#purity

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance. ↗

— Arthur Helps

#better #calmness #cosmetics #countenance #graces

I don't think geometric art is... I don't like to call it that. I don't think it's any more pure than pop art or anything else. It doesn't have anything to do with purity. ↗

— Donald Judd

#anything #art #call #else #geometric

Rare is the union of beauty and purity. ↗

— Juvenal

#purity #rare #union

India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer. ↗

— Anil Kapoor

#india #innocence #knows #much #offer

The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember those ethics of passivity!). She's never a woman of color. SHe's never a low-income girl or a fat girl. She's never disabled. "Virgin" is a designation for those who meet a certain standard of what women, especially young women, are supposed to look like. As for how these young women are supposed to act? A blank slate is best. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#purity-myth #virgin #virginity #design

Nobody taught me to be like this. I was born this way. Since I opened my eyes to the world, I have never slept with a man. Never. Just imagine what purity. I have nothing to be ashamed of. [2000] ↗

— Chavela Vargas

#humor #lesbian #purity #rareza #shame

Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit. ↗

— Eric Liddell

#instinct #purity #life

Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that the mind is overwhelmed and drowned in body. For the principal attribute of the Gods, without or within us, is mind. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#chastity #mind #purity #religion #religion

No,' said Gould, with an unusual and convincing gravity; 'I do not believe that being perfectly good in all respects would make a man merry.' 'Well,' said Michael quietly, 'will you tell me one thing? Which of us has ever tried it? ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#happiness #purity #righteous #respect

The purification of the mind is very necessary. (72) ↗

— Swami Satchidananda

#purification #purity #yoga