Body image quotes from the women who know best.

If there’s one thing celebs know, it’s dealing with incessant criticism. With the 24/7 buzz these ladies receive, consider them the grand poobahs of dealing with—and dare we say conquering—body image issues.

Below, 17 refreshing body image quotes to bookmark for a rainy day (in front of the mirror):

1. “I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, ‘You can’t wear anything sleeveless or strapless.’ And all of a sudden I was like, ‘What if I just didn’t send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it?’ And now I’m more comfortable in clothes than ever.” -Drew Barrymore
2. “Instead of looking in the mirror and focusing on your flaws, look in the mirror and appreciate your best features. Everyone has them.” -Demi Lovato
3. “For young women, I would say, don’t worry so much about your weight. Girls spend way too much time thinking about that, and there are better things. For young men, and women too, what makes you different or weird, that’s your strength. Everyone tries to look a cookie-cutter kind of way, and actually the people who look different are the ones who get picked up. I used to hate my nose. Now, I don’t.” -Meryl Streep
4. “There’s a whole list of things I would probably change about myself. For example, I’m always trying to lose fifteen pounds. But I never need to be skinny. I don’t want to be skinny. I’m constantly in a state of self-improvement, but I don’t beat myself up over it.” -Mindy Kaling
   
5. “I keep telling myself that I’m a human being, an imperfect human being who’s not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.” -Emma Watson
6. “I am not a sample size, and I’m okay with that.” -Jordin Sparks
7. “You’re a human being, you live once, and life is wonderful, so eat the damn red velvet cupcake.” -Emma Stone
8. “My fears came true: People called me fat and hideous, and I lived. And now I keep living.” -Lena Dunham
9. “Even I don’t wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.” -Cindy Crawford
10. “I’ve never had a problem with the way I look. I’d rather go for lunch with my friends than go to a gym.” -Adele
11. “If anybody even tries to whisper the word ‘diet,’ I’m like, ‘You can go fuck yourself.'” -Jennifer Lawrence
12. “To all girls with butts, boobs, hips and a waist, put on a bikini—put it on and stay strong.” -Jennifer Love Hewitt
13. “I think that whatever size or shape body you have, it’s important to embrace it and get down! The female body is something that’s so beautiful. I wish women would be proud of their bodies and not dis other women for being proud of theirs!” -Christina Aguilera
14. “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
15. “I tried being anorexic for four hours… then I was like, ‘I need some bagels.'” -Kat Dennings
16. “People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing you are the beholder.” -Salma Hayek
17. “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” -Marilyn Monroe

What are your favorite body image quotes?

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Inspiring quotes on the fine art of fitting out.

1. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” -Rick Warren
2. “Honestly, if you don’t fit in then you’re probably doing the right thing.” -Lights Poxleitner
3. “Maybe it’s wrong-footed trying to fit people into the world, rather than trying to make the world a better place for people.” -Paul McHugh
4. “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” -e.e. cummings
5. “This above all: to thine own self be true.” -William Shakespeare
6. “He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.” -Raymond Hull
7. “The best you can be at any given moment is yourself.” -Elizabeth Alraune
8. “About all you can do in life is be who you are.” -Rita Mae Brown
9. “What you are will show in what you do.” -Thomas A. Edison
10. “Whatever you are doing is the most beautiful thing.” -Yogi Bhajan
11. “You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you’ll catch up.” -Natsuki Takaya
12. “Celebrate all the things you don’t like about yourself – love yourself.” -Lady Gaga
13. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” -Confucius
14. “Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.” -Julius Charles Hare
15. “There is just one life for each of us: our own.” -Euripides
16. “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” -Theodore Roosevelt
17. “Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.” -Shakti Gawain
18. “The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.” -Anne Morrow
19. “As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.” -Robert H. Schuller
20. “Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.” -James Broughton
21. “The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.” -Walt Disney
22. “A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.” -Eileen Caddy
23. “In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.” -Coco Chanel
24. “You are unrepeatable. There is a magic about you that is all your own.” -D.M. Dellinger
25. “Dare to be remarkable.” -Jane Gentry
26. “You are the colors you choose.” -Vicky Wall
27. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” -Harvey Fierstein
28. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.” -Lucille Ball
29. “When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.” -Zig Ziglar
30. “Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you’re posing, you’ll forget the pose, and then where are you?” -Fanny Brice
31. “I’d like to think the best of me was still hiding up my sleeve.” -John Mayer
32. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” -Anonymous

What are your favorite inspiring quotes on fitting out?

