Non Toxic Beauty Quotes

A few months ago on a school morning, as I attempted to etch a straight midline part on the back of my wiggling daughter's soon-to-be-ponytailed blond head, I reminded her that it was chilly outside and she needed to grab a sweater.

"No, mama."

"Excuse me?"

"No, I don't want to wear that sweater, it makes me look fat."

"What?!" My comb clattered to the bathroom floor. "Fat?! What do you know about fat? You're 5 years old! You are definitely not fat. God made you just right. Now get your sweater."

She scampered off, and I wearily leaned against the counter and let out a long, sad sigh. It has begun. I thought I had a few more years before my twin daughters picked up the modern day f-word. I have admittedly had my own seasons of unwarranted, psychotic Slim-Fasting and have looked erroneously to the scale to give me a measurement of myself. But these departures from my character were in my 20s, before the balancing hand of motherhood met the grounding grip of running. Once I learned what it meant to push myself, I lost all taste for depriving myself. I want to grow into more of a woman, not find ways to whittle myself down to less.

The way I see it, the only way to run counter to our toxic image-centric society is to literally run by example. I can't tell my daughters that beauty is an incidental side effect of living your passion rather than an adherence to socially prescribed standards. I can't tell my son how t ~ Kristin Armstrong

I am very passionate about non-toxic food and beauty and home. ~ Gwyneth Paltrow

He would talk, and I would talk, and he would talk, and each of our words sounded out the deepest secret depths inside us. There are some forms of love that words can do no justice to. There are some scars that can't be seen. Perfection is in itself an imperfection. He had flaws. He was sick. He needed help. Is not everyone sick, at one time or another? That was part of his beauty, his sickness. If he had not been sick, he would not have been beautiful, in the way that consumptives are, burning themselves up in brilliant flashes of light . . . I don't expect you to be able to understand. Love is strong enough to resurrect the dead. I don't like the word scar, because it implies intent and blame. A soul as powerful as his had to burn. I have never known a love like this. You don't know. I would have done anything at all for him. You don't know. It feels so goddamn good to be needed, to have someone tell you that he has a gaping hole in him whose shape is made to fit you . . . I saw that he was burning a piece of art on me, a signature on my psyche because it filled the hole in his own, and he wanted to make me his. ~ Dexter Palmer

Marcelina loved that miniscule, precise moment when the needle entered her face. It was silver; it was pure. It was the violence that healed, the violation that brought perfection. There was no pain, never any pain, only a sense of the most delicate of penetrations, like a mosquito exquisitely sipping blood, a precision piece of human technology slipping between the gross tissues and cells of her flesh. She could see the needle out of the corner of her eye; in the foreshortened reality of the ultra-close-up it was like the stem of a steel flower. The latex-gloved hand that held the syringe was as vast as the creating hand of God: Marcelina had watched it swim across her field of vision, seeking its spot, so close, so thrillingly, dangerously close to her naked eyeball. And then the gentle stab. Always she closed her eyes as the fingers applied pressure to the plunger. She wanted to feel the poison entering her flesh, imagine it whipping the bloated, slack, lazy cells into panic, the washes of immune response chemicals as they realized they were under toxic attack; the blessed inflammation, the swelling of the wrinkled, lined skin into smoothness, tightness, beauty, youth.

Marcelina Hoffman was well on her way to becoming a Botox junkie.

Such a simple treat; the beauty salon was on the same block as Canal Quatro. Marcelina had pioneered the lunch-hour face lift to such an extent that Lisandra had appropriated it as the premise for an entire series. Whore. ~ Ian McDonald

No one wants a dandelion.
They crop up all over the place, ugly and unfortunate, an average blossom in a world desperatly seeking beauty. They're weeds, people say. They're uninteresting and offer no fragrance and there are too many of them, too much of them, we don't want them, destroy them.
Dandelions are a nuisance,
We desire the buttercups, the daffodils, the morning glories. We want the azalea, the poinsettia, the calla lily. We pluck them from our gradens and plant them in our homes and we don't seem to remember their toxic nature.
We don't seem to care that
if you get too close?
if you take a small bite?
The beauty is replaced wit pain and laced with a posion that laughs in your blood, destroys your organs, infevts your heart.
But pick a dandelion.
Pick a dandelion and make a salad, eat the leaves, the flower, the stem. Thread it in your hair, plant it in the ground and watch it thrive.
Pick a dandelion and close your eyes
make a wish
blow it into the wind.

