Your body hears everything your mind says. ~ Naomi Judd
To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to see yourself is to have found yourself, for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are. ~ Anne Lamott
As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, “I love my body“. Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, “I am so proud of my body.” So I make sure to say it to Mia [her daughter], because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age. ~ Kate Winslet
Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have…undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It’s because he doesn’t care! He’s in a room with a naked girl, he just won the lottery. I am so tired of saying no, waking up in the morning and recalling every single thing I ate the day before, counting every calorie I consumed so I know just how much self loathing to take into the shower. I’m going for it. I have no interest in being obese, I’m just through with the guilt. So this is what I’m going to do, I’m going to finish this pizza, and then we are going to go watch the soccer game, and tomorrow we are going to go on a little date and buy ourselves some bigger jeans. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Real beauty isn’t about symmetry or weight or makeup; it’s about looking life right in the face and seeing all its magnificence reflected in your own. ~ Valerie Monroe
When we’re awake in our bodies and sense, the world comes alive. Wisdom, creativity, and love are discovered as we relax and awaken through our bodies. ~ Tara Brach
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. ~ Bobbi Brown
When you’re always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness. ~ Dale Archer
Each individual woman’s body demands to be accepted on its own terms. ~ Gloria Steinem
Beauty once seemed to me to be an accident of nature… But now that I can see my life on my face, I realize we earn the way we end up looking. Time, it seems, gives us all a chance to really be beautiful. ~ Ann Curry
Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn’t like, but I’ve stopped complaining about mine because I don’t want to critique nature’s handiwork… My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece. ~ Alfre Woodard
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live. ~ Jim Rohn
When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe that you need to hide that damage for anyone to love you. You walk around ashamed of being yourself. You try hard to make up for the way you look, walk, feel. Decisions are agonizing because if you, the person who makes the decision, is damaged, then how can you trust what you decide? You doubt your own impulses so you become masterful at looking outside yourself for comfort. You become an expert at finding experts and programs, at striving and trying hard and then harder to change yourself, but this process only reaffirms what you already believe about yourself — that your needs and choices cannot be trusted, and left to your own devices you are out of control. ~ Geneen Roth, Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
The human body is the best work of art. ~ Jess C. Scott
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won’t discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself. ~ Geneen Roth, Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. ~ Simone de Beauvoir
A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. ~ Naomi Wolf
. . . hell is wanting to be somewhere different from where you are. Being one place and wanting to be somewhere else . . . . Wanting life to be different from what it is. That’s also called leaving without leaving. Dying before you die. It’s as if there is a part of you that so rails against being shattered by love that you shatter yourself first. ~ Geneen Roth, Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it’s about knowing who you are. It’s about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can’t have it. ~ Geneen Roth, Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
It’s never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels. We don’t want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves. ~ Geneen Roth, Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful! ~ Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
Beauty shouldn’t be about changing yourself to achieve an ideal or be more socially acceptable. Real beauty, the interesting, truly pleasing kind, is about honoring the beauty within you and without you. It’s about knowing that someone else’s definition of pretty has no hold over you. ~ Golda Poretsky
