Are you not magnificent? Or you will be, someday. But first, you must earn your beauty.

N K Jemisin, Emergency Skin

Hermetic quote Jemisin Emergency Skin earn your beauty

Consider also:

  1. Most translations have caught meanings in their net, but prosily, letting the beauty slip through. And in poetry, beauty is no ornament; it is the meaning. It is the truth. We have that on good authority.
  2. “He would just have to earn it honestly. Disgusting, the depths to which he had sunk.”
  3. “I am afraid my tastes are not sufficiently aesthetic to allow me to appreciate a sickly style of beauty.”
  4. “Beauty, the sacred lotus: let me say The word, and make my purity complete. The whole is mine, and shall I keep a part? O Beauty, I must see thee as thou art!”
  5. “Then on my withered gaze that Beauty grew– Rosy quintessence of alchemic dew! The Self-informing Beauty! In my heart the many were united: and I knew.”