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" People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. "

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Nature

" You can always enhance your natural beauty; you learn what works for your face because crazy make-up doesn't really suit anyone. "

" Beauty is not something you can count on. Usually, when people say you are beautiful, it is when there is a harmony between the inside and the outside. "

" It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had. "

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" Beauty is only skin deep, and the world is full of thin skinned people. "

" A women's greatest asset is her beauty. "

" It's nice to just embrace the natural beauty within you. "

" Things are beautiful if you love them. "

" Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked. "

" Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. "

" If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes. "

" I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty. "

" For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled. "

" Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance. "

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Decision

Beauty

Courage

" You know, all these sentiments about beauty coming from within, they've always resonated when I've read them, but it takes a bit of living to truly appreciate them. To realise we are so much more than our experiences, that we are who we are because of the lessons we've learnt, now that's what true 'beauty' is for me. "

" Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself. "

" The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other. "

" Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face. "

" Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. "

" All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. "

" Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing. "

" Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life. "

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Teachers

Know

Life

" Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference. "

" Beauty is the promise of happiness. "

" I didn't have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. "

" My favourite beauty look is definitely '70s beauty - sun kissed skin, wavy hair and defined eyes. "

" Just because you are blind and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist. "

" When you feel great, you emanate a certain energy that translates as beautiful. I don't care if you have the standard beauty or not; it's that X-factor that comes through, and the basis of that is good health. "

" Now, I'm not saying I'm fashionable, but there are sociological interests that matter to me, things that are theoretical, political, intellectual and also concerned with vanity and beauty that we all think about but that I try to mix up and translate into fashion. "

Miuccia Prada

Political

Beauty

" A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart. "