You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful. ~ Amy Bloom
Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable and you need to be fixed. ~ Kim Brittingham, Read My Hips: How I Learned to Love My Body, Ditch Dieting, and Live Large
Healthy emotions come in all sizes. Healthy minds come in all sizes. And healthy bodies come in all sizes. ~ Cheri K. Erdman
Eating is not a crime. It’s not a moral issue. It’s normal. It’s enjoyable. It just is. ~ Carrie Arnold
Girls of all kinds can be beautiful – from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned; the quirky, clumsy, shy, outgoing and all in between. It’s not easy though because many people still put beauty into a confining, narrow box…Think outside of the box…Pledge that you will look in the mirror and find the unique beauty in you. ~ Tyra Banks
God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I’m not going to complain about the way my body is shaped. ~ Drew Barrymore
I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it’s important to embrace it and get down! The female body is something that’s so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not diss other women for being proud of theirs! ~ Christina Aguilera
I have a crumble baby belly, boobs are worse for wear after two kids…I’m doing all right. I’m 33. I don’t look in the mirror and go, “Oh, I look fantastic!”. Of course I don’t. Nobody is perfect. I just don’t believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, “This is who I am and look at me not being perfect!”. I’m proud of that. ~ Kate Winslet
I guess my mom raised me right. She was very celebratory of her body. I never heard her once say “I feel fat”. Back when I was modeling, the first time I went to Italy, I was having cappuccinos every day, and I gained 15 pounds. And I felt gorgeous! I would take my clothes off in front of the mirror and be like “Oh, I look like a woman”. And I felt beautiful, and I never tried to lose it, because I loved it. ~ Christina Hendricks
How much time have I wasted on diets and what I look like? Take your time and your talent and figure out what you have to contribute to this world. And get over what the hell your butt looks like in those jeans! ~ America Ferreira
To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini – put it on and stay strong. ~ Jennifer Love Hewitt
I’m never going to starve myself for a part. I don’t want little girls to be like, “Oh, I want to look like Katniss” (her character in The Hunger Games), so I’m going to skip dinner. That’s something I was really conscious of during training, when you’re trying to get your body to look exactly right. I was trying to get my body to look fit and strong, not thin and underfed. ~ Jennifer Lawrence
I wrote “Bootylicious” because, at the time, I’d gained some weight and the pressure that people put you under, the pressure to be thin, is unbelievable. I was just 18 and you shouldn’t be thinking about that.You should be thinking about building up your character and having fun, and the song was just telling everyone to forget what people are saying, you’re bootylicious. That’s all. It’s a celebration of curves and a celebration of women’s bodies. ~ Beyonce
I accept my body. I accept how I am and make the best of what I am given. ~ Kate Winslet
Fashion is killing women’s body image of themselves. ~ Zac Posen
What is this drive to be thinner, prettier, better dressed, other? Who exactly is this other and what does she look like beyond the jacket she’s wearing or the food she’s not eating? What might we be doing, thinking, feeling about if we didn’t think about body image, ever? ~ Caroline Knapp
It’s hard being a girl. There are a lot of body image issues that come up and I think the best thing we can do for our kids is lead by example. ~ Cheryl Hines
Weight loss is not the key to your dreams. The truth is there is no lock and the door is flimsy. ~ Golda Poretsky
Our bodies were printed as blank pages
to be filled with the ink of our hearts.
~ Michael Biondi
Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one. ~ Naomi Wolf
The quest for body-beauty is therefore not a choice for the Western woman and the concept that she is free to choose her own image is a myth. It has not built confidence and self-esteem in the woman but rather produced a mentality of insecurity and obsession with her appearance. ~ Shabaat of Hizb ut-Tahrir
I have a body,
but I am not my body.
