All things beautiful

sábado, 24 de julho de 2021

sexta-feira, 23 de julho de 2021

Claudia Cardinale

Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale is an Italian Tunisian film actress who starred in some of the most acclaimed European films of the 1960s and 1970s.

I never felt scandal and confession were necessary to be an actress. I've never revealed myself or even my body in films. Mystery is very important.

Home, Sweet Home - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home; A charm from the sky seems to hallow us there, Which, seek through the world, is ne'er met with elsewhere. John Howard Payne

quinta-feira, 22 de julho de 2021

Iconic dresses on display

Turquoise dress Queen wore for Princess Margaret’s marriage to

Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1960.

Princess Margaret's cream gown, created in 1951

NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS: The iconic William Travilla gown,

worn by Marilyn Monroe,

It was a gown so tight that Marilyn Monroe needed to be sewn into it.

Here's a dozen of my favorite things never to apologize for:

1) Never apologize for acting on your instincts.
2) Never apologize for being passionate.
3) Never apologize for being smart.
4) Never apologize for demanding respect.
5) Never apologize for saying no.
6) Never apologize for not embracing someone else's agenda.
7) Never apologize for disagreeing.
8) Never apologize for your faith.
9) Never apologize for your own sense of creativity.
10) Never apologize for ordering dessert.
11) Never apologize for being funny.
12) Never apologize for living your truth.

Every one of us casts a shadow.

There hangs about us, a sort of a strange, indefinable something, which we call personal influence--that has its effect on every other life on which it falls. It goes with us wherever we go. It is not something we can have when we want to have it--and then lay aside when we will, as we lay aside a garment. It is something that always pours out from our lives . . . as light from a lamp, as heat from flame, as perfume from a flower.

The ministry of personal influence is something very wonderful. Without being conscious of it, we are always impressing others by this strange power that exudes from us. Others watch us--and their thinking and actions are modified by our influence."

"Be very careful, then, how you live--not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity." Ephesians 5:15-16

~J. R. Miller, "The Shadows We Cast"