#beauty

Remember that self-doubt is as self-centered as self-inflation. Your obligation is to reach as deeply as you can and offer your unique and authentic gifts as bravely and beautifully as you're able. ↗

— Bill Plotkin

#healing #spirituality #beauty

Sexuality is not meant to be this way - an honest, consensual expression in which a girl might take an active role when she feels good and ready and not one minute before. No. Sexual desire is meant to sell soap. And cars. And beer. And religion. ↗

— Libba Bray

#women #beauty

There is desire in the perfect, beauty in the imperfect. Thus I lust over the flawless, and fall amorously forceless to the flawed. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#imperfect #kassam #love #perfection #philosophy

You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough. ↗

— Jane Austen

#love #men #women #beauty

Death, is a beautiful conclusion to these short stories, that which we have so interestingly entitled, lives. ↗

— Kiar

#conclusion #death #lives #short-stories #beauty

There's a girl, Dad." He smiled a bit. "A girl." "She kinda hates me, and I kinda..." "Love her?" "I don't know. I don't think so. I mean...how do you know?" His smile grew wider. "When you're talking about her with your old dad because you don't know what else to do. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#travis-maddox #beauty

He cocked his head to the side. "Did he die well?" "He died screaming." Charlotte's bluntness startled Tessa. "What a beautiful thing to hear. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#relished #unexpected-changes #beauty

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people. ↗

— Kelly Osbourne

#because #busy #comparing #other #our

She has built her whole life on the foundation of beauty: each chiseled plane, each sloping dimple, each soft curve as crucial as keystones in the cathedral of her body. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#ageing #attractiveness #beauty #women #age

What kind of husband would I be if I bet against my own marriage?' I smiled. 'The stupid kind. Didn't you listen to your dad when he told you not to bet against me? ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#certainty #humor #husband #husband-and-wife #love