35 'body positive' phrases to start loving yourself

We are always looking for information on how to change aspects of our body that we do not like because they do not conform to the beauty standards that the consumer society in which we live has required.

The truth is that the best way to "improve" our body is by changing the negative way in which we see ourselves, to begin to see ourselves by what we really are: beautiful and powerful women.

Why should we love our body?

The 'body positive' movement is here to remind us that our bodies are perfect as they are and that beauty lies in each of our particularities. This is what makes us authentic! You are wonderful just the way you are and the security in this is what makes you perfect. Remember that your body is a vehicle and your environment, but not an object that defines you.

Here we leave you these ‘body positive’ phrases that we hope will help you improve the relationship you have with your body and that inspires you to love yourself more.

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The 35 best ‘body positive’ phrases to love your body

Here are some phrases to reflect on the acceptance of oneself and her own body.

1. Your body speaks to you in sensations; Feelings of tension, fear, hunger, pleasure, vitality, and pain are just a few of the ways he tries to communicate with you.

Phrase from the book Embody: learning to love your unique body by Connie Sobzack, which invites us to reflect on how our body is in constant interaction with us in a deeper way.

2. You can find beauty in softness. It is possible to fall in love with a body that you never thought was worthy of love. It is possible to find peace after spending a lifetime at war with your body. It is possible to recover.

Excellent lesson that the Instagirl Megan Jayne Crabbe after overcoming an eating disorder and that we should all integrate into our hearts.

3. The soul is the form of an organized body, says Aristotle. But the body is precisely what draws this shape, the shape of the shape, the shape of the soul.

With this phrase from the book "58 indications about the body, extension of the soul", Jean-Luc Nancy tells us offers a different vision of how we see the shape of our body usually.

4. When all we want from a person is their body, and deep down, we don't want their mind, heart, or his spirit (all of them inhibitors of the fluid processes of the machines), we reduce that person to a thing.

What happens when those of us who want only the body of that person are nothing more and nothing less than ourselves? A very interesting comparative phrase by Stephen Covey

5. If you spend a great deal of energy trying to demerit your body, or if your imagination is so limited that you cannot see beauty in yourself, then you disconnect from the world around you. You lose perspective and your purpose.

Another phrase from Connie Sobzack, driving force behind the ‘body positive’ movement which shows us the negative effect of only focusing on seeing what we consider to be wrong with our perfect body.

6. The body is the instrument of the soul.

Great phrase by Aristotle that in a very simple way presents the body as our instrument and not our reason for being.

7. You don't owe anyone to be perfect. You are not worth less because you do not have a flat abdomen. Your value is not less because you do not wax your armpits. You are no less beautiful because you have scars, stretch marks, eczema, acne.

An excellent reminder of Instagirl Emily Bador. Another representative of the ‘body positive’ movement.

8. I knew a second birth, when my soul and my body loved and married.

This reflection by Khalil Gibran translates into What better than to be in sync and not in constant struggle with ourselves?

9. Take care of the body with unalterable fidelity. The soul must see only through these eyes and if they are blurred, the whole world becomes cloudy.

The writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe perfectly describes how our eyes see what we want. This phrase prompts us to decide see ourselves in a better way.

10. Don't make your body the grave of your soul.

According to this phrase of Pythagoras, we can understand that living only according to the aesthetic part of your body is to condemn your soul.

11. First of all, it is necessary to take care of the soul if the head and the rest of the body are to function properly.

Plato reminds us that it is based on yourself and who you are inside that you must live.

12. Your body is a temple of nature and of the divine spirit. Keep it healthy; respect it; study it; grant him his rights.

Under this phrase, Henric-Frédéric Amiel tells you: Love your body, it is perfectly designed as it is!

13. Imagine if everyone suddenly decided that today was the day they loved themselves and embraced every part. of themselves, accepting and loving their body and their "defects" because they know that they are the ones who make them They are.

Morgan Mikenas is another instagirl representative of the ‘body positive’ movement that makes this reflection on the attitude with which we could decide to live a new day.

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14. The external beauty is nothing more than the charm of an instant. The appearance of the body is not always the reflection of the soul.

George Sand reflects on the ephemerality of the body and beauty in this beautiful date.

