What are you thinking?β She asks. -That you are beautiful. That not everyone could see it. I almost became the kind of person who could not.
Interpretation
The quote reflects on the perception of beauty and the struggle of recognizing it in oneself and others.
In this quote, the speaker expresses the thought of beauty in another person and acknowledges that such beauty can often go unnoticed. It reveals an internal conflict where the speaker almost succumbed to a perspective that diminishes appreciation for beauty, highlighting the importance of recognizing and valuing both inner and outer beauty.
In practice
This quote can be used in a speech about self-acceptance and recognizing beauty in ourselves and others.
What is faithfulness, anyway? Can you be unfaithful to your own feelings and faithful to someone else? Is it faithful to lie in bed night after night with someone you love but no longer desire while ardently dreaming of someone else?
Sometimes I write from the point of view of characters whom I would dislike as people, not as a perverse exercise, but because this cracks the story open and makes me see it in a way I would not see it naturally.
A sad person who is so involved with his sadness that he mistakes it for reality will have a hard time seeing himself as anything but sad. For him, the sadness is not a feeling that he experiences - it is him.
Love isn't any one good thing; it's a very, very strange mishmash of emotions. Your love for somebody is, oftentimes, informed by the terrible things you might believe about yourself, and comparatively, the person you see them as is everything that you're not.
It doesn't have to be on Valentine's Day. It doesn't have to be by the time you turn eighteen or thirty-three or fifty-nine. It doesn't have to conform to whatever is usual. It doesn't have to be kismet at once, or rhapsody by the third date. It just has to be. In time. In place. In spirit. It just has to be.
The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet._x000D_ The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet._x000D_ The most beautiful days we haven't seen yet._x000D_ And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you_x000D_ I haven't said yet.
Love simply is. That is the testament of Athena or Sherine or Hagia Sofia - love is. No definitions. Love and don't ask too many questions. Just love.
One word _x000D_ _x000D_ Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:_x000D_ _x000D_ That word is love.
A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.
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