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For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
She was a lot of things. She was sweet. She was mean. She was afraid, yet so brave. She was wild, but so serene. Her quietude covered her craziness. She was a world of mixes, a universe of contradictories, but she did it so perfectly, with so much elegance. She was neither pretty nor distasteful, just the right amount of beauty to make you fall immensely and completely in love with her. She was the beautiful sky filled with dull gray clouds. She was many things in a world so cruel. But mostly she was hurt, she didn’t know where she belonged. She didn’t know where she stood on the scale of hot to cold. She was one thing and then the next. She wanted to be certain of who she was. She didn’t know the feeling of in between. She was either extraordinarily passionate or distastefully nothing. She just wanted to be something in a world full of nothings. She was many things. But mostly she was just broken.
thezeediaries (via wordsnquotes)
If a girl says she wants to cut her hair short and your response is “I don’t like girls with short hair”, you probably need to back up and think about how the world doesn’t actually revolve around you.
Positive emotions that have no direct English translation
- Ah-un (Japanese): Unspoken communication between close friends
- Að jenna (Icelandic): The ability to persevere through hard or boring tasks
- Cafune (Portuguese): Tenderly running fingers through a loved one’s hair
- Fargin (Yiddish): To glow with pride at the success of others
- Gökotta (Swedish): Waking up early to hear the first birds sing
- Gula (Spanish): The desire to eat simply for the taste
- Iktsuarpok (Inuit): The anticipation felt when waiting for someone
- Kreng-jai (Thai): The wish to not trouble someone by burdening them
- Mbuki-mvuki (Bantu): To shed clothes to dance uninhibited
- Querencia (Spanish): A secure place from which one draws strength
- Santosha (Sanskrit): Contentment arising from personal interaction
- Sarang (Korean): The wish to be with someone until death
- Schnapsidee (German): An ingenious plan hatched while drunk
- Seijaku (Japanese): Serenity in the midst of chaos
- Sobremesa (Spanish): When the food is gone but the conversation is still flowing
- Tarab (Arabic): Musically-induced ecstasy or enchantment
- Toska (Russian): A wistful longing for one’s homeland
- Uitwaain (Dutch): Walking in the wind for fun
- Waldeinsamskeit (German): A mysterious feeling of solitude in the woods
- Yuan fen (Chinese): A binding force impelling a destined relationship
- Yutta-hey (Cherokee): Leaving life at its zenith; departing in glory.
The secret to being who you want to be
Lately I’ve realised the power of self-image. Rather than having an image of yourself that you want to be in the future, imagine that you are that image.
A month ago, I wanted to be a studious, disciplined person. At the time, I was pretty lazy. One day walking to class, I thought, ‘I am a studious, disciplined person’, and the more I thought it, the more I believed it. The more I believed it, the more I became it.
Don’t wait to become who you want to be. Just be. And believe.
❝Beauty is not long hair, skinny legs, tanned skin or perfect teeth. Believe me. Beauty is the face of who cried and now smiles, beauty is the scar on your knee since you fell when you were a kid, beauty is the circles when love doesn’t let you sleep, beauty is the expression on the face when the alarm rings in the morning, it’s the melted makeup when you have a shower, it’s the laughter when you make a joke you’re the only one who can understand, beauty is meeting his gaze and stopping understanding, beauty is your gaze when you see him, it’s when you cry for all you paranoias, beauty is the lines marked by time. Beauty is what we feel in the inside which also shows outside us. Beauty is the marks the life leaves on us, all the kicks and the caresses the memories leave us. Beauty is letting yourself live.❞
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