Thin Is the New Happy Quotes

“Perfectionism really is the enemy of happiness and success.”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy

“Positive thoughts about life were connected to love and success. If A equaled C, and B equaled C, then A and B had to be the same. Food was life.”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy

“When a woman walks out in the morning with confidence--she loves her heels, her dress, she thinks she looks great--her day will be better. She'll be nicer to the people she interacts with. They'll have a better day. And so on, and so on. You're creating joy and spreading it around. Is that insignificant?”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy

“Grace, personality, and intelligence are the things you love about yourself on the inside--and you can love them about yourself on the outside, too.”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy

“The ability to laugh at yourself is a sign of higher intelligence.”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy

“Basically, it doesn't take all that much physical effort to shape up your mind.”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy

“Excess weight was the physical accumulation of past hurts, insults, disappointments, and resentments that, once released from the mind and soul, were freed from the body.”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy

“Strivers are driven to test themselves over and over again. They don’t rest on their accomplishments. Success urges them to reach higher, take bigger risks. If they fail, they pull themselves back up. Ambition is the essence of human evolution. Strivers adapt to their changing environment.”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy

“Your closet should me you feel giddy, like you’re surrounded by beauty. It should be your happy place, giving you a sense of safety and competence.”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy

“What I’m telling you is that personal style, dressing well and caring about your clothes, is one simple way to make you feel better, to lighten the load. Why shouldn’t you take advantage? Given how hard life can be, why not do the easy part?”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy

“If you have only one chance to telegraph a message via the way you dress, why not make it a good impression”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy

“Your look is visual currency.”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy

“Lock in on the eyes--not the stomach, or the thighs--and make a vow to yourself to define existence by generating thoughts, feelings, and actions that increase the amount of joy and happiness in your head, your home, and the world.”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy

“Be good to your body, because it's the only one you're ever going to get.”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy

“She seemed to represent a conscious choice between (1) a healthy, strong future of thriving and surviving and (2) a slothful existence of inactivity, illness, decline, and dependence.”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy

“You have to love your body as a living organism, not hate it as a flawed decorative statue.”
― Valerie Frankel, Thin Is the New Happy