I have a face,
but I am not my face.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
You are a human being, not a human body. ~ Kate Wicker
I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that. ~ Lauren Bacall
I’m not going to miss 95% of life to weigh 5% less. ~ Dan Pearce
The scale can only tell you what you weigh; not who you are. ~ Steve Maraboli
Don’t change your body to get respect from society. Instead let’s change society to respect our bodies. ~ Golda Poretsky
The key to feeling better isn’t looking better. It is feeling better about our lives and better understanding what our bodies really are – vehicles in which we can experience life. Our bodies are not life itself; they are objects of motion, not admiration. ~ Rosie Molinary
Ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering, there’s a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in. ~ Leonard Cohen
Self-criticism is not “love,” and it is certainly not indifferent. It’s a form of hatred. And when I name that, when I see it for what it is (raw and uncomfortable and saddening), when I refuse to sugar-coat self criticism, judgment, agitation, and constantly trying to improve myself, then I’m one quantum leap closer to freedom. ~ DanielleLaPorte
As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I’ve made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that’s dangerously unhealthy. I’m excited about the ageing process. I’m more interested in women who aren’t perfect. They’re more compelling. ~ Emma Watson
The language of fat is a cultural language we speak. I can meet any woman anywhere and we can bond about the size of our thighs before I ever know her name. ~ Jessica Weiner
Make choices that are loving for yourself – with your diet, your relationships, and in speaking your loving truth – that are in alignment with what you want to be doing. When you see that in a person, you are seeing their passion and fulfillment, and that person feels good to you because they feel good to themselves. I know that I feel good and I think that comes across on stage; when I didn’t feel good before, I think that came across on stage. ~ India Arie
Kill your scale. It’s ridiculous to measure your worth based on a number in a little box that you get on in the morning. It’s absolutely ridiculous. It has nothing to do with your worthiness. Nobody needs a reality TV show to be a healthy human being. And love yourself no matter what you weigh. If somebody comes up to you and tells you you’re fat or if somebody comes up to you and tells you your beautiful — that has absolutely nothing to do with who you are and everything to do with who they are. And remember that. ~ Kai Hibbard
Your body loves you. Your body works hard to keep you alive. ~ Lisa Consiglio Ryan
Left to my own devices, would I trade this for firm thighs, fewer wrinkles, a better memory? On some days. That’s why it’s such a blessing I’m not left to my own devices. Because the truth is I have amazing friends and a deep faith in God, to whom I can turn. I have a cool kid, a sweet boyfriend, darling pets. I’ve learned to pay attention to life, and to listen. I’d give up all this for a flatter belly? Are you crazy? ~ Anne Lamott
The human body is the best work of art. ~ Jess C. Scott
She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay. ~ H. Raven Rose, Shadow Selves
Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness. ~ Deborah Day
Live your life and forget your age. ~ Norman Vincent Peale
In your own life it’s important to know how spectacular you are. ~ Steve Maraboli
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. ~ C.G. Jung
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg
The time will come
When, with elation,
You will greet yourself arriving
At your own door, in your own mirror,
And will smile at the other’s welcome. ~ Derek Walcott
Just because you’re not on Weight Watchers doesn’t mean you’re not dieting. “Dieting” is a state of mind. It’s the way you relate to eating, largely as something you are allowed or not allowed to do. ~ Isabel Foxen Duke
To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are. ~ Sven Goran Eriksson
Eating is an issue of self-care, not moral correctness. ~ Unknown
True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass. ~ Ellen DeGeneres
Women are always being told to change or be different — lose weight, fight aging, smooth your skin, get rid of cellulite, I mean really, women are such amazing and dynamic creatures can we please change the conversation from this bullsh*t to something with a little more substance? ~ Taryn Brumfitt
It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now…with its aches and its pleasures…is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive. ~ Pema Chodron
Within my body are all the sacred places of the world, and the most profound pilgrimage I can ever make is within my own body. ~ Saraha
Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. ~ Astrid Alauda
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself. ~ Oprah Winfrey
If any thing is sacred the human body is sacred. ~ Walt Whitman
The body must be nourished, physically, emotionally and spiritually. We’re spiritually starved in this culture-not underfed but undernourished. ~ Carol Hornig
The message we give our bodies — one of irritation or acceptance — is the message to which our bodies will answer. ~ Deb Shapiro
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies. ~ Friedrich Nietzche
There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it. ~ Elizabeth A. Behnke
People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing you are the beholder. ~ Salma Hayek
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. ~ Francis Bacon
I’m pretty comfortable with my body. I’m imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view you only live once. ~ Kate Hudson
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now. ~ Alan Cohen
I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy. ~ Queen Latifah
Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images. ~ Cheri K. Erdman
You are whole already, perfect the way you are. Your whole being is so much more complex, so much more fragile, so much more subtle and intelligent than a few days of dieting or a page of notes can portray. Reducing your self-worth to the weight you’ve gained during the holidays or the goals you haven’t achieved in a year is ridiculous and lethal. ~ Anne-Sophie Reinhardt
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