Excerpt: Beauty is about a lot more than the aesthetics of a face. Read our 21 Inner Beauty quotes and spend some time thinking about the beauty that comes from within.
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Introduction: How To Always Look Lovely
“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
You know what’s better than having a beautiful face? Having a beautiful soul. And you know what’s beautiful about that? You can control the beauty of your soul… It all starts with your thoughts.
Think about the most beautiful soul you know in your life. What makes them such a beautiful soul? Is it the alignment of their nose? The symmetry of their mouth? The aesthetics of their chin or their perfectly straight teeth? We’re guessing it’s about much more than that…
The most beautiful soul in your life is probably a person who is compassionate, giving, warm, and honest. And while they may have plenty of reasons to hate the world and the people in it, they don’t. They, instead are filled with love. And they radiate outwards with love touching all who they come into contact with. And they always look lovely.
And if you want to be that person then never let anyone dull your light. Take control of your mind and pay close attention to the thoughts that you’re surrounding yourself with and nurturing in your mind. Starve the negative, hateful, belittling thoughts and feed the positive, loving, empowering ones.
It’s so easy to compare your outward appearance to everybody else’s highlight reels and to nurture negative thoughts. Don’t. Screen everything that’s coming into your mind through your senses and pay close attention to the environments you’re thinking in. It will have a pivotal effect on your mind.
Below, you will find our list of 21 Inner Beauty Quotes that will remind you what’s REALLY attractive in life. Your challenge after reading this list is simple: Unfollow anyone who brings you down and follow people who nurture your light. This is as true in the social media world as it is in the real world! Focus on the beauty of your soul, not the aesthetics of your appearance and you too, will always look lovely. Enjoy and good luck :)
The List: 21 Stunning Inner Beauty Quotes
“If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies, how very different our ideas of beauty would be.”
Unknown
“You’re absolutely gorgeous. And that’s the least interesting thing about you.”
Unknown
“We get so worried about being ‘pretty.’ Let’s be pretty kind; pretty funny; pretty smart; pretty strong.”
Unknown
“You know what’s really, powerfully sexy? A sense of humor. A taste for adventure. A healthy glow. Openness. Confidence. Humility. Appetite. Intuition. Smart-ass comebacks. Presence.”
Courtney E. Martin
“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for that 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.”
Unknown
“People that make you laugh are more beautiful than beautiful people.”
Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
“People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I don’t find myself saying, ‘Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.’ I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.”
Carl Rogers
“I want to apologize to all the women I have called pretty before I’ve called them intelligent or brave. I am sorry I made it sound as though something as simple as what you’re born with is the most you have to be proud of when your spirit has crushed mountains. From now on I will say things like, ‘You are resilient’ or ‘You are extraordinary.’ Not because I don’t think you’re pretty, but because you are so much more than that.”
Rupi Kaur
“The greatest beauty tip: For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his / her hands through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone. People, more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed, never throw out anyone.”
Audrey Hepburn
“You are what you believe you are. There is nothing to do except to be just what you are. You have the right to feel beautiful and enjoy it. You can honor your body and accept it as it is. You don’t need anyone to love you. Love comes from the inside. It lives inside us and is always there, but with that wall of fog, we don’t feel it. You can only perceive the beauty that lives outside you when you feel the beauty that lives inside you.”
Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love
“You have more to do than be weighed down by pretty or beautiful. You are a fiery heart and a wicked brain. Do not let your soul be defined by its shell.”
Unknown
“Beauty is not long hair, skinny legs, tanned skin or perfect teeth. Believe me. Beauty is the face of who cried and now smiles, beauty is the scar on your knee since you fell when you were a kid, beauty is the circles when love doesn’t let you sleep, beauty is the expression on the face when the alarm rings in the morning, it’s the melted makeup when you have a shower, it’s the laughter when you make a joke you’re the only one who can understand, beauty is meeting his gaze and stopping understanding, beauty is your gaze when you see him, it’s when you cry for all you paranoias, beauty is the lines marked by time. Beauty is what we feel in the inside which also shows outside us. Beauty is the marks the life leaves on us, all the kicks and the caresses the memories leave us. Beauty is letting yourself live.”
Emma Watson
“The sign of a beautiful person is that they always see beauty in others.”
Unknown
“People aren’t as beautiful as they look, as they walk, or as they talk. They are only as beautiful as they love, as they care and as they share.”
Unknown
“People always ask me, ‘You have so much confidence. Where did that come from?’ It came from me. One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl… it doesn’t have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see. Your body is your temple, it’s your home, and you must decorate it.”
Gabourey Sidibe
“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
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Beauty shouldn’t be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It’s about knowing that someone else’s definition of pretty has no hold over you.”
Golda Poretsky
“People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.”
Salma Hayek
“We say don’t judge a book by its cover, but quickly make opinions about someone on the basis of their appearance. Our society is obsessed with looks. But we shouldn’t forget that, if the heart or soul is hollow, no amount of good looks are going to make someone beautiful. Rather than judging people on their physical appearance, it’s important to understand their inner beauty.”
Unknown
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