“The human soul needs beauty more than bread.”

You can’t insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.

She would have thought a woman would have died of shame. Instead of which, the shame died.

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

Sleep is still most perfect, in spite of hygienists, when it is shared with a beloved.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Only youth has a taste of immortality.

But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

Instead of chopping yourself down to fit the world, chop the world down to fit yourself.

Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.

Give up bearing children and bear hope and love and devotion to those already born.

We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

Life is ours to be spent, not to be saved.

Trust the patience. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of life.⁠

The answer must be, I think, that beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

I cried over beauty, I cried over pain, and the other time I cried because I felt nothing. I can’t help it. I’m just a cliché of myself.

It’s the beauty in her, But when the makeup occur, I don’t see it, All i see is a blur.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

Beauty starts in your head, not in your mirror.

One of my beauty secrets is that I dry brush every morning before I shower. It’s a great way to get your circulation going and remove dead skin cells.

I love to dry body brush every day as it improves circulation and exfoliates.