As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Audrey HepburnRead
Beauty is being the best possible version of yourself, inside and out.
Interpretation
True beauty comes from being authentic and striving to improve oneself.
This quote by Audrey Hepburn emphasizes that real beauty is not just about physical appearance, but more importantly, it's about being the best version of oneself in character and spirit. It encourages individuals to cultivate their inner qualities and embrace who they are, as this authenticity radiates true beauty to the outside world.
In practice
This quote can be used as inspiration during a personal development workshop.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
On the one hand maybe Iβve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.
This is what you do on your very first day in Paris. You get yourself, not a drizzle, but some honest-to-goodness rain, and you find yourself someone really nice and drive her through the Bois de Boulogne in a taxi. The rain's very important. That's when Paris smells its sweetest. It's the damp chestnut trees.
I speak for those children who cannot speak for themselves, children who have absolutely nothing but their courage and their smiles, their wits and their dreams.
The way to healthy living is to shift from quantitative economic growth to quality of life, food, water and air - to shift from craving to contentment and from greed to gratitude
Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.
Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.
In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.
I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make you happy, can't it, even if it isn't real.
I've spent so much time feeling ugly and being treated as ugly as a result. But I changed my attitude and said, βIβm beautiful because I love everybody as much as I can. Iβm beautiful because I have wonderful friends. And Iβm beautiful because I say I am. Iβve earned it, and Iβm gonna be it.
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