#fide

How do you know when it's me?" "Your footsteps are apologetic?" "What does that mean?" She turned, smiling wiping her hands on her long, black skirt. "It doesn't mean anything," she said. "Everybody else here just does what they want to do and doesn't think twice about it. But you're never sure. ↗

— Daniel Wallace

#footsteps #personality #sense #sound #attitude

Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear ↗

— Taylor Swift

#happiness #inner-beauty #inspiring #beauty

My confidence was of the hothouse variety, carefully cultivated under highly regulated conditions. One wrong look, one mean comment, and my facade would wither. ↗

— Justina Chen

#ridicule #beauty

One of the most powerful lessons in life is to recognize that no one can give you power, and many people don’t want you to have it. You have to find the courage to seize it, own it and hold on! ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#courage #power #rights #self-esteem #strength

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#conceit #pretty #self-confidence #self-image #southern-lit

Very sweetly, he always told her he loved her just the way she was. Although, honestly he had no idea. She shuddered to think what she would really look like if she stopped waxing, plucking, highlighting, manicuring, applying make-up and dressing with care and concentration. ↗

— Carmen Reid

#humour #image #makeup #self-confidence-image #beauty

There is nothing more attractive than confidence, once she sees her own beauty, everyone else will. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#beauty #confidence #female-beauty #beauty

How she wished she had Elizabeth to herself for a little so they could discuss what Henry's real intentions were and also how high and mighty Penelope had acted at lunch and what a tremendous insult it was that she'd come at all and did anyone really think she was beautiful with those oversize features anyway. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#gossip #beauty

When you are truly stunning, gorgeous and beautiful, you won’t have to prove that to anyone visually. ↗

— Alexandra Elle

#confidence #self-love #beauty

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#humor #self-importance #significance #sophistication #beauty