"Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress."
"I didn't stop hating my body because my body changed; I stopped hating my body because my mind changed. I realized that the beauty standards I'd grown up striving and failing to meet were artificial and arbitrary, and I could choose to simply say "no" and define my own value."
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