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***** QUOTES ON BEAUTY *****


~ Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic. - Rosalind Russell


~ You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing. - Marie Stopes



~ The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. - Sir Francis Bacon



~ People are like stained-glass windows: They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross



~ Charm is a bloom on a woman. If you have it, you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it doesn't much matter what else you have. - JM Barrie



~ Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. - Sophia Loren



~ It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy



~ Beauty, in projection and perceiving, is 99.9% attitude. - Grey Livingston



~ God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. - Shakespeare



~ Decorate yourself from the inside out. - Andrei Turnhollow




***** QUOTES ABOUT HEALTH *****



~ The greatest wealth is health. - Virgil



~ All the things I really like to do are either illegal, immoral, or fattening. - Alexander Wolcott



~ As long as you live, keep learning how to live. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca



~ The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not. - Mark Twain



~ If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself. - Leon Eldred



~ There's lots of people in this world who spend so much time watching their health that they haven't the time to enjoy it. - Josh Billings




~ The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind. - G.K. Chesterton



~ The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning “ability to,” and bics, meaning “withstand tremendous boredom. - Dave Barry



~ Nothing is more fatal to Health, than an over Care of it. - Benjamin Franklin




***** SELF-ESTEEM QUOTES *****



~ Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it. - Gloria Steinem



~ Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde


~ Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. - Judy Garland


~ We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves. - François Duc de La Rochefoucauld



~ It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. - e.e. cummings



~ Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep. - Samuel Johnson



~ To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgment, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. Approval cannot be trusted: It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy, yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.
- Rachel Naomi Remen



~ How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. - Coco Chanel



~ I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I've written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part. - Shirley MacLaine




~ Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. - Henri Frederic Amiel




~ The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh



~ You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. - Irene C. Kassorla



~ It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. - Andre Gide


~ We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut



~ One's real life is often the life that one does not lead. - Oscar Wilde



~ Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues. - Hugh Prather



~ The authentic self is the soul made visible. - Sarah Ban Breathnach



~ Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue. - John Herschel



~ Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners. - Laurence Sterne



~ A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyone else. - Cardinal De Retz



~ He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away. - Raymond Hull