Quote by Martha Beck
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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My point is that perceptual bias can affect nut jobs and scientists alike. If we hold too rigidly to what we think we know, we ignore or avoid evidence of anything that might change our mind. – Martha Beck

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We virtually never feel our age, but thinking that we should can lead to disaster. – Martha Beck

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Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld. – Martha Beck

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Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see. – George William Russell

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With guys I revere, like Marcus Garvey or Malcolm X, their look is less about style than purpose and the expression of beauty. It wasnt just about being noticed, you know? – Mos Def

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The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness. – Virginia Woolf

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The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. – Clifford Geertz

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You may keep your beauty and your health, unless you destroy them yourself, or discourage them to stay with you, by using them ill. – William Temple

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Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time. Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law. – Buddha

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I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the suns energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. – George Porter

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