“Sometimes things make more sense the second time around. People change, you change and the universe changes, if we keep ourselves confined to first chances only, we will truly miss out on some of the most beautiful things in life.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Everyone wanted to be rich and beautiful, but the truly rich and beautiful had to pretend they were just the same as everyone else. Oh, it was a funny world.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“Don’t ever forget you are beautiful, although your life, your past and your present situation may be ugly. You are beautiful.”— Ricky Maye, amazon.com
“She knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.”— Margaret Mitchell, amazon.com
“You don’t have to look or feel your best to have great sex because even when you’re wearing old sweats, sick with a cold, or droopy-eyed following a long day at work, your partner manages to make you feel attractive.”— Mélanie Berliet, thoughtcatalog.com
“You are beautiful without another person’s validation of your beauty. You are strong without having to demonstrate your strength to anyone. You are enough without someone by your side to prove your worth.”— Liane White, thoughtcatalog.com
“Believe that you are beautiful, talented and gorgeous, because YOU ARE!”— Stephanie Russel, thoughtcatalog.com
“Physical beauty only takes a woman so far, it is her spirit that a man becomes addicted to.”— Kristina Zias, thoughtcatalog.com
“Our language needs endless synonyms for beautiful; the eyes could see what the tongue cannot possibly describe.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“So, yes, I am the Beast. My story is one of someone who falls decidedly outside the lines of society’s definition of beautiful, but is nonetheless just like everyone else in the end – someone who’s waiting for someone to see what lies beneath this outer shell. Don’t we all just want to meet our Bell…”— Melissa Blake, sheknows.com
“Today you will meet a beautiful stranger. Actually hundreds of beautiful strangers. Everyone is beautiful and you know almost none of them.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“Beautiful women are always drawn to men they think will keep them beautiful.”— Mark Z. Danielewski, amazon.com
“There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.”— Mindy Kaling, amazon.com
“What would it mean if we didn’t run from our own ugliness or each other’s? How do we take the sting out of ‘ugly?’ What would it mean to acknowledge our ugliness for all it has given us, how it has shaped our brilliance and taught us about how we never want to make anyone else feel? What would it ta…”— Mia Mingus, leavingevidence.wordpress.com
“There are images that strike the heart and set it blooming like a flower, images that open up some much, much larger beauty that you can spend your whole life looking for and never find.”— Donna Tartt, Theodore Decker, amazon.com
“A strong woman will always be a work in progress, full of surprises, full of power, full of beauty and full of love.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“You don’t need him to feel beautiful. You don’t need him for self-validation. You don’t need him in order to grow.”— Katreena Dei Gauiran, thoughtcatalog.com
“If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember.”— Terry Pratchett, amazon.com