Body positivity is a social movement rooted in the belief that all human beings should have a positive body image, while challenging the ways in which society presents and views the physical body. Profoundly inspirational body positive quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
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Famous Body Positive Quotes
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
I don’t want to wait until I’m 73 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
Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken. — Eve Ensler
No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance. — Robert Holden
Life is so much more beautiful and complex than a number on a scale. — Tess Munster
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
Most important, 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
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 Winslett
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
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
Loving your body is about being comfortable in your body, and only you get to set the parameters of that. Only you get to decide what that looks like, and only you know where the finish line is. Never let anyone make you feel ashamed about what you decide, or don’t decide, to put on your body. — Brittany Gibbons
You look how you look. Be comfortable. What are you going to do? Be hungry every single day to make other people happy? That’s Just dumb. — Jennifer Lawerence
Step away from the mean girls and say bye-bye to feeling bad about your looks. Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others. — Oprah
The most important day is the day you decide you’re good enough for you. It’s the day you set yourself free. — Brittany Josephina
And I said to my body softly, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath and replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this. — Nayyirah Waheed
So the question is, which boulder are you going to choose to roll? The ‘must lose weight’ boulder or the ‘fuck you I will boldly, defiantly accept the body I’ve got and LIVE IN IT’ boulder? — Kate Harding
I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does that—even the people that I consider flawless—then you can start to live with the way you are. — Taylor Swift
You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. — Louise Hay
You don’t have to love your body to be kind to it. — Alissa Rumsey
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
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
Body positivity is as simple as making the choice to love yourself despite your shortcomings to embrace your whole self and not let others dictate how you feel about your body. — Your Truly
Hating our bodies is something that we learn, and it sure as hell is something that we can unlearn. — Megan Jayne Crabbe
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
If we make self-love or body acceptance conditional, the truth is, we will never be happy with ourselves. The reality is that our bodies are constantly changing, and they will never remain exactly the same. If we base our self-worth on something as ever-changing as our bodies, we will forever be on the emotional roller coaster of body obsession and shame. — Chrissy King
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
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
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. — Thich Nhat Hanh
