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Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the e

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

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Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury. – Martha Beck

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Bracketing has turned all my experiences, remembered and present, into a gallery of miracles where I wander around dazzled by the beauty of events I cannot explain. – Martha Beck

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Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be. – Martha Beck

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The loveliest face in all the world will not please you if you see it suddenly eye to eye, at a distance of half an inch from your own. – Max Beerbohm

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Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. – Marcus V. Pollio

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With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. – John Keats

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I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally Im really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that. – Halle Berry

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