"Is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me."
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"Beauty is an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness."
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"Be yourself. The world worships the original."
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"You are here to enable the divine purpose of the Universe to unfold. That is how important you are!"
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"We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically."
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"Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful."
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"Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty."
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"How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin - that's what really makes you beautiful."
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"How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days."
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"What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine."
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"Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love."
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"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
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"The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
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"It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it."
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"The Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea are made of the same water. It flows down, clean and cool, from the heights of Herman and the roots of the cedars of Lebanon. the Sea of Galilee makes beauty of it, the Sea of Galilee has an outlet. It gets to give. It gathers in its riches that it may pour them out again to fertilize the Jordan plain. But the Dead Sea with the same water makes horror. For the Dead Sea has no outlet. It gets to keep."
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"Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
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"I don't believe makeup and the right hairstyle alone can make a woman beautiful. The most radiant woman in the room is the one full of life and experience."
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"Within You is the Light of a Thousand Suns. - Within You is Unimaginable Beauty."
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"Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind."
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"Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too, as in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life, in actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues."
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