"Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue."

-- Plotinus

#Beautiful Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Finding Yourself Quotes

“Reading texts is no substitute for meditation and practicing Zen. If you read a book about a place, and you want to go there, you don't keep reading the book. You have to travel. That's what practice is about. Traveling. Walking the path.”
“Sirk was every womans dream of a director.”
“People say friends don't destroy one another - what do they know about friends?”
“ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.”
“Women see through each other, but they rarely look into themselves.”

Source : Theodor Reik (1970). “Of Love and Lust: On the Psychoanalysis of Romantic and Sexual Emotions”
“What does this program/team need this week?”
“I have never followed what people say it is 'fashionable'. I think that a woman must wear what fits her. That is why I created a style appropriated to my type and my artistical genre.”
“I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, I'd want to set it in a place that was familiar to me - Manhattan, where I'd grown up - and I'd model the characters on myself and my friends.”

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