You're beautiful...

[Cinner]

Wow, Brad! This made me cry! Thank you soooooooo much. I'm subscribing to this thread so that I can work my way through it!

(((BIG HUG)))

 

[lexieredefined]

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[BradBigBrain]

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[Thandi]

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Sending love & strength to Madiba!
Thank you for this one BBB

 

[yossi]

'A Beautiful Body': Photos By Jade Beall

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/304037/slide_304037_2594711_free.jpg?1371751587546

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/304037/slide_304037_2590223_free.jpg?1371676407324

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/304037/slide_304037_2590221_free.jpg?1371676407324

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/304037/slide_304037_2590220_free.jpg?1371676407323

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/304037/slide_304037_2590219_free.jpg?1371676407323

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/304037/slide_304037_2590218_free.jpg?1371676407322

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/304037/slide_304037_2590217_free.jpg?1371676407322

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/304037/slide_304037_2590215_free.jpg?1371676407321

http://i.huffpost.com/gadgets/slideshows/304037/slide_304037_2590210_free.jpg?1371676407317

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/...book-project-jade-beall-photos_n_3467178.html

 

[BradBigBrain]

Moms are beautiful.

 

[BradBigBrain]

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-frc3/971490_571855309504582_1841783939_n.jpg

 

[INeedLove]

http://25.media.tumblr.com/dace273fe8fd77e6c03f968c573bda68/tumblr_mocdc6MTHN1ridig9o1_400.png

 

[imrhapsody]

She Walks in Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
Lord Byron

 

[sunshinegirl05]

She Walks in Beauty

She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impaired the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express
How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
A heart whose love is innocent!
Lord Byron

I love that!

 

[Pinktacokitty]

http://media-cache-ec2.pinimg.com/736x/42/1a/36/421a36f1632ca93d969ccbf27013ca5d.jpg

 

[BlackCashmere]

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Love this...so beautiful to me...

 

[BlackCashmere]

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Lub this...

 

[BlackCashmere]

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[imrhapsody]

A friend shared this link with me on FB and I thought I would post it here.

I know it's a self-confidence thing for most women...their noses are too big or too small, their breasts are too big or too small, their butts are too big or too small, they have brown eyes and wanted to have blue eyes, they want to be a redhead or blonde....

This is a great illustration of how women see themselves and reminds me of the great poem Ode to a Louse by Robert Burns.

O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!

Please watch this video, ladies, and know that you're beautiful.

2 People describing the same person to a forensic artist

Please keep this thread going by posting beauty that may be in just the beholder's eyes.

I share this and Dove Evolution with my middle schoolers every year. Mostly for the young girls who are really beginning to judge themselves, but also for the boys who think that those girls they see in Playboy or other places, are real.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U

 

[Pinktacokitty]

I share this and Dove Evolution with my middle schoolers every year. Mostly for the young girls who are really beginning to judge themselves, but also for the boys who think that those girls they see in Playboy or other places, are real.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U

I know a couple of girls that have posed for Playboy, they are real! You may not like the way they are presented in the Magazine but the girls that pose are real and you know what can be as beautiful and nice inside as you or any person on this site......

just sayin

 

[imrhapsody]

I know a couple of girls that have posed for Playboy, they are real! You may not like the way they are presented in the Magazine but the girls that pose are real and you know what can be as beautiful and nice inside as you or any person on this
just sayin

They are beautiful, no doubt, but they are certainly airbrushed and photoshopped. I am not doubting their beauty inside or out. But no one is flawless physically. The magazine was just an example. You could insert any advertisement or publication you wish.

 

[darkangel86]

This entire thread is amazing!

Everything written on this thread is beautiful. Keep up the positive energy and thank you to the original poster

 

[Pinktacokitty]

They are beautiful, no doubt, but they are certainly airbrushed and photoshopped. I am not doubting their beauty inside or out. But no one is flawless physically. The magazine was just an example. You could insert any advertisement or publication you wish.

That is not what you said, you said they are not real.......How they are presented is an entirely different subject.......

 

[Dona_DeLaCasa]

http://laurajul.dk/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/being-naked.png

So true. this!

 

[imrhapsody]

Everything written on this thread is beautiful. Keep up the positive energy and thank you to the original poster

Yes, this is a beautiful thread and helpful to many women, and girls, self concepts.

 

[imrhapsody]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3jcvgdbvo8

 

[rbijon]

Yes, this is a beautiful thread and helpful to many women, and girls, self concepts.

YOU are beautiful!!!!

 

[imrhapsody]

YOU are beautiful!!!!

That made me a little weepy. Thank you my darling friend. I am back mostly because I so miss you.

 

[ejredlady]

for me this thread has been releasing! I have been able to be a lot more comfortable in my own skin. I know any mature man would know the model bodies aren't the norm, yet my inner critic says "But that is what they compare yours to" and that sucks.
Thank you to the loving lit members who have been so honest about appreciation of more full figured women with real breasts.