Vanessa Diffenbaugh Quotes

Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers.

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.

But maybe if we are surrounded in beauty Someday we will become what we see

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

I do love the evolution of people in general. I think it's a beautiful thing when someone progresses and evolves in life.

There is no place in a city that can't be better. There is no toad that can't be a princess, no frog that can't become a prince.

Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.

Free the child's potential, and you will transform him into the world.

We must develop the capacity to see men not as they are at present but as they may become.

As you grow and get older, you evolve.

I think that one morning, the Papess woke in her tower, and her blankets were so warm, and the sun was so golden, she could not bear it. I think she woke, and dressed, and washed her face in cold water, and rubbed her shaven head. I think she walked among her sisters, and for the first time saw that they were so beautiful, and she loved them. I think she woke up one morning of all her mornings, and found that her heart was as white as a silkworm, and the sun was clear as glass on her brow, and she believed then that she could live, and hold peace in her hand like a pearl.

Change is not always growth, but growth is often rooted in change. Drizzt Do'Urden

I'm passionate about transformation.

You never know how much you can grow.

It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.

I tried to be a better person for her– but it was to impress her, to get her to want me. But when I’m around you, I want to be better because… well, because it feels right. Because I want to. You make me want to become something greater than myself. I want to excel. You inspire me in every act, every word, every glance. I look at you, and you’re like… like light made into flesh. […] You have no clue how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.

Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.

I feel like I'm on the precipice - just seeing a better version of me coming out.

We can have more than we've got because we can become more than we are.

The girls who were unanimously considered beautiful often rested on their beauty alone. I felt I had to do things, to be intelligent and develop a personality in order to be seen as attractive. By the time I realized maybe I wasn't plain and might even possibly be pretty, I had already trained myself to be a little more interesting and informed.

We are all capable of change and growth; we just need to know where to begin.

It's always beautiful to see people striving to grow.

The greatest of all miracles is that we need not be tomorrow what we are today. The greatest of all insights is that we cannot be tomorrow what we do not do today. That is why today matters.

I want to help you grow as beautiful as God meant you to be when he thought of you first.

Love has made me a different person. It has made the world beautiful.