#mage

You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you meet, a barrier thin as the glass of a mirror, you never come all the way out of the mirror; you stand, for the rest of your life, with one foot in this world and no one in another, where everything is upside down and backward and sad. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#self-image #life

Everybody's damaged by something. ↗

— Emma Donoghue

#everybody #life #room #sad #something

We pray for this beloved country, Egypt, for God to protect her safety, security, stability; to protect her unity and more so, her image. ↗

— Pope Theodoros II

#beloved country #country #egypt #god #her

Claims have been made that I've been on a strict workout routine regulated by co-stars, whipped into shape by trainers I've never met, eating sprouted grains I can't pronounce and ultimately losing 14 pounds off my 5'3" frame. Losing 14 pounds out of necessity in order to live a healthier life is a huge victory. I'm a petite person to begin with, so the idea of my losing this amount of weight is utter lunacy. If I were to lose 14 pounds, I'd have to part with both arms. And a foot. ↗

— Scarlett Johansson

#feminism #feminist #johansson #scarlett-johansson #sexism

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. ↗

— Guy Debord

#life

Kept dreaming of this spot she had on her neck, this tiny country. I wanted to visit, to paint a picture of what I found there, a wall with a road map of her skin. ↗

— Cath Crowley

#poetic #romantic #beauty

The real question is, can you love the real me? Not the perfect person you want me to be, not that image you had of me, but who I really am. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#perfect #person #real #love

It’s hard to feel desire when you don’t feel desirable ↗

— Christine Feehan

#love-yourself #self-esteem #self-image #love

[T]he pressure to become muscular begins even earlier, as evidenced by the extreme bulking up of male action figures. These popular toys, including G.I.Joe and Star Wars characters, have increased in muscle size every decade since the 1960s; such subtleties can begin to exert size pressure on boys at a young age. ↗

— Susan Morris Shaffer

#boys-self-image #muscles #age

And hey there's a red car in the fountain ↗

— The Blue Nile

#love