Alessia Cara Quotes

Being proud of who we are as people is more important than cutting into ourselves to create this false idea of beauty.

It's sad that so many people feel they need to alter their image. I think there is something really beautiful about ageing naturally.

'Pretty' is not the amount of makeup on your face or the shirt you're wearing or the size of your pants - that is false.

You don't have to be a size zero to be beautiful.

It's not all about having the perfect body, perfect hair, perfect smile.

I really, truly believe beauty is beyond size.

Beauty, to me is about being comfortable in your own skin.

If I had had plastic surgery, I would have asked for something better than the face you are seeing! I actually really hate plastic surgery when it's just for aesthetics and anti-ageing. I think ageing is beautiful and expressive and characterful.

That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves, I could try and find it in me.

Personally, I don't ever want to depend on makeup to feel beautiful.

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.

Let's just say beauty inspires me. But I like all beauty - I think it really comes from the inside out.

I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture.

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

My parents made the decision never to focus on my looks, and I had no sense of myself as beautiful.

As a woman, I believe you have to embrace your body, and feel beautiful both inside and out.

It took a long while for me to know that I'm beautiful. I remember going through this phase when I was younger of wanting to pass by mirrors and not look at them. That was so ridiculous. I've learned now that beauty starts from within.

Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.

Just because you're not thin does not mean you're ugly. You are beautiful because of the light you carry inside you. You are beautiful because you say you are, and you hold yourself that way.

Part of what I have to represent is an alternative to this perverted fashion industry concept of what beauty is.

You can be whatever size you are, and you can be beautiful both inside and out. We're always told what's beautiful and what's not, and that's not right.

What we all learn is that beauty isn't a size 2. It's not a size 4. It's not a size 12. It's how you feel.

Frankly, the idea that we need to be beautiful, if you really think about it, it's odd. But if you can turn it inward and see yourself as beautiful, that's what changes the world.

The most important thing that I've learnt is that the perfect body doesn't exist.

Acceptance is being able to feel beautiful in whatever you feel comfortable in.