Dorothy Allison Quotes

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

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.

I want to look beautiful.

I'm certainly not in the business of making anything or anyone seem avant-garde. I make them feel beautiful.

When someone loves you, and when you make someone happy, you suddenly start to feel the most beautiful person in the world.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it.

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

Look at yourself in the mirror and don't be afraid to notice how beautiful you are.

While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.

Pretty is a self-serving situation in which it's all about you. People who are pretty are superficial, but they are not beautiful. Beauty requires more depth.

If you're beautiful you don't need clothes. If you're ugly like me, you're like a house with no foundations; you need something to build you up.

Elegance is when the inside is as beautiful as the outside.

When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision.

I looked at you... and saw your goodness, your hope, and your faith. Those are what make you beautiful. So, so beautiful. So it was't my hair?

Sometimes it seems like we're all living in some kind of prison, and the crime is how much we all hate ourselves. It's good to get really dressed up once in a while and admit the truth - that when you really look closely, people are so strange and so complicated that they're actually beautiful. Possibly even me.

To love someone is not first of all to do things for them,but to reveal to them their beauty and value, to say to them through our attitude: 'You are beautiful. You are important. I trust you. You can trust yourself.'

Look in the mirror and see who you are. Beautiful, you are.

That's how powerful you are, girl...You pretty, but pretty alone is not what people see. You the kinda pretty, the kinda beauty, that's like a mirror. Men and women see themselves in you, only now they so beautiful that they can't bear to see you go.

I've spent so much time feeling ugly and being treated as ugly as a result. But I changed my attitude and said, “I’m beautiful because I love everybody as much as I can. I’m beautiful because I have wonderful friends. And I’m beautiful because I say I am. I’ve earned it, and I’m gonna be it.

To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they're blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.

People are always beautiful when you love them.

If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.

It may sound cliché, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside.

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.