Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques dont match our own beliefs about how we should look. – Martha Beck
My own nature hovers between neurotic and paranoid. Ive developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. I do it every day. – Martha Beck
You have the freedom to live and let live, to love and let love. Granting yourself that freedom is one of the healthiest, most constructive things you can do for yourself and the people who matter to you. – Martha Beck
We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. – Martha Beck
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only believes in his own beauty out of pride that he is not really beautiful and he suspects this himself for why does he look on the face of his fellow-man with such scorn? – Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont