Maybe it’s NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.
Mandy HaleStichwörter: beauty confidence self-worth inner-beauty makeup beautiful positive-thinking being-yourself loving-yourself maybelline accepting-yourself
Outer beauty pleases the EYE. Inner beauty captivates the HEART.
Mandy HaleStichwörter: beauty confidence self-worth inner-beauty beautiful positive-thinking true-beauty loving-yourself outer-beauty being-beautiful the-single-woman accepting-yourself it-s-what-s-inside-that-counts
Here's the thing about Hazel: Almost everyone is obsessed with leaving a mark upon the world. Bequeathing a legacy. Outlasting death. We all want to be remembered. I do, too. That's what bothers me most, is being another unremembered casualty in the ancient and inglorious war against disease.
I want to leave a mark.
But Van Houten: The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rock star and you think, "They'll remember me now," but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) all you leave behind are more scars. Your coup becomes a dictatorship. Your minimall becomes a lesion.
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We are like a bunch of dogs squirting on fire hydrants. We poison the groundwater with our toxic piss, marking everything MINE in a ridiculous attempt to survive our deaths. I can't stop pissing on fire hydrants. I know it's silly and useless--epically useless in my current state--but I am an animal like any other.
Hazel is different. She walks lightly, old man. She walks lightly upon the earth. Hazel knows the truth: We're as likely to hurt the universe as we are to help it, and we're not likely to do either.
People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.
The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.
...
But then I wanted more time so we could fall in love. I got my wish, I suppose. I left my scar.
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What else? She is so beautiful. You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don't get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
Stichwörter: love animals dogs death hurt eulogy survival scars choices dying legacy making-a-difference beautiful disease fire-hydrant
One day when I ventured into the garden to regard its bloom,
My eyes beheld on a bower a withered rose.
When I inquired what had caused the blight,
"My lips for a moment opened in a smile in this garden," it replied.
Stichwörter: life poetry sadness beautiful
Have all beautiful things sad destinies?
Jean RhysStichwörter: beauty sad destiny question beautiful
Put me
underneath God's sky and
know me
don't just look at me with your eyes
Take away
this mask of flesh and bone and
see me
for my soul
alone
Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for his. His was a great and beautiful spirit, he was a man – all man, from his crown to his footsoles. My reverence for him was deep and genuine.
Mark TwainStichwörter: inspirational friend friendship love death eulogy respect grief honor praise funeral beautiful reverence brotherhood ingersoll robert-g-ingersoll robert-green-ingersoll robert-ingersoll
Beautiful toes are an addition to a woman’s appearance.
Ellen J. BarrierStichwörter: woman beauty beautiful appearance toes
...and on some nights in bed, in that moment before sleep erased the day, I would picture the way the sky in Lapland looked the morning I left, how the train had sped south beneath a sky that was brighter than it had been in weeks. It had pulsed with reds and oranges, as though hiding a beating heart.
Vendela VidaSometimes the most beautiful things are in front of our eyes, and we don’t even notice because we’re either too busy or too afraid to take a closer look.
Katja MichaelStichwörter: fear inspirational love eyes afraid beautiful closer-look
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