“True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.”— Ellen Degeneres, amazon.com
“Nothing can be truly replicated. Not a love, not a jewel, not a single line.”— Patti Smith, amazon.com
“It is foolish to wish for beauty. Sensible people never either desire it for themselves or care about it in others. If the mind be but well cultivated, and the heart well disposed, no one ever cares for the exterior.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.com
“Beauty is that quality which, next to money, is generally the most attractive to the worst kinds of men; and, therefore, it is likely to entail a great deal of trouble on the possessor.”— Anne Brontë, amazon.com
“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely’”— Roald Dahl, amazon.com
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”— Frances Hodgson Burnett, amazon.com
“You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at a picture for a second and think of it all your life”— Donna Tartt, amazon.com
“A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.”— John Irving, amazon.com
“Tell her that you love her hair, that you love her skin, her lips, because, in truth, you love them more than you love your own.”— Junot Dìaz, amazon.com
“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know you, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but you for your happiness, you will realize that a little loneliness goes a long way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibran…”— Mandy Hale, amazon.com
“To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.”— Victoria Moran, amazon.com
“You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence.”— David Nicholls, amazon.com
“If you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.”— Jojo Moyes, amazon.com
“That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfeast cereals based on color instead of taste.”— John Green, amazon.com
“Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com