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#1

“Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.”
― Marc Riboud

tags: beauty, life, photo, photograph, photography, photos, picture, pictures

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#2

“There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.”
― Abraham Lincoln

tags: beauty, photography, portraits

1495 likes

#3

“I have an important message to deliver to all the cute people all over the world. If you're out there and you're cute, maybe you're beautiful. I just want to tell you somethin' — there's more of us UGLY MOTHERFUCKERS than you are, hey-y, so watch out.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: beauty, ugly

263 likes

#4

“I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.”
― Ani DiFranco

tags: beauty

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#5

“Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.”
― John Steinbeck

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#6

“To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

tags: adolescence, beauty, girls, prettiness

260 likes

#7

“I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.”
― Tana French, Faithful Place

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#8

“Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: beautiful, beauty, belief, belief-quotes, destiny, happiness, inspirational, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, life, life-and-living, life-experience, living, spirit, truth

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#9

“And when she started becoming a “young lady,” and no one was allowed to look at her because she thought she was fat. And how she really wasn’t fat. And how she was actually very pretty. And how different her face looked when she realized boys thought she was pretty. And how different her face looked the first time she really liked a boy who was not on a poster on her wall. And how her face looked when she realized she was in love with that boy. I wondered how her face would look when she came out from behind those doors.”
― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower

tags: adolescence, beauty

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#10

“A woman's dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.”
― Sophia Loren

tags: beauty, dress, fashion, flirting, simile, woman, women

198 likes

#11

“When in doubt, be ridiculous.”
― Sherwood Smith, Firebirds: An Anthology of Original Fantasy and Science Fiction

tags: beauty, decision, fast-thinking, uncertainty

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#12

“There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle.”
― George Eliot, Adam Bede

tags: beauty

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#13

“She is a peacock in everything but beauty!”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: beauty

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#14

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”
― Marilyn Monroe

tags: inspirational, misattributed, self-acceptance, self-esteem

2708 likes

#15

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
― Mark Twain

tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem

2361 likes

#16

“In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.

But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Complete Poems of Dorothy Parker

tags: adaptation, change, character, empowerment, love, men, nature, pleasing, self-discovery, self-esteem, self-respect, truthfulness, wisdom, women, youth

2173 likes

#17

“I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

tags: self-esteem, self-image

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#18

“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell

tags: faults, self-esteem

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#19

“I never loved another person the way I loved myself.”
― Mae West

tags: innuendo, inspirational, naughty, self-esteem

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#20

“I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't.”
― Marilyn Vos Savant

tags: flattery, love, self-esteem

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#21

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays

tags: ataraxy, independence, individuality, inspirational, self-assurance, self-awareness, self-containment, self-determination, self-esteem, self-reliance, self-respect, self-sufficiency, self-trust, solitude

1756 likes

#22

“As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant.”
― Nic Sheff

tags: ataraxy, self-confidence, self-esteem, self-worth

667 likes

#23

“Dare to love yourself
as if you were a rainbow
with gold at both ends.”
― Author-Poet Aberjhani, Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

tags: angel-poems, classic-books, classic-quotes, creative-vision, famous-quotes, gold, grace, haiku, haikus, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspiring-authors, inspiring-words, joy, love, national-poetry-month, personal-growth, poem-in-your-pocket-day, poetry, positive-motivation, psychotherapy, rainbow, rainbows, self-esteem, self-love, self-motivation, self-respect, spirituality

1105 likes

#24

“I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.”
― Rachel Machacek, The Science of Single: One Woman's Grand Experiment in Modern Dating, Creating Chemistry, and Finding Love

tags: confidence, dating, friends, relationships, self-esteem

257 likes

#25

“You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care about and really want to protect. Would you let someone take advantage of that person? Would you let someone use that person you really care about? Or would you speak up for them? If it was someone else you care about, you'd say something. I know you would. Okay, now put yourself back in that body. That person is you. Stand up and tell 'em, "Enough!”
― Queen Latifah, Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom

tags: power, self-esteem, strength

219 likes

#26

“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
― Robert Hand

tags: confidence, self, self-esteem, show-off

345 likes

#27

“We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

tags: inspirational, self-esteem

149 likes

#28

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
― C.G. Jung

tags: self-acceptance, self-esteem, self-love

1440 likes

#29

“Sadly, the signals that allow men and women to find the partners who most please them are scrambled by the sexual insecurity initiated by beauty thinking. A woman who is self-conscious can't relax to let her sensuality come into play. If she is hungry she will be tense. If she is "done up" she will be on the alert for her reflection in his eyes. If she is ashamed of her body, its movement will be stilled. If she does not feel entitled to claim attention, she will not demand that airspace to shine in. If his field of vision has been boxed in by "beauty"--a box continually shrinking--he simply will not see her, his real love, standing right before him.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

tags: advertising, beauty, body-image, cosmetic-surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet-industry, double-standards, equality, feminism, images, magazines, marketing, mass-culture, objectification, plastic-surgery, self-esteem, sexuality, society

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#30

“Men are visually aroused by women's bodies and less sensitive to their arousal by women's personalities because they are trained early into that response, while women are less visually aroused and more emotionally aroused because that is their training. This asymmetry in sexual education maintains men's power in the myth: They look at women's bodies, evaluate, move on; their own bodies are not looked at, evaluated, and taken or passed over. But there is no "rock called gender" responsible for that; it can change so that real mutuality--an equal gaze, equal vulnerability, equal desire--brings heterosexual men and women together.”
― Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

tags: advertising, aging, beauty, body-image, cosmetic-surgery, cosmetics, culture, diet-industry, double-standards, eating-disorders, equality, fashion-industry, feminism, images, magazines, marketing, mass-culture, objectification, plastic-surgery, pornography, self-esteem, sexuality, society

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