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“positive body image isn’t believing your body looks good, it is knowing your body is good, regardless of how it looks.”
― Lexie Kite, More Than A Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament

“Attention regulated by visuality generates low attentiveness, especially when visual objects take a commodity form, that is, exist in abundance, compete with one another, are on view, and become easily interchangeable. ...Visual evaluation in a large market of bodies as images entails devaluation through low attentiveness.”
― Eva Illouz, El fin del amor: Una sociología de las relaciones negativas

“A key to this mental shift is going into exercise activities or fitness regimens with no assumptions about what effect they will have on weight, size, shape, cellulite, or body proportions. It can be difficult to shake the hope that our efforts to be active will shape our bodies in particular ways, but getting your mind off of those body ideal oases will pay off in the future as you pursue reachable, empowering goals instead of mirages.”
― Lexie Kite, More Than A Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament

“As adults, our imagined goals in life often include our goal bodies, and many of us can’t envision our happiest, most fulfilled future selves without also imagining ourselves looking different (“better”) from how we do now.”
― Lexie Kite, More Than A Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament