25 love your body quotes to get you through the Christmas season
By Tanja _ December 02, 2019
For a lot of people the Christmas season can be incredibly difficult when it to comes to body image, especially if your body shape doesn’t align with the perceived “beauty norm”, if you are subjected to “body policing” by people around you or if you are struggling with an eating disorder. All these might make you anxious about the Christmas season and might make it impossible for you to appreciate the uniqueness and the beauty of your body and your inner self. As a result, you might be left feeling that you don’t meet social expectations and worrying about the changes you would like to make to your body.
If you are struggling with body image issues in the Christmas season and want to boost your self-esteem quickly, reading some inspiring quotes about accepting and loving your body can be the kickstart you need to help you feel better about yourself.
1. “To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.”
—Alan Cohen
2. “If we make self-love or body acceptance conditional, the truth is, we will never be happy with ourselves. The reality is that our bodies are constantly changing, and they will never remain exactly the same. If we base our self-worth on something as ever-changing as our bodies, we will forever be on the emotional roller coaster of body obsession and shame.”
— Chrissy King
3. “And I said to my body softly, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath and replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.”
— Nayyirah Waheed
4. “Your words have so much power. Every day, if you tell yourself ‘I love you,’ if you give yourself one word of validation, it will change your mind.”
— Ashley Graham
5. “I don’t want to wait until I’m 73 to embrace my body. To look back and think of my beauty: How did I miss it? Let’s not wait another moment.”
― Ashley Asti
6. “Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.”
— Eve Ensler
7. ”The most important day is the day you decide you’re good enough for you. It’s the day you set yourself free.”
— Brittany Josephina
8. “Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn’t like, but I’ve stopped complaining about mine because I don’t want to critique nature’s handiwork.”
— Alfre Woodard
10. The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the storyline that says you’re too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step towards transforming your experience of the world.”
–Oprah Winfrey
11. “What about defining yourself by a different kind of measurement? What about your heart, your soul, your compassion, your generosity, your strength, and your power? There are so many other things to focus on besides your waistline.”
– Mariska Hargitay
12. “Your body is the piece of the universe you’ve been given, the place where love and joy and grief happen, where happiness unfolds. Do you really want to keep believing that it’s a horrible, ugly, lumpy thing? Do you really want to keep punching yourself like
that?”
― Geneen Roth
13. “When you’re always trying to conform to the norm, you lose your uniqueness, which can be the foundation for your greatness”.
– Dale Archer
14. “You are not a mistake. 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
15. “By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful!”
– Steve Maraboli
16. “Every weight loss program, no matter how positively it’s packaged, whispers to you that you’re not right. You’re not good enough. You’re unacceptable and you need to be fixed.”
– Kim Brittingham
17. “Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”
― Robert Tew
18. “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
– Lao-Tzu
19. “It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now… with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive”
– Pena Chodron
20. “It’s never been true, not anywhere at any time, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale. We are unrepeatable beings of light and space and water who need these physical vehicles to get around. When we start defining ourselves by that which can be measured or weighed, something deep within us rebels. We don’t want to EAT hot fudge sundaes as much as we want our lives to BE hot fudge sundaes. We want to come home to ourselves.”
– Geneen Roth
21. “Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one.”
– Astrid Alauda
22. “I prayed for change, so I changed my mind.
I prayed for guidance and learned to trust myself.
I prayed for happiness and realized I am not my ego.
I prayed for peace and learned to accept others unconditionally.
I prayed for abundance and realized my doubt kept it out.
I prayed for wealth and realized it is my health.
I prayed for a miracle and realized I am the miracle.
I prayed for a soul mate and realized I am the one.
I prayed for love and realized it’s always knocking, but I have to allow it in.”
– Jackson Kiddard
23. “The moment you change your perception, is the moment you rewrite the chemistry of your body.”
– Dr. Bruce Lipton
24. ”The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
– Buddha
25. “Don’t get lost in the diagnosis, the medicine, or in the statistics about what somebody else did about it. If you don’t feel good, it’s because you’re not thinking in a way that allows the Energy to flow…Stop looking for anything other than your mental and emotional state of being as answers to why you feel how you feel in your body. It is all Vibrational – no exception! And when you get that, then it doesn’t matter what diagnosis has been given to you – it doesn’t matter – it’s temporary.”
– Abraham-Hicks
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It is entirely possible to overcome an eating disorder – I have done it, others have done it and so can you!
