Being beautiful is accomplished everytime you don't wear make-up.
All ups and downs help you to find a balance in your being. No more ups and downs, but bliss, joy, silence and gratitude.
If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.
We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
I've never realized that I would learn, understand, and realize a lot of things from being silent