Watch it
change
the
world. ~ Tahereh Mafi

She carried herself like a dishonored queen. Even the way she held her head at an angle as she considered the buildings around us seemed watched and pretentious, and I thought about my mother saying there was something toxic about being very beautiful. It must be terrible to be a woman. ~ Rufi Thorpe

The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought. And when you suspend your individual beauty you also give up a lot of your humanity. You will do things in the name of a group that you would never do on your own. Injuring, hurting, killing, drinking are all part of it, because you've lost your identity, because you now owe your allegiance to this thing that's bigger than you are and that controls you. ~ George Carlin

Handling toxic people is not an art, they will be the victim of their own toxicity ~ P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

My love is toxic and you're suicidal. ~ Ahmed Mostafa

It's very possible and very okay to forgive someone and still not want to spend time with them ~ Karen Salmansohn

Cleanliness is a habit that keeps the body, mind, and environment neat, clean, and delightful and free from dirt and toxic things. ~ Amit Ray

Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you. ~ Christian Baloga

Planet Bog - Pools of toxic chemicals bubble under a choking atmosphere of poisonous gases ... but aside from that, it's not much like Earth. ~ Bill Watterson

The toxic residue of humanity - you have to guard yourself, guard that sensitivity even more heavily because otherwise you can pick up so many pollutants that you'll become more toxic. ~ Frederick Lenz

Testosterone does not have to be toxic. ~ Anna Quindlen

Toxic relationships are like a good pasta that has been overcooked. ~ Asa Don Brown

The realities of nursing are that they work in environments which are typically filled with toxic air, toxic light, high levels of radiation, and potentially deadly infectious agents. ~ Steven Magee

When you do not know how to focus your thoughts effectively, they can become scattered, miscellaneous, and fixated on "stuff negative notions, toxic relationships, and situations from the past." ~ Darren Johnson

Superfund was passed with the good intention of cleaning up America's toxic waste sites. ~ Fred Thompson

Never tolerate a toxic person in your organization. ~ Peter Diamandis

I was in denial of the glaring reality that my existence depended on my willingness to comply with the family policy of me earning the splinter of space they granted to me. ~ M. Wakefield

For many people, a western lifestyle equates to living in a toxic home, working a toxic job, eating toxic food, being sick from your thirties onward and eventually dying from preventable disease. ~ Steven Magee

God longs for us to freely pour out every single emotion, no matter how toxic, right before Him. ~ Beth Moore

Sour gas is one of the most dangerous, toxic substances known to man. ~ Andrew Nikiforuk

Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive. ~ Edmund Phelps

Marijuana is one of the least toxic substances in the whole pharmacopoeia ~ Lester Grinspoon

Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state. ~ Cory Booker

I can sum up the corporate government disability system with two words: Toxic Bureaucrats. ~ Steven Magee

I think ideology is toxic, all ideology. It's not that there are good ones and bad ones. All ideology is toxic, because ideology is a kind of insult to the gift of human free thinking. ~ Terence McKenna

Hope dares to imagine the future as a legitimate alternative to the vicious repetitions of the past. But the refusal to forgive is a toxic memory that endlessly pulls the painful past into the present. The toxic memory of the unforgiven past poisons the present and contaminates the future. This toxic ~ Brian Zahnd

Don't attempt to reconnect with toxic people from your past just because you're feeling lonely. Focus on getting better & attracting better. ~ Nitya Prakash

She was a spoiler, a needler, an underminer, a diminisher, simply by instinct. ~ Iris Murdoch

The fluoride ion exerts its toxic effect by inhibiting the action of many enzyme systems. ~ Hugo Theorell

Because anyone that can make you feel that bad about yourself is toxic. ~ Sarah Dessen

Some people are just 'diminishers' and 'spoilers' for others. I suppose almost everybody diminishes someone. A saint would be nobody's spoiler. ~ Iris Murdoch

The U.S. population, a mere four or five percent of the world total, creates half the world's toxic waste. ~ Helen Caldicott

Hopelessness is a really toxic and dangerous state. ~ Cory Booker

I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail. ~ Diablo Cody

Every puff was like sucking in the abyss, yet he inhaled until his lungs filled with toxic smoke that clouded his thoughts of her. ~ Ahmed Mostafa

I find Hollywood really toxic. ~ Rachel Weisz

We have launched an international campaign to legalize coca leaves, and we want the United Nations to remove coca from its list of toxic substances. Scientists proved long ago that coca leaves are not toxic. ~ Evo Morales

Could it be that toxic mimics are toxic because they ignore responsibility, they ignore relationship, they ignore presence, they substitute control for fluidity and choice? ~ Ward Churchill