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Commitment quotes to keep you on track – at work, at home, at life.

Whether you’re committing yourself to a career, a partner, or (gasp!) both, it’s a comforting, terrifying, and fulfilling process. Here are 30 commitment quotes to keep you rocking at life:

1. ”Commitment is an act, not a word.” -Jean-Paul Sartre
2. ”Without commitment, you cannot have depth in anything, whether it’s a relationship, a business or a hobby.” -Neil Strauss
3. ”Seems to me that there is a fine line between insanity and dedication… I call that line commitment.” -Jeremy Aldana
4. ”If you can’t value a commitment made by someone else, your own commitments lose their value too.” -Ram Mohan
5. ”Try not. Do or do not. There is no try.” -Yoda
6. ”The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.” -Martina Navratilova
7. ”When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects the output.” -A.R. Rahman
8. ”Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.” -James Allen
9. ”The time to hesitate is through.” -Jim Morrison
10. ”It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.” -Ralph Ellison
11. ”The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it is not without doubt but in spite of doubt.” -Rollo May
12. ”Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.” -Stephen King
13. ”All great achievements require time.” -Maya Angelou
14. ”I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.” -Mia Hamm
15. ”Don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.” -Clint Eastwood
16. ”You always have two choices: Your commitment versus your fear.” -Sammy Davis, Jr.
17. ”Desire is the key to motivation, but it’s determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal – a commitment to excellence – that will enable you to attain the success you seek.” -Mario Andretti
18. ”You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” -Margaret Thatcher
19. ”Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.” -Bill Blackman
20. ”Anyone can dabble, but once you’ve made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it’s very hard for people to stop you.” -Bill Cosby
21. ”Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” -Tony Robbins
22. ”I’ve never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.” -Charles F. Kettering
23. ”It’s always too early to quit.” -Norman Vincent Peale
24. ”I am easily satisfied with the very best.” -Winston Churchill
25. ”I like villains because there’s something so attractive about a committed person – they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They’re motivated.” -Russell Crowe
26. ”If you don’t invest very much, then defeat doesn’t hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.” -Dick Vermeil
27. ”Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, ‘I will do better tomorrow.’” -Brigham Young
28. ”The resolved mind hath no cares.” -George Herbert
29. ”Only do what your heart tells you.” -Princess Diana
30. ”Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.” -Henry David Thoreau

What are your favorite commitment quotes?

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Chocolate is my favorite hobby. No explanation needed – I’m sure you all understand. I always keep an emergency piece (or two) of chocolate in my purse and never go to bed without at least one bite of it. And, I am most certainly not alone.

The following 20 chocolate quotes capture the passion and deep-seated love for chocolate:

“All You need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.” – Charles M. Schulz

“There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate.” – Linda Grayson

“Don’t wreck a sublime chocolate experience by feeling guilty. Chocolate isn’t like premarital sex. It will not make you pregnant. And it always feels good.” – Lora Brody

“Chocolate is a perfect food, as wholesome as it is delicious, a beneficent restorer of exhausted power. It is the best friend of those engaged in literary pursuits.” – Baron Justus von Liebig

“It’s not that chocolates are a substitute for love. Love is a substitute for chocolate. Chocolate is, let’s face it, far more reliable than a man.” – Miranda Ingram

“He showed the words ‘chocolate cake’ to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.” – Michael Pollan

“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.” – Katharine Hepburn

“If there’s no chocolate in Heaven, I’m not going.” – Jane Seabrook

“The superiority of chocolate, both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare…neither knew chocolate.” – Sandra Boynton

“As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.” – Sandra Boynton

“Any sane person loves chocolate.” – Bob Greene

“Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world’s perfect food.” – Michael Levine

“Every now and then, I’ll run into someone who claims not to like chocolate, and while we live in a country where everyone has the right to eat what they want, I want to say for the record that I don’t trust these people, that I think something is wrong with them, and that they’re probably – and this must be said – total duds in bed.” – Steve Almond

“Look, there’s no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.” – Fernando Pessoa

“Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two but can’t remember what they are.” – Matt Lauer

“I never met a chocolate I didn’t like.” – Deanna Troi

“If you are not feeling well, if you have not slept, chocolate will revive you. But you have no chocolate! I think of that again and again! My dear, how will you ever manage?” – Marquise de Sévigné

“My favorite thing in the world is a box of fine European chocolates which is, for sure, better than sex.” – Alicia Silverstone

“Once in a while I say, ‘Go for it’ and I eat chocolate.” – Claudia Schiffer

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37 inspirational quotes on creativity to feel your soul.

