Monday 14 January 2008

Inner Beauty

'For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

People even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed. Never throw out anybody.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows, and the beauty as a woman with passing years only grows.'

As a child in the Netherlands, Audrey Hepburn nearly died of hunger in a country devastated by World War Two, and was rescued by the UN Refugee programme. Towards the end of her life she was asked about her beauty secrets. She replied with remarkable grace.