You cannot lead toxic people but you can inoculate those who can be infected by a toxic person and detoxify the team by ridding it of the toxin. ~ Jeffrey G. Duarte

But that shadow self of hers wasn't so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream. ~ Kristin Hannah

Beauty always promises, but never gives anything. ~ Simone Weil

Don't let Negative and Toxic people rent space in your head.
Raise the rent and kick them out. ~ Zig Ziglar

We've all made mistakes, they are not toxic and evil. ~ Lance Armstrong

What beauty would we see around us, if for just one second we could acknowledge the beauty that lies within ourselves? ~ Monica Dumont

I have found the best way to deal with a toxic person is to not respond in any other way than monotone voice and a businesslike manner. ~ Jen Grice

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors. ~ Mary Catherine Bateson

Unacceptable Levels is Powerful. It tells the story of toxic chemicals in just about every aspect of our lives, and the egregious lack of regulation. Our ability to protect our families is at stake. ~ Joan Blades

'Scar Tissue' is the only book I've ever written when I've felt completely toxic, ill. ~ Michael Ignatieff

Toxic people don't like it when others see though them, so they'll do all they can to make everyone else look like a monster. ~ Nitya Prakash

The beauty that we find in the world is a reflection of the beauty inside of us. ~ Abhijit Naskar

True Beauty

True beauty is in the way she laughs
True beauty is in her eyes
True beauty is how she acts
True beauty is inside
True beauty is unseen
True beauty is only felt
True beauty is not mean
True beauty is herself
True beauty can't be cruel
True beauty is bare
True beauty within you
True beauty is always there
True Beauty can't be covered with makeup
True beauty means true love
True beauty can't be baked up
True beauty is the flight of a dove
True beauty has no flaws
For True beauty is all that matters after all...
Even in the moon light your beauty will shine... ~ Jean Pullman

What these people do here is obviously not working. They sit in their commuter traffic hour after hour. They make the earth a toxic waste dump. ~ Frederick Lenz

It does not matter whether I am in Hong Kong or Sao Paolo - people always want to talk about toxic bosses and what to do about them. ~ Srikumar Rao

Even the most beautiful things can be toxic. ~ Jodi Picoult

It wasn't good. It was good in the beginning and I held on to that. ~ Dominic Riccitello

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic. ~ Jan Karon

SHAME-BASED FAMILIES AND MULTIGENERATIONAL ILLNESS One of the devastating aspects of toxic shame is that it is multigenerational. The secret and hidden aspects of toxic shame form the wellsprings of its multigenerational life. Since it is kept hidden, it cannot be worked out. Families are as sick as their toxic shame secrets. ~ John Bradshaw

Rising inequality is toxic to growth. High levels of inequality exclude people - both as innovators and customers - diminishing both innovation and demand. ~ Nick Hanauer

Furthermore, both Pennsylvania and New Jersey Departments of Environmental Protection have evaluated the sediment to be dredged and also found it to be not toxic. ~ Robert Brady

It is really exhausting to live in a dictatorship of 'Me', which is basically a tyranny of others. ~ Stefan Molyneux

A child, without toxic interference, will naturally become the person they are meant to be. André Chevalier ~ Nikki Sex

The way I see it, living in New Jersey is a challenge, what with the toxic waste and the eighteen wheelers and the armed schizophrenics. Connie Rosolli ~ Janet Evanovich

That's the thing about toxic relationships. They aren't always toxic. They give us moments of happiness that we wish would last a lifetime. Those are the moments we cling onto. You convince yourself that there is enough love, underneath all of the chaos and mayhem you created in each other's lives. You tell yourself that maybe there's enough love left to make things work. And this made you question every little thing, including yourself. Maybe it wasn't just him that was toxic. Maybe I was toxic to myself by continually opening the same closed doors, very well knowing there was nothing good behind them. ~ Finding Bohemia

Energy vampires prey on others because they are in pain, and their behavior is a disguised cry for help. However, the important thing to remember is that you are not responsible for resolving their issues. While you can offer help to an energy vampire, it is ultimately their responsibility to sort our their struggles. ~ Aletheia Luna

I felt an inner peace and softness. My Berlin Wall had been cracked; the toxic relationship between me and that critical voice had been severed. ~ Penny De Villiers

Shame is internalized when one is abandoned. Abandonment is the precise term to describe how one loses one's authentic self and ceases to exist psychologically. ~ John Bradshaw

