If you try to view yourself through the lenses that others offer you, all you will see are distortions; your own light and beauty will become blurred, awkward, and ugly. Your sense of inner beauty has to remain a very private thing.
John O'Donohue
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the situations. So, ju... SAAD ATTARWALA A secret to your progress will be a strong belief in your own abilities. People will try to hold you... TROY GATHERS In the end, you will not see the physical beauty in others that caught your eye, but the fire that b... SHANNON L. ALDER Having inner beauty is something you develop on your own, and I like to think I have that. CINDY MARGOLIS Take off all your makeup, clothes, and weave..if you still look good..then you are a natural beauty.... NERISSA IRVING Witchcraft isn't about picking up a book, and asking forgiveness.. or learning about spirituality th... CARLA VANKOUGHNETT I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I ... MAHATMA GANDHI If you have to fall in love, fall in love with the magnificent beauty of a sunset. That love will be... DEBASISH MRIDHA Confidence comes from within. You teach people how to perceive you, by your own example of how you p... LINDSEY RIETZSCH The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender... GEORGE CARLIN You will have to experiment and try things out for yourself and you will not be sure of what you are... EMILY CARR You must trust yourself more than you trust others. Pay attention to your inner voice - it will tell... SUZE ORMAN Be the light. Let others see their beauty of being in your light. DEBASISH MRIDHA You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your sou... MARIE STOPES Don't be a reflection of your depression, your dark, or your ugly. Reflect what you want. Your light... TIFFANY LUARD When you are blessed with a beautiful light, don’t ask where it comes from or why it comes, how it... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and ... NATE BERKUS Don’t just use a map to travel. Use your new experience to map out your soul & your spirit. When y... KARINA GAROSA Healing your wounds will hurt, so cry. Cry your pretty little heart out until you have nothing... NIKKI ROWE Beauty is not static. You cannot point your finger at something and say there’s beauty. Like all n... ANURADHA BHATTACHARYYA Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face. DOLORES DEL RIO God has already equipped you with the skills you need to achieve your dreams. If you just try, work ... GERMANY KENT Creativity is ability to create new purposeful ideas .Beauty of inner thoughts are blossomed as crea... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Trust your instinct & your inner voice.If you are honest to yourself,your instinct will never lie yo... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its root... 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in your heart, the beauty th... JAMES ALLEN If you find your comfort zone, if you find your space, you will be a person in your own rights and y... APURVA GAGLANI But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns an... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Rejoicing is grounded in gratitude, with a keen appreciation for yourself, others, your abundance, a... SUSAN C. YOUNG When you commit to excellence , you will suddenly start to see the quality of your life escalate. Yo... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If you are not sure enough about your beliefs, you will not be able to use all your inner capacity a... SUNDAY ADELAJA Someone will always offer you their point of view, and some you will take - without even thinking ab... ELIZABETH ALRAUNE You are preparing yourself for a scene, and the most important thing is to remain emotionally availa... GALE HAROLD The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean a... C.S. LEWIS Stand in the sunshine of love. Bathe in the beauty that is life, that is you. Put love into everythi... AKIROQ BROST Be kind. It will reveal your true inner beauty. DEBASISH MRIDHA Show yourself to the darkness, they said, and then you will see your face." --Nero Slyve... ALMNEY KING I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I ... MAHATMA GANDHI I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I ... MAHATMA GHANDI Consider this well, O Saints, O Siblings of Destiny - search your own hearts, seek and find Him ther... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Once you go inside and weed through the muck, you will find the real beauty, the truth about yoursel... LINDSAY WAGNER The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of your life learning, growing stronger, more ca... BRANDON MULL My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has... NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON If you don’t know your maker, chances are that you will never know yourself. If you don’t know y... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Sometimes you'll remove the log from your own eyes and to your amazement; you will see that your fri... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You are your own worst enemy. If you can learn to stop expecting impossible perfection, in yourself ... LISA KLEYPAS Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. PHYLLIS DILLER Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age -- as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight. PHYLLIS DILLER And when you finally realize you made a mistake bending to his will, changing yourself his wishes to... EVY MICHAELS Concern is feeling of worry . When you are concerned for other outweighing your concern for yourself... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA People that have been consistently hurt by others in life will only see the one time you hurt them a... SHANNON L. ALDER When you affirm your own rightness in the universe, then you co-operate with others easily and autom... JANE ROBERTS When you say ugly you mean your beauty is not now in style. HéCTOR ABAD FACIOLINCE As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush ... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Believe me, You will surely see the light. even if you are in a darkest room though, It will go in t... CHANDRA BOBBY Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations ... WAYNE DYER One day, you will stand at the summit of a figurative mountain and look back on your life's journey.... SETH ADAM SMITH If they love you for anything, it will be for your beauty. MELISSA BASHARDOUST You will find beauty in every person and experience if beauty has been cultivated within. BRYANT MCGILL Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream. JAMES ROSS If you try to make something just to fit your uninformed view of some hypothetical market, you will ... HUGH MACLEOD Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and m... DOGEN I think self-belief is a massive thing in football. If you don't believe in yourself, not many o... HARRY KANE Sometimes you have step out of yourself and really watch what is going on in front of you like you a... NERISSA IRVING You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gi... JANE ROBERTS Be yourself despite what others think. When a person tries to dictate your thoughts, your opinions, ... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If... DAG HAMMARSKJOLD If you feel rejected by others, do not deprive yourself. There will always be someone who will accep... SAAIF ALAM
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O'ROURKE The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations! JENNIFER O'NEILL Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ... ERIN O'RIORDAN Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his... FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. FLANNERY O'CONNOR By subsidiarity is meant the principle that responsibilities should be devolved to the lowest viable... DENIS O'BRIEN For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr... FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. P.J. O'ROURKE I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school leve... P.J. O'ROURKE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings. FLANN O'BRIEN When all else fails, there's always delusion. CONAN O'BRIEN You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone e... JENNIFER O'NEILL The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw ev... JOSEPH O'NEILL I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard... R.B. O'BRIEN You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,... TIM O'BRIEN They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these wer... TIM O'BRIEN I was a coward. I went to the war. TIM O'BRIEN To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing ... TIM O'BRIEN Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mat... TIM O'BRIEN Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like bein... TIM O'BRIEN Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of y... TIM O'BRIEN It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn s... TIM O'BRIEN In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seem... TIM O'BRIEN It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course,... TIM O'BRIEN He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, ... TIM O'BRIEN And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for.... TIM O'BRIEN What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end... TIM O'BRIEN It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to d... TIM O'BRIEN you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. TIM O'BRIEN But in a story, which is a kind of dreaming, the dead sometimes smile and sit up and return to the w... TIM O'BRIEN War is hell, but that's not the half of it, because war is also mystery and terror and adventure and... TIM O'BRIEN I survived, but it's not a happy ending. TIM O'BRIEN Stories are for joining the past to the future. Stories are for those late hours in the night when y... TIM O'BRIEN The thing about a story is that you dream it as you tell it, hoping that others might then dream alo... TIM O'BRIEN