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I think about my body as a tool to do the stuff I need to do, but not the be all and end all of my existence.— Lena Dunham

I’ve made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.— Sandra Bullock

Hating our bodies is something that we learn, and it sure as hell is something that we can unlearn.— Megan Jayne Crabbe

I don’t want to wait until I’m 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

I say I love myself, and they’re like, ‘oh my gosh’, she’s so brave. She’s so political. For what? All I said is ‘I love myself, bitch!’— Lizzo

Life is so much more beautiful and complex than a number on a scale.— Tess Munster

Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.— Eve Ensler

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You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.— Louise Hay

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

My weight? It is what it is. You could get hit by a bus tomorrow. It's about being content. And sometimes other priorities win. — Melissa McCarthy

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

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.— Thich Nhat Hanh

The most powerful thing anyone can say to us is what we say to ourselves.— Christine D’Ercole

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You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.— Louise Hay

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

Since I don’t look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.— Serena Williams

You can’t hate yourself happy. You can’t criticize yourself thin. You can’t shame yourself worthy. Real change begins with self-love and self-care.— Jessica Ortner

I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does—even the people that I consider flawless—then you can start to live with the way you are.— Taylor Swift

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

I don’t have perfect teeth. I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.— Emma Watson

The fact of the matter is, I absolutely do try to conform to normal standards of beauty. I am just not remotely successful at it. [But] I never want to be part of the problem. I want to always be as body-positive as girls hope that I am.— Mindy Kaling

I’d rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life than to look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in real life.— Jennifer Lawrence

Don’t waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living.— Meryl Streep

As a child, I never heard one woman say to me, ‘I love my body’. Not my mother, my elder sister, my best friend. No one woman has ever said, ‘I am so proud of my body.’ So I make sure to say it to my daughter because a positive physical outlook has to start at an early age.— Kate Winslet

In order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.— Portia de Rossi

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

To love yourself as you are is a miracle, and to seek yourself is to have found yourself, for now. And now is all we have, and love is who we are.— Anne Lamott

People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.— Salma Hayek

How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin—that’s what really makes you beautiful.— Bobbi Brown

Each individual woman’s body demands to be accepted on its own terms.— Gloria Steinem

If I didn’t know better, I’d say I was thin. I do, however, know better. The fact is, I’m not thin. But here’s my newfound reality: You don’t have to be thin to look great.— Lisa Kogan

Weight loss does not make people happy. Or peaceful. Being thin does not address the emptiness that has no shape or weight or name. Even a wildly successful diet is a colossal failure because inside the new body is the same sinking heart.— Geneen Roth

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 … My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.— Alfre Woodard

I realize everybody wants what they don’t have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what’s on the outside.— Selena Gomez

My weight? It is what it is. You could get hit by a bus tomorrow. It’s about being content. And sometimes other priorities win.— Melissa McCarthy

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Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I’m guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin, and sometimes when you sit, they get bumpy.– Kristen Bell

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’re a human being, you live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damn red velvet cupcake.– Emma Stone

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people. – Jamie Lee Curtis

I don’t look in the mirror and go, ‘Oh, I look fantastic!’ Of course I don’t. Nobody is perfect. I just don’t believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, ‘This is who I am and look at me not being perfect!’ I’m proud of that.– Kate Winslet

Even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.– Cindy Crawford

I’m pretty comfortable with my body. I’m imperfect. The imperfections are there. People are going to see them, but I take the view that you only live once." – Kate Hudson

I share the same advice that my mom gave me: Stay hydrated and sleep well. And that being a beautiful person on the inside is what really matters.– Jessica Alba

You can’t eat beauty; it doesn’t sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul.– Lupita Nyong’o

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I have a belly + I have cellulite + I am still deserving of love. — Amy Schumer

I’m not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body. — Demi Lovato

Find a group of people who challenge + inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, + it will change your life. — Amy Poehler

My limbs work, so I’m not going to complain about how my body is shaped. — Drew Barrymore

Beauty is the enemy. We try to conquer not feeling beautiful all our lives. It’s a battle that can’t be won. There’s no definition of beauty. The only way to achieve beauty is to feel it from inside without breaking down into individual physical attributes. — Miley Cyrus

I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does that– even the people I consider flawless– you can start to live with the way you are. — Taylor Swift

#] I realize everybody wants what they don’t have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful that what’s on the outside. — Selena Gomez

I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid to be herself. — Emma Stone

I don’t have perfect teeth. I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body + can say that she loves it + doesn’t want to change anything. — Emma Watson

I’m never going to starve myself for a part. I don’t want little girls to be like, ‘Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I’m going to skip dinner.’ — Jennifer Lawrence