100 quotes found
“Your body is the piece of the universe you've been given; as long as you have a pulse, it presents you with an ongoing shower of immediate sensate experiences.”
“Sometimes the ugliest parts of ourselves are what others love the most.”
“Truth be told, Im still in awe of her, but I found it easier to relate to her. She really made me see that we are all the same. We all suffer the same feelings of inadequacy because we are not like...”
“The best way to reach your destination is to just keep going until you get there.”
“There is no dictionary in the world that includes the words skinny or fat under the definitions of beautiful and ugly. So, focus on being healthy and stop the self-criticism.”
“Im a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts thats not what I think of as sexy.”
“I have a body, but I am not my body.I have a face, but I am not my face.”
“I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that.”
“Eating overeating saved me. It comforted me when I was at the mercy of grown-ups who didn't know how to give what I needed. Food was something to which I had ready access, and with it I cleverly ...”
“I'm sorry I don't conform to your standards of feminine perfection, but I'm quite happy the way I amanyway, I wasn't born to be buxom.”
“What is this food in my head, anyway? Lets see...its green and good for you and so delicious. Its prepared by angels with love. The minute you bite into it, its savory, chewy, nourishing, and whole...”
“Perhaps a past of bingeing, restricting, or purging comes back to haunt you from time to time. Maybe you have to fight hard battles against vanity, gluttony, and shame. But with Gods saving power, ...”
“The good news is that there is one kind of food you can never have too much of. The best way to fully recover from a food addiction or body-image problem is to fill up on the Lord.”
“Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body.”
“I was on a path, and I became determined to give it everything I had no matter what.”
“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. (...”
“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....”
“. . . 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...”
“...compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We li...”
“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 th...”
