Appreciating and loving your body starts with accepting yourself exactly as you are. Whether you’re dark or light-skinned, slim, tall, short, fat, or thin – your body is unique and naturally gifted. Instead of worrying about your shape, size, or appearance, focus on embracing and accepting it all. Don’t criticize yourself or get caught up in trying to meet unrealistic beauty standards. Be positive and love yourself, just as you are.
Your body is your home, your companion for life. So, it’s important to have a healthy relationship with it, both mentally and physically. People who push unrealistic beauty ideals through social media, magazines, or other platforms are often struggling with their own issues. They use these standards as a way to make money, but those expectations aren’t real, and they certainly don’t define you. You are already 100 percent complete as you are. Never compare yourself to others.
If you want to lose weight or gain weight, that’s entirely your choice—but do it for yourself, not because you feel pressured by outside expectations. The most important thing is to stay positive about who you are, every single day. It’s all about loving yourself for you, not for what others think or say.
- “Loving yourself is the greatest revolution.” – Unknown
- “The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” – Sonya Friedman
- “I’ve never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I’m very proud of that.” – Adele
- “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “When you discover your self-worth you will lose interest in anyone who doesn’t see it.” – Unknown
- “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
- “Your body, your rules. Do not let society fuck you up!” – Unknown
- “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.” – Sophia Loren
- “Love your body. It’s the only place you have to live.” – Jim Rohn
- “Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like.” – Emma Watson
- “Your body hears everything your mind says.” – Naomi Judd
- “Dear Body, you were never a problem. There is nothing wrong with your size… you’re good enough already.” – Unknown
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.” – Lucille Ball
- “Self-care is giving the world the best of you, instead of what’s left of you.” – Katrina Mayer
- “Confidence is the only key. I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself.” – Emma Stonen
- “My body is not yours to critique and discuss. My body is my vessel.” – Sophie Lewis
- “And I said to my body, softly, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath and replied, ‘I’ve been waiting my whole life for this.” – Nayyirah Waheed
- “One day I decided that I was beautiful and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl.” – Gabourey Sidibe
- “You don’t have to fully love yourself. You just have to have that little thread of ‘I’m doing this for me.” – Chelsea Charlotte
- “A woman’s beauty should not be defined by the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.” – Michelle Obama
- “There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself.” – Steve Maraboli
- “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” – Sophia Bush
- “I don’t look in the mirror and go, ‘Oh, I look fantastic!’ I just don’t believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, ‘This is who I am.” – Kate Winslet
- “Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I’m guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin.” – Kristen Bell
- “You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don’t know it, all of that doesn’t even matter.” – C. JoyBell C.
- “My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body.” – Serena Williams
- “Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name.” – Geneen Roth
- “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel
- “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.” – Venus Williams
- “My body is normal, and I’m not trying to prove anything.” – Lucy Hale
- “You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.” – Amy Bloom
- “Is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive,’ ‘jealous,’ ‘shallow,’ ‘vain,’ ‘boring,’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me.” – J.K. Rowling
- “You have to stand up and say, ‘There’s nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am; you’re the one with the problem!.” – Jennifer Lopez
- “I’ve been called fat my whole life. I am fat, so it’s kind of silly to get mad about it.” – Tiss Holiday
- “I’m not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body.” – Demi Lovato
- “You don’t need to be pretty like her; you can be pretty like YOU.” – Unknown
- “The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.” – Jamie Lee Curtis
- “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.” – Geneen Roth
- “When you become an adult and you have a choice of who to have in your life, if someone’s hurting you and making you feel bad, then they shouldn’t be in your life, even if it’s a family member.” – Tess Holliday
- “I don’t wanna be shaped like a girl. I love being shaped like a woman.” – Miley Cyrus
- “Girls of all kinds can be beautiful—from the thin, plus-sized, short, very tall, ebony to porcelain-skinned.” – Tyra Banks
- “I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn’t.” – Adele
- “You are enough just as you are.” – Brené Brown
- “Be you, do you, for you.” – Unknown
- “The best gift you are ever going to give someone — the permission to feel safe in their own skin.” – Hannah Brencher
- “I’ve finally recognized my body for what it is: a personality-delivery system, designed expressly to carry my character from place to place.” – Anna Quindlen
- “Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name.” – Geneen Roth
- “I have learned to enjoy my body when I have a few extra pounds on, just being more voluptuous.” – Fergie
- “You don’t have to fully love yourself. You just have to have that little thread of ‘I’m doing this for me.” – Chelsea Charlotte
- “We are a gorgeous, infinite circle of women of all shades, all styles.” – Alicia Keys
