If it could only be like this always–always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe. – Evelyn Waugh

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That’s one of the things I love about makeup. You can change your whole attitude by just doing your eyeliner or lipstick differently. — Beyoncé

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When you paint success pictures in your mind, you initiate an inner process whereby your attitudes, hopes, aspirations, and enthusiasm are elevated in response to an image of a more promising future. Every person who aspires must first sell themselves hope, the promise of a better life.

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We were all born carrying a promise -- a promise to make the world better -- and there's a yearning to make good on that promise that none of us can suppress forever.

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Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

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The promise of equality is not the same as true equality. -- Sheryl Sandberg

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How you look and how you feel: they’re the same. — Bobbi Brown

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To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall. – Ann Patchett

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I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. — Audrey Hepburn

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The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.

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