Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Coco ChanelRead
If you were born without wings, do nothing to prevent them from growing.
Interpretation
Embrace your potential and strive to grow beyond limitations.
This quote by Coco Chanel encourages individuals to nurture their inherent abilities and aspirations, regardless of their starting point in life. It suggests that one should not hinder personal growth or limit oneself due to initial circumstances, but rather seek to cultivate the 'wings' that symbolize freedom and the potential to soar above challenges.
In practice
During a motivational speech to students about pursuing their dreams.
Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them.
Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity.
Success is often achieved by those who don't know that failure is inevitable.
You can be gorgeous at thirty, charming at forty, and irresistible for the rest of your life.
Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress.
Look for the woman in the dress. If there is no woman, there is no dress.
I thought, 'Let's make it a check list. What if I got my education even though I lost my mother, even though my dad is in a shelter?' and looking at these things as hurdles to go over. I could inspire myself.
I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and frolicsome. I want to be improbable and beautiful and afraid of nothing as though I had wings.
If I can have any impact, I want women to feel good about themselves and have fun with fashion
You are desperate to communicate, to edify or entertain, to preserve moments of grace or joy or transcendence, to make real or imagined events come alive. But you cannot will this to happen. It is a matter of persistence and faith and hard work. So you might as well just go ahead and get started.
For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.
If this world is going to be reached, I am convinced that it must be done by men and women of average talent.
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