It’s 5 Minute Friday with Gypsy Mama!!!
Today’s prompt: Beauty
“For beautiful lips speak only words of kindness”
I’ve it said many times during the teenage years: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Beauty is on the inside. Beauty is skin deep. I rolled my eyes then as a vigorously applied eye liner.
I’ve been wanting a boob job and a nose job ever since I was 16. I finally had the opportunity to do it and when I sat down and thought about it some more I realized that I really don’t want those cosmetic surgeries. What I really want is the love and respect I THINK I’ll get from those close to me. Strip away all of it and I have to ask myself why I feel like I do not get those things. My words. My words kill. My words seek and destroy. My mouth is a wielding sword. The people I love somehow are always the primary targets. (I don't know why blogger wants to underline that...)
Regardless of my looks, what pours out of my mouth is what others will see. How I make them feel is what they’ll remember.
True beauty lies in your words. The outpouring of your heart.
“For beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years."
— Audrey Hepburn
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of each of your arms.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mode but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives the passion that she shows. The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years."
— Audrey Hepburn
I love that quote - especially: People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed; never throw out anyone. When we've been thrown out or written off, these words are precious. You are wise to recognize the surgery we need to be beautiful is in the heart, in the mind - this inner overhaul is the work of God's spirit in us -- he makes us beautiful (and I too, hate my nose and just knew I'd have pimples and wrinkles simultaneously-- I'm 41 and I do, and it doesn't matter as much as I thought it would :)
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