“Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.”— Albert Einstein, einstein-website.de
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”— Henry Rollins, goodreads.com
“white women get so hurt when non white women talk about european standards of beauty and realize that white women aren’t the epitome of beauty and then they go ‘wow so much for women supporting women’ like why should i support standards that made me feel ugly for the majority of my life? why should…”— medusabraids, medusabraids.tumblr.com
“Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.”— Alan Cohen, amazon.com
“I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”— Rumi, amazon.com
“I know the girls in adverts are airbrushed. I know beauty is on the inside. But I still feel like I’m not good enough.”— Laura Bates, amazon.com
“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.”— Alain de Botton, amazon.com
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”— Thich Nhat Hanh, goodreads.com
“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you’re not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.”— Carl Sagan, amazon.com
“I guess that’s the beauty of books. When they finish they don’t really finish.”— Markus Zusak, goodreads.com
“I’ve been taught that love is beautiful and kind, but it isn’t like that at all. It is beautiful, but it’s a terrible beauty, a ruthless one, and you fall-you fall, and the thing is – The thing is you want to. You don’t care what’s coming you just want who your heart beats for.”— Elizabeth Scott, amazon.com