Let the glossy spreads have their heart-stopping, head-turning kind of beauty. Give me the heart-filling beauty instead. Jolie laide, that's what I would choose. Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.

What swells inside me is a love so boundless, I am the sunrise and sunset. I am Liberty Bell in the Cascades. I am Beihai Lake. I am every beautiful, truly beautiful, thing I've ever seen, captured in my personal Geographia, the atlas of myself.

You would be surprised what two hours of daily exercise and five hundred stomach crunches can do for you.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

You don't need a geochache for this one." "You don't, huh?" "Nope.. here I am. Here I am.

Jolie laide = "pretty ugly" Draws you to it...bored into heart and mind.