Make peace with your body, it's not manmade, there are no flaws, there are no mistakes.
Interpretation
Embrace your body as it is, recognizing its natural beauty without judgment.
In this quote, Warsan Shire emphasizes the importance of self-acceptance and appreciating one's body in its natural state. By acknowledging that our bodies are not products of human design but creations of nature, the quote encourages a mindset free from societal pressures and unrealistic standards, reminding us that perceived flaws are merely illusions.
In practice
During a self-love workshop, I shared this quote to inspire participants to embrace their bodies.
I’m not sad, but the boys who are looking for sad girls always find me. I’m not a girl anymore and I’m not sad anymore. You want me to be a tragic backdrop so that you can appear to be illuminated, so that people can say ‘Wow, isn't he so terribly brave to love a girl who is so obviously sad?’ You think I’ll be the dark sky so you can be the star? I’ll swallow you whole.
We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.
Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat.
Every mouth you’ve ever kissed was just practice. All the bodies you’ve ever undressed and ploughed in to were preparing you for me. I don’t mind tasting them in the memory of your mouth. _x000D_ Was it a long journey? Did it take you long to find me? _x000D_ You’re here now, welcome home.
You can't make homes out of human beings.
Make love like you have no secrets like you've never been left never been hurt like the world don't owe you a single wretched thing.
Every nation ought to have a right to provide for its own happiness.
Joy & Satisfaction Show Up More Frequently & on Time when you have Passion
You ask me what I'd like to do that I haven't done and I say 'Nothin'!' I haven't any mountains to climb or oceans to swim. I've been an extremely blessed individual. ... I'm not clamorin' for more trinkets. If I were to die tomorrow, I could say I've had a good life.
The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.
Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
I like bars just after they open in the evening. When the air inside is still cool and clean and everything is shiny. The first quiet drink of the evening in a quiet bar -- that's wonderful.
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