"She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something." - Rainbow Rowell

"She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"In a way, you are poetry material. You are full of cloudy subleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality." - Franz Kafka

"I'm not ashamed to dress 'like a woman' because I don't think it's shameful to be a woman." - Iggy Pop

"Just because you don't look like somebody you think is attractive, doesn't mean you aren't attractive. Flowers are pretty but so are christmas lights, and they look nothing alike."

"The first step in the development of taste is to be willing to credit your own opinion." - Alana Bloom

"Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside." - Coco Chanel

"If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies, how very different our ideals of beauty would be."

"You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body." - C. S. Lewis

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being." - John Joseph Powell

"Nicht die Schönheit entscheidet, wen wir lieben. Sondern die Liebe, wen wir schön finden."

"We were young and beautiful. Now we are just beautiful."

"Ich bin nicht klein, sondern nur auf das Beste reduziert."

"Man sollte weniger Wert auf sein Gewicht legen, dafür mehr Gewicht auf seinen Wert."

"I don't feel that I need to explain my art to you."

"I've never believed that beauty could exist in selfdestruction. Then I saw you. And your eyes told stories with dangerous beginnings and lost endings, where every page was breathing with color. Yes, you were beautiful to me." - Nicole Torres

"In Japan, broken objects are often repaired with gold. The flaw is seen as a unique piece of the object's history, which adds to its beauty. Consider this when you feel broken."