Lauren

“Life is change. If you aren’t growing and evolving you’re standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead. Most of these people are very immature. They lead “still” lives, waiting.’ ‘Waiting for what?’ ‘Waiting for someone to save them. Expecting someone to save them or at least protect them from the big, bad world. The thing is no one else can save them because the problem is theirs and so is the solution. Only they can get out of it.”
― Louise Penny, Still Life

“Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It

“Not just wicked, no, I never even managed to become anything: neither wicked nor good, neither a scoundrel nor an honest man, neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and utterly futile consolation that it is even impossible for an intelligent man seriously to become anything, and only fools become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent man of the nineteenth century must be and is morally obliged to be primarily a characterless being; and a man of character, an active figure – primarily a limited being. This is my forty-year-old conviction. I am now”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“We still believe after all this time that if we hate ourselves enough we’ll end up loving ourselves.”
― Megan Jayne Crabbe, Body Positive Power: Because Life Is Already Happening and You Don't Need Flat Abs to Live It