Lauryn Hill Quotes

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.

We many times sell ourselves short, not only in relationships but throughout our own lives. Hopefully, we come around at some point and realize our own value.

I used to hate getting dressed, getting in front of the camera and walking down the red carpet. It bothered me because I felt like I couldn't be what they wanted me to be. Now it's still not my favorite thing, but I get through it a lot easier because I know that my work brings value to who I am.

I do not know at what moment in life, if ever, we realise that we are neither George Sands nor Juliets. Of course, if we are not beautiful, we recognise early that beauty is nothing.

I don't want to come across as a pretty looking girl. Because it is very easy - wear good clothes, wear good make-up, and you'll look good. I know my abilities.

There is a beauty and a special quality in being what I am. I know it, and I've learned how to use it.

If you realized how beautiful you are, you would fall at your own feet.

How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin - that's what really makes you beautiful.

Being an actress hasn't made me insecure. I was insecure long before I declared I was an actress.

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

I've never met anyone that is their image.

I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Loving oneself isn't hard, when you understand who and what 'yourself' is. It has nothing to do with the shape of your face, the size of your eyes, the length of your hair or the quality of your clothes. It's so beyond all of those things and it's what gives life to everything about you. Your own self is such a treasure.

I'm not that beautiful, and I don't want to be a pop star.

I mean, no one asks beauty secrets of me, or 'What size do you wear?' or 'Who's your couturier?' They ask me about really deep things and I love that.

I was so beautiful but I didn't realise it for years. I saw pictures of myself and even I was stunned.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

My success is not who I am.

I don't think I was born beautiful. I just think I was born me.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

I am the way I am. If you like me because I'm glamorous, so be it. If you like me, because I speak well or I have a brain and opinion, so be it.

If I can't be me and be accepted and loved for that, then what's the point?

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.