15. Now we know that the soul is the body and the body is the soul. They tell us that they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them enslave our bodies.

Interesting proposition by George Bernard Shaw in which he highlights what the beauty standards set by society, they do to our souls and our bodies.

16. There is nothing rarer, nor more beautiful, than a woman being irreverently herself; comfortable in its perfect imperfection. For me, that is the true essence of beauty.

Steve Maraboli reveals the true secret of beauty.

17. Do you propose to drag your body again by yourself?

With this phrase Friedrich Nietzsche proposes us to be the masters of our bodies. You dare?

18. A soul without a body is as inhuman and hideous as a body without a soul. By the way, the first is a rare exception and the second is our daily bread.

An interesting vision offered by the writer of "The Magic Window", Thomas Mann, on how is our society's relationship with the body.

19. How do you get a beach body?! It is simple. Have a body then take your ass to the beach.

As Kelvin Davis has said, it does not take more than that to show off a great body. Yours already is!

20. A body houses a life. And a heart caresses her.

Remember, the body is where you live; so postulated by José Narosky

21. You can try to make a freakshow of me, but my voice and my message is much stronger than that. I have power in my voice.

Great lesson from Harnaam Kaur, who has not allowed her worth and love for herself to be faded by comments about her facial beauty. She is loved and respected just as she is!

22. The soul, the body, the spirit: the first is the form of the second and the third is the force that produces the first. The second is, therefore, the expressive form of the third. The body expresses the spirit, that is, it makes it sprout outwards, it juices it out, makes it sweat, sparks it and throws everything into space. A body is a deflagration.

Another reflection that Jean-Luc Nancy offers us in his book “58 indications about the body” in which he teaches us how the body helps us express itself.

23. Life is only bearable when the body and the soul live in perfect harmony, there is a natural balance between them and they respect each other.

David Herbert Lawrence also insists on how important it is to live in harmony with our body.

24. My arms might not look like the girl over there or my legs might not look like someone else, not my butt, not my body, or anything, if someone has a problem, I look them in the eye and say: If you don't like it, I don't want you to like it. I'm not asking you to like it.

Famous tennis player and multiple times champion Serena Williams teaches her young daughter to live by hers of her own standards. A lesson that comes in handy for all of us.

25. Beauty should start in the soul and in the heart, otherwise cosmetics are useless.

Coco Chanel dressed women and revolutionized women's fashion, always knowing where true beauty comes from.

26. I am in perfect balance. I am physically and emotionally connected and healed. I am free from worry and at peace with who I am.

Louise Hay on self-acceptance and inner emotional balance.

27. I know this transformation is painful, but you are not falling apart, you are just falling into something different, with a new ability to be beautiful.

William C. Hannan offers us this beautiful and very own reflection for those who are beginning to walk the path of ‘body positive’.

28. We are the only creatures on Earth that can change their biology by what they think and feel.

Our body is more than perfect as it is. However, Deepak Chopra perfectly abstracts in this short sentence how dissatisfied we are about ideas that have been put into our heads.

29. Sexy is not a size, each calorie is not a war, your body is not a battlefield, your value is not measurable in pounds.

A statement to include in your day to day and learn to love yourself.

30. Losing weight is not your life's work, and counting calories is not your soul's calling, you are bound for something greater.

In one way or another, achieving a "perfect" body is one of the goals set by all of us. How are we measuring our value?

31.Don't let a mark on your body be a mark on your soul.

And another phrase to remind us that we leave the attention in the most ephemeral of us allowing our deepest side to wither.

32. A woman who does not like herself cannot be free, and the system has taken care that women will never like themselves.

Beatriz Gimeno reminds us that our self love is our power and that we have renounced him for the material world.

34. The human body is nothing more than appearance, and it hides our reality. The reality is the soul.

Phrase to reflect on inner beauty Work on what you have inside!

35. Remember, body, not only how much you were loved, not only the beds where you were lying, but also those wishes that, for you, shone clearly in glances and trembled in voice.

And we conclude with this reflection of Constantino Cavafis remembering and thanking all the sensations and feelings that our body has allowed us to experience ourselves and those around us. Thanking you for your perfection and your company on the way we live.

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