self-image

You were born an original work of art. Stay original.

Leaders with high esteem are high performers.

Inferior and Superior life lives in the interior of a person.

Awake my great soul.Awake my great spirit.Awake my great strength.

There is something about my face in the mirrors that catch it. Even at a distance it will never be right again, not even to a casual glance. Beauty: it's the upkeep that costs, that's what Balzac said, not the initial investment.

When you were in a room with Kurtis James, whether it was one or a hundred other people, Kurtis seemed to be the only one there

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing__hey are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

Having a purpose is the little secret of the nonpretties. Something to do always beats something to look at.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

Everything changed when I learned to honour my body instead of fighting it. When I learned to take care of it, like a precious castle to protect this weary heart. To stop harming it, punishing it for looking like this or that, feeling like this or that. I don't look like they all told me I had to do, but I'm healthy and strong and vital. That is enough.

Every time I saw Lacey, she'd gained five more pounds. She was turning into the kind of obese girl who does her hair like a forties pinup and wears bright red lipstick, a blue polka-dot dress with a white doily collar, colorful tattoos across her huge, smushed cleavage, as if these considerations would distract us from how fat and miserable she'd become.

Fat-bashing in all its varied forms__riticism, exclusion, shaming, fat talk, self-deprecation, jokes, gossip, bullying__s one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice. From a very young age, before they can walk away or defend themselves, women are taught that they are how they look, not what they do or what they know. (1)

Accept yourself in a way you are created

From the dream to mainstream...Do whatever is necessary to make your dream a reality. To get others to invest in you and your dreams you must be willing to invest in yourself.

Working on yourself will reveal a new image of yourself

Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.

If it is true, as God says, that we are as we think, we risk becoming what we most fear if our fear is stronger than our love.

To ugly ducklings everywhere,Don't worry about those fluffy yellow morons:They'll never get to be swans