happy birthday audrey

Today would have been Audrey Hepburn's 85th birthday and Google is celebrating her with today's Google doodle.

She's perhaps best remembered for starring in one of my favorite movies, Breakfast at Tiffany's.

But later in her life, helping children became her passion. So on her birthday, let's remember one of her favorite poems, written by Sam Levenson, which she is said to have read to her children on her last Christmas Eve before she died in early 1993.

Time Tested Beauty Tips

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.

For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; Never throw out anybody.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows, and the beauty of a woman with passing years only grows.