"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."
- Sophia Loren
Belief in Self
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Belief in Self
"Nothing's perfect, the world's not perfect. But it's there for us, trying the best it can; that's what makes it so damn beautiful."
- Hiromu Arakawa
Optimism
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started"
- John Wooden
Motivation
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself"
- Oscar Wilde
Personal Growth
"If you want to fly. Give up everything that weighs you down"
- Buddha
Taking Risks
"I am mine before I am anyone else’s."
- Nayyirah Waheed
Self-awareness
"There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness."
- Maria Mitchell
Happiness
"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself"
- Coco Chanel
Self-confidence
"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."
- Oscar Wilde
Philosophy
"What comes from sorrow, watered by tears, grows something of beauty. A salt garden. And so this I leave behind. A harvest for those who find their way into my life and I into theirs."
- Cindy McCormick
Growth
"Every great dream begins with a dreamer."
- Harriet Tubman
Aspirations
"We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are."
- Max De Pree
Personal Growth
"Kindness is one thing you can't give away. It always comes back"
- George Skolsky
Compassion
"In simple words, ‘Beauty’ is what gladdens the heart. Neither a symmetrical face nor a shapely body—If the sight of you generates happiness, you’re beautiful."
- Adeel Ahmed Khan
Self-esteem
"I want big ideas to have aesthetic relevance. I want to tickle people's intellectual sensibilities and instill a sense of wonder."
- Jason Silva
Inspiration
"So many things become beautiful when you really look"
- Lauren Oliver
Awareness
"To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation."
- George Herbert Meade
Awareness
"Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul"
- Michelangelo
Inspiration
"When you're inside of your home, it should feel like your sanctuary. A haven for comfort, inspiration, safety, and love."
- Robin S. Baker
Well-being
"Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple"
- Dr. Seuss
Philosophy
"What’s past is prologue."
- William Shakespeare
Philosophy
"I have silences buried so deeply, I weep when they blossom."
- Pavana Reddy
Empathy
"I don’t decide to represent anything except myself. But that self is full of collective memory."
- Mahmoud Darwish
Self-awareness
"Most people want beautiful things merely to impress others."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Awareness
"Refinement creates beauty everywhere: it is the grossness of the spectator that discovers nothing but grossness in the object."
- William Hazlitt
Perseverance
"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."
- Alfred North Whitehead
Creativity
"Whatever you do, always give 100%. Unless your donating blood"
- Bill Murray
Motivation
"The line of beauty is the line of beauty. It doesn't matter if it's been through the Xerox machine a hundred times."
- Donna Tart
Philosophy
"Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgment are permanent."
- Roger Scruton
Philosophy
"Rules of taste enforce structures of power."
- Susan Sontag
Philosophy
"I'm sick of having red hair, but people seem to like that aesthetic."
- Rachel Hurd-Wood
Self-awareness