D-Xirably Good Times! Part 1! July and August 2013!

Hello my wonderful and amazing loves!

So recently, I've been having a lot of good times and fun memories! To start off this multiple part post, I would like to post some random pictures of me that were taken over the past few weeks.

"Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she's beautiful but don't have anything to talk about, it's going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person."

~Amanda Peet

“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”
― Marilyn Monroe

"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”

― Marilyn Monroe

“The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. True beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It's the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows & the beauty of a woman only grows with passing years.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.”

― Marilyn Monroe

“A woman can be beautiful as well as intellectual.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

― Maya Angelou

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.”

― Scott Westerfeld, Uglies    

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
― Bob Dylan

“Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.”
― Drew Barrymore

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh

“To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.”
― Marilyn Monroe

Hope you enjoyed the pictures and quotes!

Love always,

LaTasha B.

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A D-Xirable Poem! Maya Angelou "Still I Rise"

"Every time you judge yourself, you break your own heart." 
- Unknown

If you don't know the kind of person I am,

And I don't know the kind of person you are;

Then we should LOVE one another,

And not judge each other.

Hello my wonderful and amazing loves!

I decided to do this post on one of my favorite poems, "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou. I came across it the other day and I thought that it would make a lovely addition to my blog. It's such a beautiful and inspiring poem!

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”

― Mother Teresa

“Who are you to judge the life I live?
I know I'm not perfect
-and I don't live to be-
but before you start pointing fingers...
make sure you hands are clean!”
― Bob Marley

"Still I Rise"

by Maya Angelou

 Fine Artist: Greg Garner of New York City

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops.

Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don't you take it awful hard

'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines

Diggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I've got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame

I rise

Up from a past that's rooted in pain

I rise

I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise.

 "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

― Dr. Seuss

"People are going to talk about you no matter what you do so I’d much rather be judged for standing out than for fitting in."

― Unknown

People will talk about you, people may even say some bad things about you, just remember to always rise when others try to bring you down! It doesn't matter what others think about you, how they feel about you, or what they say about you, just be yourself. Be true to who you are! There's no one on this planet that's exactly like you. You are unique, you are special, and more importantly, you are one of a kind! Just be true to you! People will love you for just doing that! Besides, no one knows you better than you know yourself. :)

 “The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
― Bob Marley

Hope you enjoyed the post!

Love always,

LaTasha B.

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