“Don’t try to be perfect; your imperfection is part of your uniqueness.” – Unknown
“One cannot think well, sleep well, love well, if one has not dined well.” --Virginia Woolf
"Never eat more than you can lift." -- Unknown
“The body is a sacred garment. It is the first and the last garment; it is what you enter life in, and what you depart life with, and it should be treated with honor.” -- Martha Graham, Dancer and Choreographer
“Is it possible that even the people who live with you have no knowledge of the REAL you?” – Anonymous
“According to diet lore, ‘indulging’ or ‘giving in to temptation’ is a ‘sin.’ Strangling a few people is a sin. Invading East Timor is a sin. Ethnic cleansing is a sin. Testing nuclear weapons in the Pacific is a sin. I'm sorry, but eating doesn't quite make the grade.” -- Kaz Cooke, Real Gorgeous
“You always pass failure on your way to success” -- Lee Ezell, Author
“Many of the most virulent stereotypes about women in general have not been discarded but merely transferred, so that negative qualities once attributed to all women are now considered the sole province of fat women” -- W. Charisse Goodman, The Invisible Woman
“My business is not to remake myself, but to make the absolute best of what God made.” -- Robert Browning, Poet
“Sure I admit I’m fat. And here’s one of the reasons why: I flip through Recipe Books like Men flip through PLAYBOY, salivating at the pictures, and claiming I just read the text.” -- Barbara-Ann, The Cellulite Queen
“There’s a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.” -- Pearl Bailey, Singer and Actress
“Travel is so broadening, I bought a maternity dress to wear home.” -- Erma Bombeck, Author and Columnist
“Many of us are convinced that making women afraid to be fat is a form of social control. Fear of fat keeps women preoccupied, robs us of our pride and energy, keeps us from taking up space.” -- Boston Self Help, Our Bodies, Ourselves
“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body.” -- Margaret Sanger, Activist
“Fat-bottom girls, you make the rockin' world go 'round!” -- Queen, Music Artists
“Think of yourself as an original work of art. If you want to be an original, you’ve got to be different. An original will try to adapt the world to herself; a copy will try to adapt herself to the world.” -- Unknown
“Happiness is not getting what you want, but in enjoying what you’ve got!” -- Unknown
”The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.” -- Abraham Lincoln
“While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness!” -- Gilda Radner, Comedian
“Face it, more women look like me than Julia Roberts. Why can't the fat girl end up with the prince?” -- Camryn Manheim, Actress
“It is not easy to become beautiful. It requires hard work, patience, and attention to detail. It also takes a certain firmness of purpose. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.” -- Miss Piggy, Queen of ‘Sesame Street’
“The only gift is a portion of thyself.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Riots, not diets!! Start a revolution!! Stop hating your body!! 2, 4, 6, 8, we do not regurgitate!! 3, 5, 7, 9, love your body, it's just fine!!” -- The Bod Squad, Fat-Positive Cheerleaders
“Though no one can go back and make a new start, anyone can start from now, and make a brand new ending.” -- Carl Bard, Gloomies
“You must become the change you wish to see in the world.” -- Gandhi, Spiritual and Political Leader
“If I had to, I can do anything. I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman.” -- Helen Reddy, Singer
“Let your hook be always cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be fish.” –Ovid
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” -- Margaret Mead, Cultural Anthropologist
“Everybody talks about diversity, but if everybody has to fit a certain mold, well, that’s not wanting diversity; it’s asking people to change who they really are.” -- Unknown
“All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” -- Arthur C. Schoepenhauer, Philosopher
“What size am I? I don’t know. I’m not in shape yet.” -- Lee Ezell, Author
“Of all pleasures, the fruit of labor is the sweetest.” -- Marquis de Vauvenargues
“When I think of the hundreds of things I might be, I get down on my knees and thank God I’m Me.” -- Elsie Janis, Author and Poet
“If you’re not doing something that scares you, you’re not living up to your potential.” – Unknown
“One kind word can warm three winter months.” -- Japanese Proverb
“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any good. I hate a song that makes you think that you are just born to lose. Bound to lose. No good to nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of your bad luck or hard traveling. I am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of blood. I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world, and that if it has hit you pretty hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter how hard it's run you down and rolled over you, no matter what color, what size you are, how you are built; I am out to sing the songs that will make you take pride in yourself and in your work.” -- Woody Guthrie, Songwriter and Musician
“Love never fails” -- Corinthians 13
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