"The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well and harmoniously developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes, grace and animation of carriage- all these things which are essential to beauty are the conditions of health."

-- Havelock Ellis

#Character Quotes #Eye Quotes #Expression Quotes

“Tom DeLay ought to go back to Houston where he can serve his jail sentence.”
“The function of art is to struggle against obligation.”
“The dialogue of architecture has been centered too long around the idea of truth.”
“The jamaat was an almost silly mish-mash of people: Rude Dawudâ€™s pork-pie hat poking up here, a jalab-and-turban there, Jehangirâ€™s big Mohawk rising from a sea of kufis, Amazing Ayyub still with no shirt, girls scattered throughout â€“ some in hejab, some not and Rabeya in punk-patched burqa doing her thing. But in its randomness it was gorgeous, reflecting an Islam I felt could not happen anywhere else ... If Islam was to be saved, it would be saved by the crazy ones: Jehangir and Rabeya and Fasiq and Dawud and Ayyub and even Umar.”
“Yes, things happened to me - brutal things - but I'm not going to give them so much clout by dwelling on them, empowering them to haunt my heart years after the events transpired. And no good comes from that. These ghosts don't need us to help them stay alive. If we're after real deal healing, these ghosts must desiccate.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Vain is equivalent to empty; thus vanity is so miserable a thing, that one cannot give it a worse name than its own. It proclaims itself for what it is.”
“It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.”
“It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside.”

Source : Gretel Ehrlich (1992). “Islands, the universe, home”, Penguin Group USA

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