Such a beautiful Quote....

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not fine yourself
beautiful yet, act as does the creator of a statue that is to be made
beautiful: he cuts away here, he smoothes there, he makes this line
lighter, this other purer, until a lovely face has grown his work.
So do you also: cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is
crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labor to make all one
glow or beauty and never cease chiseling your statue, until there shall
shine out on you from it the godlike splendor of virtue, until you see
...the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine....~Plotinus