As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Audrey HepburnRead
I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and... I believe in miracles.
Interpretation
This quote celebrates the joy of embracing beauty and positivity in life.
Audrey Hepburn's quote emphasizes the importance of self-care, confidence, and optimism. By highlighting simple pleasures such as manicures and dressing up, she suggests that taking time for oneself and believing in positive outcomes contributes to inner happiness and beauty. The notion that 'happy girls are the prettiest girls' further reinforces that true beauty emanates from a joyful spirit and a belief in life's potential for miracles.
In practice
During a women's empowerment event, one might quote Hepburn to encourage self-love.
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.
Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world.
I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!
Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.
Live every day with an attitude of gratitude.
All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?
If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.