Beauty ensnares hearts, captures minds, and stirs up emotional wildfires. From Plato to pinups, images of human beauty have catered to a limitless desire to see and imagine an ideal human form.

The formula for a happy marriage is five positive remarks, or interactions, for every one negative.

Beauty draws us in. We can't stop looking or listening or touching. It takes us outside ourselves and it motivates us. It's essential to life and to happiness.

The idea that beauty is unimportant is the real beauty myth.

Appearance is the most public part of the self. It is our sacrament, the visible self that the world assumes to be a mirror of the invisible, inner self.

The idea that beauty is unimportant or a cultural construct is the real beauty myth. We have to understand beauty, or we will always be enslaved by it.

In Brazil there are more Avon ladies than members of the army. In the United States more money is spent on beauty than on education or social services.

Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings.

throughout human history people have scarred, painted, pierced, padded, stiffened, plucked, and buffed their bodies in the name of beauty.

Physical beauty is like athletic skill: it peaks young.

There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel that no one else has the right to blame us.

You can promote your healing by your thinking.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Approach any room with the goal of making it the most attractive and comfortable, the room you want to live in the most.

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

I feel an almost overwhelming interest in the methods of daylight abduction employed by the modern youth.

You shouldn't have done that.

Rather than bring peace and harmony, the EU will cause insurgency and violence.

Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the policy was made for corrupt purposes, I reject it.

I felt good full figured. Morbidly obese I was unhealthy and dying.