#tee

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#body-image #diet-industry #eating-disorders #self-esteem #weight

To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all. ↗

— Roopleen

#courage #determination #goals #inspiration #inspire

Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes. ↗

— Steven Winterburn

#assholes #depression #humor #humour #low-self-esteem

The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#teen #teen

We become what we repeatedly do. ↗

— Sean Covey

#teen

Let your inner DORK shine through. ↗

— Rachel Renée Russell

#life

The committee's finding that China stole sensitive technology from U.S. weapons research labs is alarming. ↗

— Charles Foster Bass

#china #committee #finding #labs #research

Stations were built at intervals averaging fifteen miles apart. A rider's route covered three stations, with an exchange of horses at each, so that he was expected at the beginning to cover close to forty-five miles - a good ride when one must average fifteen miles an hour. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#average #averaging #beginning #built #close

Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will. ↗

— Brad Bird

#assume #because #brain #direction #every

I think if you have a really big, heavy person, there's a feeling of an invisible puppeteer jerking them around in space. They don't feel like they are moving themselves. ↗

— Brad Bird

#big #feel #feeling #heavy #i