Affliction Quote by Jane Austen

“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions.  A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction,…

— Jane Austen

“Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has as good a right to be in deep affliction,…

— Jane Austen

Where there is much general deformity nature has often, perhaps generally, accorded some one bodily grace even in over-measure. So, no doubt, with the…

— John Frederick Boyes

Size without shape is grotesque.

— Vince Gironda

You have to stop registering size with negativity. The biggest body can be absolutely beautiful.

— Gok Wan

Its not the size of a person thats really matter; its size WITHIN a person thats really matter the most.

— Wazim Shaw

It's not the appearance that binds you, it's the attachment to the appearance that binds you.

— Tilopa

I think no virtue goes with size.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The most uncouth of our afflictions is to despise our being. Rather than trying to cut ourselves in two, we should cease waging civil…

— Alain de Botton

There is no misery quite so wearing as the misery of a false position. It seems to slay the body and the soul.

— Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.

— Rebecca Solnit

I, the lone inhabitant of my body and life, am inescapably large to myself, but also ridiculously, inconceivably small.

— Maggie Shipstead