A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
Carly SimonRead
You don't have to prove to me you're beautiful to strangers, I've got loving eyes of my own.
Interpretation
True beauty is recognized by those who love you, not by strangers.
Carly Simon's quote emphasizes that genuine love and appreciation do not require validation from outsiders. It speaks to the idea that those who truly care for us see our beauty, both inside and out, regardless of societal standards or the opinions of strangers.
In practice
A friend comforts you, saying this quote when you feel unattractive after a bad day.
A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.
Do you believe in destiny? That even the powers of time can be altered for a single purpose? That the luckiest man who walks on this earth is the one who finds⦠true love?
I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.
It is only by fidelity in little things that the grace of true love to God can be sustained, and distinguished from a passing fervor of spirit. . . . No one can well believe that our piety is sincere, when our behavior is lax and irregular in its little details. What probability is there that we should not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices, when we shrink from the smallest?
He's a very nice man and all that, easy to get along with, fun, he never makes me cry. But is that love? I mean, is that all there is to it? Even when you learned to ride your two-wheeler, you had to fall off a few times and scrape both knees. Call it a rite of passage. And that was just a little thing.
And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?
I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.
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