“Believe in your own definition of beauty. Is your definition of beauty fitting back into your skinny jeans or looking like a size 2 model? Or is your definition of beauty strength of character, a passion for changing the world, and the ability to cheer your friends up at a moment’s notice?”— Jenn Hand, huffingtonpost.com
“It is as though beautiful things have been placed here and there throughout the world to serve as small wake-up calls to perception, spurring lapsed alertness back to its most acute level.”— Elaine Scarry, amazon.com
“Her charm was too compelling not to be tasted in secret and too sacred to be openly violated.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Was she really pretty, at twelve? Did he want— would he ever want to caress her, to really caress her? Was she really beautiful? Was she at least what they call attractive? She was exasperation, she was torture.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“Stop being so damn insecure. Seriously. You are not fat. You are beautiful. Your toes and finger nails don't have to match color.”— Aly Walansky, yourtango.com
“And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done -- done, see you!”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com
“People aren't interested or attracted to just 'happy' and 'beautiful.' They're interested in people who are interested in things.”— Brianna Wiest, amazon.com
“She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.”— David Ogden Stiers, Narrator, amazon.com
“Eventually the young woman realizes how often it is in her self-interest to make herself desirable. She learns how to arrange herself to generate a kind of reaction. As children learn behaviors by example, so does she learn sexy from the mirror. Media provides the perfect surface (charmed, shiny, sl…”— Larissa Pham, camgirlproject.tumblr.com
“Like so many things, it is not what's outside, but what is inside that counts.”— Merchant, amazon.com
“She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.”— Narrator, amazon.com
“The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of them all.”— Mulan's Father, amazon.com
“Go outside and find something in nature – a flower, leaf, twig, grass blade, or anything that catches your eye. Is it perfect? Or does it have irregular edges, rough sides and blemishes here and there? Chances are that it is imperfect, yet it is still so amazing and complex. Nature is beautiful desp…”— Jennifer Gruenemay, lifescript.com