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"Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit. I was like, 'Look, I can carry a baby! I'm gaining weight right, everything's going well.' And I've had that relationship ever since."
"Beauty is a gift of God."
"Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty."
"For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day."
"Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore."
"Beauty is momentary in the mind -- The fitful tracing of a portal; But in the flesh it is immortal. The body dies; the body's beauty lives. So evenings die, in their green going, A wave, interminably flowing."
"The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves."
"Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song."
"Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best beauty aid is still a near-sighted man."
"A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen; She needs the royalty of beauty's mien."
"Nothing is arbitrary, nothing is insulated in beauty. It depends forever on the necessary and the useful. The plumage of the bird, the mimic plumage of the insect, has a reason for its rich colors in the constitution of the animal. Fitness is so inseparable an accompaniment of beauty, that it, has been taken for it."
"You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king."
"The beauty of Zen is found in simplicity and tranquility, in a sense of the all-embracing harmony of things."
"We each have a moral obligation to conserve and preserve beauty in this world; there is none to waste."
"If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents."
"When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it."
"Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes."
"Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not."
"I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling, let alone be the performer I am. I am a glamour girl through and through. I believe in the glamorous life and I live one."