“I'm not dying, juts moving to another chapter. I don't have a script; that's the beauty of it.”— Tim Duncan, mysanantonio.com
“It was a terrible thing that happened to me, but so many good things have come out of it that it has turned into a beautiful thing.”— Bethany Hamilton, surfertoday.com
“I'm happy with the way that I look and I don't need an arm to be beautiful.”— Bethany Hamilton, surfertoday.com
“History, like beauty, depends largely on the beholder, so when you read that, for example, David Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls, you might be forgiven for thinking that there was nobody around the Falls until Livingstone arrived on the scene.”— Desmond Tutu, amazon.com
“But in this life she was a light-brown-skinned beauty who wore short skirts and fishnet hose and platform shoes with ankle straps.”— Etta James, amazon.com
“Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.”— Karl Lagerfeld, glamourmagazine.co.uk
“You life has made you beautiful. Your suffering has made you fine.”— Stephen Sondheim, en.wikipedia.org
“No, wait: fat is beautiful. No, wait: thin is beautiful, too, as long as you don’t work for it. No, wait: All women are beautiful! As though we are toddlers who must be given exactly equal shares of princess dust, or we’ll throw a tantrum.”— Kristi Coulter, thoughtcatalog.com
“You are too beautiful for one man alone For one lucky fool to be with When there are other men With eyes of their own to see with”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“And I am a fool for beauty Fooled by a feeling that because I have found you I could have bound you too”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“i don't care about being pretty anymore cuz physical ugliness doesn’t exist. we just assign negative meanings to certain traits and that's what's truly ugly, it’s how cruelly we treat ourselves and the traumas we inflict ourselves chasing illusions and impossible standards. i'm not saying i still wo…”— imanes, imanes.tumblr.com
“You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“Beautiful colors exist, though we do not realize it, and are glimpsed behind the veil that modesty has drawn over them.”— Paul Gaugin, amazon.com
“Now, I’m not going to deny that I was aware of your beauty. But the point is, this has nothing to do with your beauty. As I got to know you, I began to realise that beauty was the least of your qualities. I became fascinated by your goodness. I was drawn in by it. I didn’t understand what was happen…”— Choderlos de Laclos, amazon.com
“She was a ghost of a girl, hauntingly beautiful, wonderfully lost—breaking hearts and crying holy water tears.”— Michael Faudet, amazon.com
“I objectively know that the concept of physical beauty is deeply flawed in many ways, that it revolves around subjective standards and that it doesn’t have any correlation with anyone’s worth as a person. BUT if I could be generally considered beautiful, I wouldn’t turn my back on that opportunity u…”— imanes, imanes.tumblr.com