Rainbow Rowell Quotes

We know beauty when we see it, and our reactions are remarkably consistent. Beauty is not just a social construct, and not every girl is beautiful just the way she is.

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from - but it's not me.

Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.

Anyone can look beautiful.

Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue mountain. Some see it in a leg of mutton, others in a compound fracture; and to expect others to accept one's own definition of it is as absurd as to expect all humanity to use the same toilet-brush.

I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.

What's amazing is that the taste of American men and international tastes in terms of beauty have essentially stayed the same. Styles change, but our view of beauty stays the same.

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.

I really like where Tony Robbins says that we're all hypnotized to see beauty this one specific way, and it's true.

I do not consider myself beautiful.

External beauty is a bizarre thing to me.

Different members of different cultures will think that some things are beautiful.

Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whatever it might be, isn't obvious... at least to me.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

There is no such thing as ugly.

From the traditional point of view, I am not handsome.

It does not matter what others think, 'beauty' is just perception.

I woke up one day and I realized I wasn't born beautiful, but my wife was, so I decided to make a horror film about it: what it would be like to be born beautiful.

Look, whenever I hear or read I’m beautiful, I simply don’t understand it … I’m certainly not beautiful in any conventional way. I didn't make my career on beauty.

Beauty is everywhere and it comes in all different forms. Many times I don't find a size zero girl amazing, I find her really shockingly thin or small, and I think that beauty comes in all different forms. Beauty is about how you feel. There are plenty of people who are amazing to look at who are super beautiful, and then there are plenty of people who are easy to look at who are not beautiful at all, they open their mouth or they have an attitude or they are cruel, and they look hideous suddenly.

Now I've heard the phrase 'there's no such thing as an ugly baby' but that is an ugly baby!

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.