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“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

“If someone is getting in the way of you becoming the person God created you to be or frustrating the work God has called you to do, for you that person is toxic.”
― Lysa TerKeurst, Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are

“We all know that happy, fulfilling, lasting relationships—whether romantic or otherwise—aren’t guaranteed to those who find themselves in ideal-looking bodies. And we know chronic illness, disease, disability, and death do not skip over people who do all the right things and look all the right ways. We know our happiest times don’t always come when we look our “best” and our hardest times don’t always come when we look our “worst.”
― 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