"I know, now, without a doubt that the true source of happiness, self-worth, and authentic beauty doesn't come from the outside. Women are constantly being persuaded to want something unachievable, to look younger or thinner and above all to fit in because being different is too painful and embarassing. I have accepted myself in a world that does not accept me, because I have learned [ . . . ] that our hearts matter most... It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life."

-- Stephanie Nielson

#Beautiful Quotes #Heart Quotes #Self Worth Quotes

“The only way for us to come out of poverty is to work hard. Poverty means begging throughout the world.”

Source : Source: www.theguardian.com
“Initially I borrowed the word â€œperverseâ€ from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a service or a product. An unproductive photograph designed to keep you in the process of looking is of course something larger than an expression of aberrant sexuality.”
“Sure, I've seen people like you before - but I had to pay an admission.”
“I can actually cook one meal now, as opposed to before, when I could cook nothing. My family are very excited.”
“A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.”
“Human life without some form of poetry is not human life but animal existence.”

Source : "Poetry and the Age" by Randall Jarrell, Vintage paperback, (p. 22), 1955.
“Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination.”
“The vision of personalised public services - meeting the individual needs of all our citizens - requires continuing reform in the way services are delivered”

Source : Gordon Brown (2006). “Speeches, 1997-2006”, Bloomsbury Pub Limited

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