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Beautiful Quotes

    “It’s easy to confuse the image we present to the world for who we actually are, especially when media messaging deliberately blurs that distinction. You might look beautiful today, but if that was the result of vain obsession in the mirror this morning, the Stoics would ask, are you actually beautiful? A body build from hard work is admirable. A body build to impress gym rats is not.”

    Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic (Page 87) (Read Matt’s Blog On This Quote)

      “I still wear makeup when I feel like it, though less of it, and I still enjoy experimenting with a new shade of lipstick or eye shadow. The point is that I, and everyone else, have a choice. And we should be able to freely make that choice, from one moment to the next, without society’s ‘standard of beauty’ hovering over us. I am my own standard-bearer. So are you.”

      Alicia Keys, More Myself (Page 211)

        “i want to apologize to all the women

        i have called pretty

        before i’ve called them intelligent or brave

        i am sorry i made it sound as though

        something as simple as what you’re born with

        is the most you have to be proud of when your

        spirit has crushed mountains

        from now on i will say things like

        you are resilient or you are extraordinary

        not because i don’t think you’re pretty

        but because you are so much more than that”

        Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (Page 179)

          “he placed his hands

          on my mind

          before reaching

          for my waist

          my hips

          or my lips

          he didn’t call me

          beautiful first

          he called me

          exquisite”

          Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey (Page 54)