Sarah Dessen Quotes

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

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.

The ugly duckling is a misunderstood universal myth. It's not about turning into a blonde Barbie doll or becoming what you dream of being; it's about self-revelation, becoming who you are.

What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.

Beauty is about what's inside us, loving who we are and nurturing that. Outward beauty can really blossom from there.

It's common for people to start questioning themselves. As a female, I'm going to offer the advice I gave myself: You look at your strengths, you look at your goals, and accept that you are who you are. Be true to that.

This journey from non-dancer to dancer has given me a lot of self-confidence and inner strength. I feel like a different person.

Journey gave me a magic wand, and it's changed the man that I am. I was able to muster this kind of courage that I never, ever had in my life.

…we’re all beautiful golden sunflowers inside, we’re all blessed by our own seed & golden hairy naked accomplishment (Sunflower Sutra)

She dropped her shyness like a nightgown, and in the liquid glare of sunlight on old boards she held up her hands-as if, in the terror of the upcoming skirmish, she had at last understood that she was beautiful. In her own way.

I have so much more confidence in myself now than I ever did before.

Each woman needs to know herself and think that the clothes are here to make her more beautiful, because the person is more important than the clothes.

Hey! My body may be small, but my soul is large. It’s why I wear platforms. So I can reach the top of my soul.

For me to even be talking about bikini confidence is crazy. If you had asked me a couple of months ago, I probably would have been like, 'what are you talking about...' so it's actually huge for me to even feel okay with putting a bikini on.

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

I wouldn't have thought of myself as a person who could guide anybody and then it turned out that I can.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

When you finally understand who you are, ages 6 through 60 will understand who you are. Because when they see a person that's come through all that I've come through, still standing, it's amazing.

I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.

I want kids to know that it is okay to make a change in order to feel better about themselves.