Weight Quotes
125 quotes
"Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!"
"To wait on love is to tie a weight on your heart and slowly drown. Why sink when you can fly by freely giving love away?"
"Whatever negative things people think and say about you is enough to bring you down provided you belief that it carries a weight that can push you hard. Don't agree to accept what critics say; be prepared to silence them by doing what they think you can't do!"
"A scale can tell what a body weighs, but not its value."
"I spent most of my youth hauling sides of beef and pork to my father's shop. Carrying you is far more enjoyable.""How sweet," Annabelle mumbled sickly, her eyes closed. "Every woman dreams of being told that she's preferable to a dead cow."
"Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number on the scale."
Betsy Lerner, Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
"If you aren't losing weight, and you know you need to (you know), then you gotta go look in the mirror. Step up and own it. Don't hate yourself. Don't play the victim. Just admit that there's some room for improvement and start improving. It might be two steps forward and one step back for a while. That's fine. It's still one step forward."
"Forgiveness allows the burdens that we carry to become the histories that we forget."
"You don't run,' he corrected me. 'But you're more than able.' There was no shadow of doubt in his voice. Hearing it from someone else made me realize: there was nothing stopping me from running but me."
"Finally, I could see with startling clarity that the time I had spent experiencing pain on a run was outweighed by the amount of time that I felt good about it. I was aglow. I was invincible. I was thinking I might be able to do it again."
"Running would help with the weight, but the weight did not help with running."
"More often than not, expecting to lose weight without first losing the diet that made the weight loss necessary is like expecting a pig to be spotless after hosing it down while it was still rolling in mud."
"Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six."
"Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power."
"i feel everything.i do not know how to un-feeland to not feelis to stop the sun."
"i took it off.i did not want to carry it with me anymore."
"oh, the heartbreakingly beautifultender weight of being human."
"Worry is heavy weight."
"Constantly stopping to explain oneself may expand into a frustrating burden for the rare individual, so ceasing to do so is like finally dropping the weights and sprinting towards his goals. Those who insincerely misunderstand, who intentionally distort the motives of a pure-intentioned individual, then, no longer have the opportunity to block his path; instead, they are the ones left to stand on the sidelines shouting frustratedly in the wind of his trail."
"The weight you life is not nearly as heavy as the weigh you carry."
"The weight you lift is not nearly as heavy as the weight you carry."
"The height of your success will be measured with reference to the depth from which you started."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"Never let the weight of challenges and the duration of your dreams scare you to give up."
"If when you think of yourself, you think only of your physical body –even if you are physically fit and firm, at your ideal weight with beautiful hair, eyes or lips- if that is how you gauge your success, you are mistaken"
"I stuff another handful of Raisinets in my mouth. What gets me is the 'pretty face' bit. 'Cause I won't mind being reminded I'm fat as long as you water it down first. Why not say, Hey I'm going to insult you, but first I will congratulate your fortunate genetics and appropriate appliclation of Bobbi Brown cosmetics to prevent you from hitting me. Sh*t; I kind of prefer being called a 'fat bitch.' At least it doesn't pull any punches."
"But, I tell myself, Weight is just an artifact of gravity. If this were a jazz club on the moon, I would weigh less."
"Your life, your health and your weight are 80% due to what you eat, and 20% due to activity level, sunlight exposure, stress levels and adequate rest."
"Shame is embarrassment multiplied against itself until it dies under it’s own weight and we with it. Forgiveness is freedom multiplied against the Cross until it flies under it’s own liberation and we with it."
"She was heavier than he expected - women always are."
"Some men’s chests are more buttlike than some women’s butts."
"One of the leading causes of obesity is the misbelief that, when it comes to juice, ‘100%’ means ‘sugar-free."
"Fat-bashing in all its varied forms–criticism, exclusion, shaming, fat talk, self-deprecation, jokes, gossip, bullying–is one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice. From a very young age, before they can walk away or defend themselves, women are taught that they are how they look, not what they do or what they know. (1)"
"Men weigh love with hands."
"To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself."
"By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful!"
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
"A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience."
"Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful."
"Weight doesn’t matter. It really doesn’t. I mean, it does if you’re a model or whatever."
"If women cannot eat the same food as men, we cannot experience equal status in the community."
"In drawing attention to the physical characteristics of women leaders, they can be dismissed as either too pretty or too ugly. The net effect is to prevent women's identification with the issues. If the public women is stigmatized as too 'pretty,' she's a threat, a rival--or simply not serious; if derided as too 'ugly,' one risks tarring oneself with the same brush by identifying oneself with her agenda."
"This fact is that the heaviest and more burdensome load ever is neither the cement bag nor the iron rod. It is hatred."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"Age in just a number. It carries no weight. The real weight is in impacts. The truth is that you can do it at any age. Get up and be willing to leave a mark."
Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts
"In some cases, people with a body (whose size) they did not long for are victims of having a bank balance (whose size) they longed for."
"Diets don't really work & can be destructive, but if you get healthy overall (mind, body, spirit) then your weight balances naturally."
"Patterns cannot be weighed or measured. Patterns must be mapped."
Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems
"Your relationship with God will determine your spiritual weight, your authority before Him"
"Eating is more than a fix, it's nature's way to nourish cells -- it's a way to extend life. Don't give a natural body unnatural food."
"No one man should be viewed as having more to offer the world than another. We are all equals and every human being has something of value in their composition which makes them unique – just as every country has their own unique resources to share with the world. Never discount somebody based on material wealth, true wealth is what cannot be seen. Never discount a country by their size or resources, while their resources may greatly benefit other lands in need."
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
"When has been disappointed for so long, hope becomes the enemy. One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope."
"Every bride and groom in the history of civilization has gained weight after their wedding day. It is only a matter of time until archaeologists unearth a married caveman who's wearing a pair of old tux pants that were so tight he couldn't get the zipper closed."
Peter Scott, There's a Spouse in My House: A Humorous Journey Through the First Years of Marriage
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