I find, you can nourish inner beauty by moisturising outwardly.

Never underestimate a good lotion, it can instantly make your body feel fabulous, and nourish your tender needs more so often than a partner.

When you love you, others will see you loving you, and love you too!

Listening to your heart is encouraged, but not if it feels like squeezing lemons in an open wound, command your mind to stop it and instead, drink a refreshing lemon quash.

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape in someone else's gaze, to lie under a blue sky and dream of helpless, selfless love, to behold itself, illuminated, in the golden light of another's eyes.

Beauty shouldn’t be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It’s about knowing that someone else’s definition of pretty has no hold over you.