Body Appreciation Quotes

I'm a woman who is very confident with the body, with my body.

I don't wish to sound chauvinistic, but I feel the female body is beautiful to look at, more so than a male's.

Being pregnant finally helped me understand what my true relationship was with my body - meaning that it wasn't put on this earth to look good in a swimsuit.

When we're younger we take our bodies for granted because they're top-notch. You don't always think in the long run.

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

The body IS a miracle, after all.

Have you thanked your body today? Be grateful, stay positive.

It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

The female body is awesome.

I definitely went through a period where I don't want to say I hated myself, but I hated what I saw in the mirror. I would try to cover it up, and it wasn't until I started doing sports - until after London 2012 - that I kind of started getting more of that confidence in my body and appreciating my body.

At 16, I would wear clothes that hid my body; now I've found clothes that fit me rather than cover me. I'm not skinny, but I'm healthy, and you have to embrace what you've been given.

I love my legs.

You have to just accept your body. You may not love it all the way, but you just have to be comfortable with it, comfortable with knowing that that's your body.

I have learned more and more to enjoy my body when I have a few extra pounds on, just being more voluptuous.

My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

I'm cool with my body, I love my body. I wouldn't trade it for no other body.

I goddamn near lost my nose. And I like it. I like breathing through it.

I'm not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I'm thick. I like my body.

My pregnancy changed my relationship with my body because I went from despising it to marvelling at what it can do.

To step into reverence for your body, you must pardon yourself for all you have done and not done to care for it. You must bless what works and accept and embrace all you perceive to be wrong.

Everyone should consider his body as a priceless gift from one whom he loves above all, a marvelous work of art, of indescribable beauty, and mystery beyond human conception, and so delicate that a word, a breath, a look, nay, a thought may injure it.

I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in.

It doesn't matter: any weight, shape or form or however your body is, you want to be proud of it.

Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even if you can't control everything...you can always control something. Your body - Use it...Amuse it...because one day...you're going to lose it.