Biologically inspired materials could revolutionize materials science. People looking at spider silk and abalone shells are looking for new ways to make materials better, cheaper, and with less toxic byproducts. ~ Janine Benyus

Some combinations of people are toxic, you know? You have to find the right one that isn't just going to explode into fiery ash and destruction. ~ Taylor Swift

Maintaining one's health in today's toxic rich environment requires proper rest, hydration, an abundant intake of nutrients, and regular internal cleansing practices ~ Gary Hopkins

If you've ever met an energy vampire (and you probably have), you'll get the distinct feeling that this person has an intense need to prey off the vitality of others. There is a kind of acute neediness present in energy vampires which can be quite overwhelming and depleting to those they come in contact with. ~ Mateo Sol

In many ways, our homes act as one big drain that, through our daily relationship with water, carries many toxic substances into our waterways and the environment. ~ Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

Toxic shame, the shame that binds us, is experienced as the all-pervasive sense that "I am flawed and defective as a human being." Toxic shame is no longer an emotion that signals our limits; it is a state of being, a core identity. Toxic shame gives you a sense of worthlessness, a sense of failing and falling short as a human being. Toxic shame is a rupture of the self with the self. It is like internal bleeding - exposure to oneself lies at the heart of toxic shame. A shame-based person will guard against exposing his inner self to others, but more significantly, he will guard against exposing himself to himself. Toxic shame is so excruciating because it is the painful exposure of the perceived failure of self to the self. In toxic shame the self becomes an object of its own contempt, an object that can't be trusted. As an object that can't be trusted, one experiences oneself as untrustworthy. ~ John Bradshaw

Don't let toxic people infect you with the fear of giving and receiving one of the most powerful forces in this world ... LOVE! ~ Yvonne Pierre

The American public is not aware that there might be potential allergenic and toxic reactions. With regular food, at least people know which foods they have an allergy to. ~ Jeremy Rifkin

Sometimes you are the only toxic person you need to cut off your life, and I hope that one day you will be brave enough to admit it … ~ Samiha Totanji

One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri. ~ Jim Carrey

I grew up in a very toxic home. ~ Bethenny Frankel

The crisis facing our boys today is not masculinity, rather it is toxic patriarchal hyper-masculinity. In many ways, our boys are constantly clashing within themselves between who they really are and who they are expected to be. The stress of guarding and protecting a false self creates a deep wound in the male psyche. ~ Melia Keeton Digby

This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough. ~ Jane Fonda

AZT was never meant to treat HIV. It was meant to treat cancer and, when it was discovered to be toxic, the drug companies stopped clinic trials of the drug because it was so toxic. Is this drug really one we want to use? ~ Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

I'm from New Jersey. I was born in toxic sludge. ~ Cassandra Clare

Culture is more important than vision. Some leaders have great vision, but have created a toxic culture where that vision will never happen. ~ Phil Cooke

When you peel back the glamorous veneer of the astronaut, you find that it is a really dangerous and biologically toxic job. ~ Steven Magee

Most of us believe that dirt is good for our kids, but some of us are wary of the grass in the parks, which may or may not have been treated with toxic chemicals. ~ Eula Biss

She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. ~ Beauty & The Beast (Disney's)

Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy. ~ John Lewis Lund

Narcissists are very retaliative if they believe another has achieved what they desire,
exposed their insecurities, or refused to be under their control. ~ Lorraine Nilon

It is your legal right to pursue the closure of the biologically toxic Space industry that is harming over seven billion people on planet Earth. ~ Steven Magee

When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

Toxic people sell you short. When you listen to them, you give them power, that's when you sell yourself short. ~ Tony Curl

You Cannot Escape Beauty And You Cannot Stop Being Attracted To It, Because Beauty Allures. Beauty Seduces. Beauty Wants You To Come Closer. ~ Trebbe Johnson

I do find that I'm drawn to people in my life, romantically or not, that have something to teach me. I'm drawn to people who I feel like I can learn from. I'm not really drawn to toxic people - I don't find myself discovering that someone in my life is toxic very often. But there is some sense of being changed by each person that I think I'm drawn to. ~ Emma Stone

Beauty is wasted on the self-absorbed. ~ Lorii Myers

If you take a look around this great big world, every beautiful thing that you see God created. ~ Heather Wolf

One out of six women are toxic with mercury. Mercury comes out of coal plants and chlorine plants. I am toxic, I deal with symptoms, children are born with, you know, autism - there is an epidemic in this country. This is like, the air that we breath. ~ Daphne Zuniga

Materialism is toxic to happiness, and we are losing our connection to the natural world. ~ James Gustave Speth