#den

One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don’t want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize it, own it and hold on! ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#courage #power #rights #self-esteem #strength

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#conceit #pretty #self-confidence #self-image #southern-lit

I'm the Beast. You're the Beauty," he said. "It's all a story, isn't it? ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#timon #timon-and-eden #beauty

Sometimes I still feel that there are two of me: one clean, flawless picture, the other imperfect and cracked; one boy, one girl; one voice that speaks aloud and one that whispers in my ear; one publicly known to have been troubled but be on the mend, the other who has privately lost something to do with innocence and gained something to do with knowledge and adulthood that can never be undone. I feel sometimes there are things that tear me in two directions, that there are two sets of thoughts that grow side by side. But then I realize that I am whole, whatever that means and does not mean; I am complete without the need for additions or alteration. ↗

— Abigail Tarttelin

#beautiful #commercial #fiction #identity #intersex

Very sweetly, he always told her he loved her just the way she was. Although, honestly he had no idea. She shuddered to think what she would really look like if she stopped waxing, plucking, highlighting, manicuring, applying make-up and dressing with care and concentration. ↗

— Carmen Reid

#humour #image #makeup #self-confidence-image #beauty

She was sitting in a garden more beautiful than even her rampaging imagination could ever have conjured up, and she was being serenaded by trees. ↗

— Lynn Kurland

#trees #beauty

There is nothing more attractive than confidence, once she sees her own beauty, everyone else will. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#beauty #confidence #female-beauty #beauty

You'd be surprised what poison is often hidden in the most beautiful camouflage. ↗

— Evelyn Klebert

#camouflage #hidden #poison #surprised #beauty

There is a whole other world with an entirely different version of me, a me that is not pretty, a me that no boys want, a me she would never talk to. ↗

— Amy Reed

#beauty

You need a temple to feel good spiritually? Go to a beautiful garden! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#beauty