startnew-habits: happyhealthyhopeful: missjaaayna: On reactions to her weight loss:I find it funny that people now come up to me and say, ‘Wow, you are absolutely gorgeous’. I’m like, ‘I was beautiful before I lost weight. Egotistically speaking, I thought I was amazing’ -Raven Symone This quote. Exactly why I dislike before and afters. Why are you to judge a woman solely on her appearance, and deem her as ‘beautiful’ after she has lost the weight? Beauty is not defined by a low weight.  i have rebloged this 20million times and i will do it again
roberto: insolitapuella: the standards and expectations I place on myself are finally wearing me down expectation is probably the biggest source of suffering for most people. Think of it generally, and then reflect on unhappy times. Was there some kind of expectation beforehand? It’s something big I’ve learned, but am not free of yet. I have certainly learned to let go of general life expectations though. I go somewhere / do something with an expectation, and maybe it DOES start happening but still it always turns out differently. I’m learning to see the unexpected as a good thing and open myself to it. For example, I had certain expectations about career and lifestyle when moving to NYC. It’s hard, but if it doesn’t work out in the end, I could be crushed, or I could pick up and move to some place different and try a different life. There’s always Portland, Toronto, Lima, Puebla, Heredia, Austin, a tent and a car, a train ticket…. If I allow myself flexibility then it’s not so bad.  :)
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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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