“I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, lif…”— Harlan Ellison, amazon.com
“It shouldn’t matter. She knew it shouldn’t matter. But the fact was that some people were so unacceptably, hurtfully beautiful, it made you feel ashamed. Your inferiority was right there on display for the world to see.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.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.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“A woman’s entire self-worth rests on her looks. That’s why. It’s because we live in a beauty-obsessed society where the most important thing a woman can do is make herself attractive to men.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“I mean a fat, ugly man can still be funny and lovable and successful. But it’s like it’s the most shameful thing for a woman to be.”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“I have seen clouds part for the sun. I have seen rainbows. I have seen flowers in the morning, covered in dew, and I have seen sunsets so brilliant with fire they have made me want to weep. And I have seen Dan smile at me, his lips still wet from my kiss, and if I had to choose which sight moved me…”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“I could say his body was perfect and every part of it beautiful, because it was. Not because he had no flaws, but because I wanted him so desperately I couldn't see any.”— Megan Hart, amazon.com
“The beauty of being shattered is how the shards become our character and our marks of distinction.”— Bryant McGill, amazon.com
“I feel that beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity.”— Marilyn Monroe, theguardian.com
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen nor even touched, but just felt in the heart.”— Helen Keller, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.”— Anne Frank, thoughtcatalog.com
“Well, obviously it's great outer beauty. I mean, we could say politically correct that look doesn't matter, but the look obviously matters. Like you wouldn't have your job if you weren't beautiful.”— Donald Trump, youtube.com
“It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not worth bothering with.”— Stephen Fry, books.google.com
“I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I'm dead, and then more afterwards.”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“Find beauty in the unexpected. Most of the magic you'll find sprinkled around you throughout this lifetime won't be part of the plan. The big loves, the long laughs, the starry nights and the truly great moments will never scheduled. Ease up a bit. Release control.”— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com
“A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.”— Stephan Hoeller, mindbodygreen.com