Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

Dove advert/ Sketches

I can’t remember the last time I couldn’t wait to ‘Skip’ a You Tube ad. This was worth all of my four minutes.

Our perceptions of body image are mostly distorted and misguided. Not only are we are so critical of ourselves but we feel the need to measure up (pun intended). Ideas of beauty are both commercialised and socialised to belittle and it is hard for a girl to find a sense of self in between. Here is my two cents: Own yourself, character is everything and beauty -I truly believe- radiates. It is not a physical thing; I’ve found that beauty is not tangible and that the most beautiful people I know radiate it -the way light would shoot through the dark.

Being Real

"Being real is more a process of letting go than it is the effort of becoming. I don't have to become me--although at times it feels this way--I am already me. And that is both the easiest and the hardest thing for me to realize."
__Notes to Myself by Hugh Prather.

Like is the Sea

She reminded me of the sea; the way she came dancing towards you, wild and beautiful, and just when she was almost close enough to touch she’d rush away again.

— Glenda Millard, from A Small Free Kiss in the Dark

Just because I miss France today...

 

....and France in the Spring is a thing of beauty.


“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
― John Keats

Miss Winehouse, for a rainy day in Jo'burg

            /Amy Winehouse Performs "Wake Up Alone" At Shepards Bush London

These words

The meeting of the souls

"A soul connection is a resonance between two people who respond to the essential beauty of each other’s individual natures, behind their facades, and who connect on this deeper level. This kind of mutual recognition provides the catalyst for a potent alchemy. It is a sacred alliance whose purpose is to help both partners discover and realize their deepest potentials. While a heart connection lets us appreciate those we love just as they are, a soul connection opens up a further dimension… seeing and loving them for who they could be, and for who we could become under their influence. This means recognizing that we both have an important part to play in helping each other become more fully who we are. A soul connection not only inspires us to expand, but also forces us to confront whatever stands in the way of that expansion."

— John Welwood 

For the Thinkers

“
Our disrespect for thinking: 
someone sitting in a chair, 
gazing out of a window blankly, 
always described as ‘doing nothing'


— Alain de Botton

The road less traveled