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she felt as though they wanted to sever her head from her body, to discard the meat of her and leave the small round disk of her face as her one saving quality.
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.”
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“The human body is the best work of art.”
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“Body acceptance means, as much as possible, approving of and loving your body, despite its “imperfections”, real or perceived. That means accepting that your body is fatter than some others, or thinner than some others, that your eyes are a little crooked, that you have a disability that makes walking difficult, that you have health concerns that you have to deal with — but that all of that doesn’t mean that you need to be ashamed of your body or try to change it. Body acceptance allows for the fact that there is a diversity of bodies in the world, and that there’s no wrong way to have one.”
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“The average personality re-shapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul-desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change.”
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
― Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
“Remember to breathe. It is after all, the secret of life.”
― A Lion Among Men
― A Lion Among Men
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