#image

The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#chilling #imagery #personification #beauty

The photographic image... is a message without a code. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#image #message #photographic #without

Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose! ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#dieting #fashion-designer #game #image #look

Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body. ↗

— Golda Poretsky

#body-mind #inspirational #self-love #diet

Often she dreamt she had two wings, and one was frightened, and one was happy. ↗

— Erin Bow

#dream-images #premonition #visions #dreams

A democratic civilization will save itself only if it makes the language of the image into a stimulus for critical reflection — not an invitation for hypnosis. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#images #mass-media #reflection #symbols #television

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. ↗

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

#pilgrimage #faith

There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#paul-elie #faith

I wasn't so inclined to tell anyone else in my family about my plan. It was very new and felt about as vulnerable as a day-old mouse, its eyelids still sealed shut. ↗

— Jeanne Ray

#family

...compulsive eating is basically a refusal to be fully alive. No matter what we weigh, those of us who are compulsive eaters have anorexia of the soul. We refuse to take in what sustains us. We live lives of deprivation. And when we can't stand it any longer, we binge. The way we are able to accomplish all of this is by the simple act of bolting -- of leaving ourselves -- hundreds of times a day. ↗

— Geneen Roth

#eating #eating-disorders #health #food