"Standards of beauty are arbitrary. Body shame exists only to the extent that our physiques don't match our own beliefs about how we should look."

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Martha Beck

#Arbitrary Quotes #Body Quotes #Looks Quotes

“How many times have I created to destroy?”

Source : "Vita Nova". Poem by Antoni Lange, 1898.
“Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.”

Source : Joseph Rodman Drake (1835). “The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems”, p.77
“We've become much more casual and much more relaxed in social interactions, where there was a formality and maybe a kind of respect at that time that doesn't exist now.”
“I have often urged my young friends, when faced with an adversary, to "play polo" with him; i.e., not to go at him bald-headed but to ride side by side with him and gradually edge him off your track. Never lose your temper with him. If you are in the right there is no need to, if you are in the wrong you can't afford to.”
“We are living and consuming more than we need, and this impacts our survival.”
“The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning.”
“People's - most people's job is talking about the future or like money not even in the present tense. It's not even paper.”
“There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.”

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