Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.

He knew me in all the ways that truly mattered: the shape of my fears, the contours of my dreams.

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.

No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

There is a time to study a map passionately, obsessively. To see where you've gone, where others have gone before you. To commit to memory every obstacle, every danger. Shakespeare had a term for this obsession: mappery. But there is a time, too, when you say, come dragons. I challenge you to find me.

Maybe we don't have the same definition of about what's beautiful. So define it. Define true beauty.

Hey, if it's a good philosophy, it works. Death is imminent. Live every day like it's your last.