1. We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down. -Kurt Vonnegut

2. You don’t have to be “a creative” to be creative. –Drory Ben-Menachem

3. Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. -James Russell Lowell

4. Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better. -John Updike

5. Creativity always dies a quick death in rooms that house conference tables. -Bruce Hershensohm

6. The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing. -Rainer Maria Rilke

7. Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -Albert Einstein 

8. Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen. -Jonh Steinbeck

9. True creativity often starts where language ends. -Arthur Koestler 

10. The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.  -Carl Jung

11. The chief enemy of creativity is good sense. -Pablo Picasso

12. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it. –Dee Hock

13. Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, the just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. -Steve Jobs

14. Dance first, think later. -Samuel Beckett

15. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -Scott Adams

16. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. -Marianne Williamson

17. Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. -Anne Sexton

18. Nothing is impossible. The world itself says “I’m Possible”! -Audrey Hepburn

19. Minimalism is not a lack of something. It’s simply the perfect amount of something. -Nicholas Burroughs

20. Creativity is intelligence having fun. -Albert Einstein

21. If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing. -Marc Chagall

22. The creative person wants to be a know-it-all. He wants to know about all kinds of things-ancient history, nineteenth century mathematics, current manufacturing techniques, hog futures. Because he never knows when these ideas might come together to form a new idea. It may happen six minutes later, or six months, or six years. But he has faith that it will happen. -Carl Ally

23. That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you. -Ray Bradbury

24. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. -George Lois

25. Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it. -Salvador Dali

26. If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. -Vincent van Gogh

27. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. –Ayn Rand

28. There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. -Edward de Bono

29. You can’t wait for inspiration, you have to go after it with a club. -Jack London

30. Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. -William Plomer

31. To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. -Osho

32. I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones. -John Cage

33. To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. -Joseph Chilton Pierce

34. You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. -Maya Angelou

35. A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. –Gerald G. Jampolsky

36. When we engage in what we are naturally suited to do, our work takes on the quality of play and it is play that stimulates creativity. -Linda Naiman

37. Find something only you can say. -James Dickey

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Inspiring quotes for fresh starts and new beginnings. 

A new year brings a blank slate, the chance to begin again. But really, every day provides us the opportunity for a fresh start. Here are 20 inspiring quotes intended to do just that.

1. And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never were. -Rainer Maria Rilke

2. It’s not about ‘what can I accomplish?’ but ‘what do I want to accomplish?’ Paradigm shift. -Brene Brown

3. Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

4. When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way. -Wayne Dyer

5. The beginning is always today. -Mary Wollstonecraft

6. Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. -Desmond Tutu

7. Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. -Liz Smith

8. I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. -J. B. Priestly

9. Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. -Carl Bard

10. Look with favour upon a bold beginning. -Virgil

11. If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. -Rumi

12. Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting. -Winston Churchill

13. What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

14. Life isn’t about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
-George Bernard Shaw

15. The beginning is the most important part of the work. -Plato

16. Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. -Alan Cohen

17. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. -Swami Vivekananda

18.Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it. -William Durant

19. Every moment is a fresh beginning. -T.S. Eliot

20. It is never too late to be what you might have been. -George Eliot

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We rounded up some of our favorite quotes to inspire you to live in the present moment.

1. Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
-Sophocles

2. The beauty of this day doesn’t depend on its lasting forever.
-Marty Rubin

3. Rejoice in the things that are present; all else is beyond thee.
-Montaigne

4. Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
-Buddha

5. Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
-Eskimo Saying

6. Pick the day. Enjoy it – to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come… The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present – and I don’t want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
-Audrey Hepburn

7. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

8. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
-Albert Einstein

9. It is a mistake to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
-Sir Winston Churchill

10. The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe

11. Life is a succession of moments. To live each one is to succeed.
-Coreta Kent

12. The heart surrenders everything to the moment. The mind judges and holds back.
-Ram Dass

13. You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.
–Henry David Thoreau

14. If you were conscious, that is to say totally present in the Now,
all negativity would dissolve almost instantly.
It could not survive in your presence.
-Eckhart Tolle

15. In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
-Leonardo da Vinci

16. Remember then: there is only one time that is important– Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!
-Leo Tolstoy

17. Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
-Francis Bacon

18. Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.
-Oprah Winfrey

19. Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
-Leo Buscaglia

20. Forever is composed of nows.
-Emily Dickinson

21. History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy

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