is not for public consumption. I will not be reduced to an object, or a pair of legs to sell shoes. I'm a soul, a mind, a servant of God. My worth is defined by the beauty of my soul, my heart, my moral character. So I won't worship your beauty standards, and I don't submit to your fashion sense. My submission is to something higher. ↗

— Yasmin Mogahed

#society #spirituality #women #beauty