Anorexia Quotes

• All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

  Michelangelo

  Happiness, Success, Hope

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• The outward man is the swinging door; the inner man is the still hinge.

  Meister Eckhart

  Men, Doors, Self

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• Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. And since we know least about ourselves, we are ready to believe all that is said about us. Hence the mysterious power of both flattery and calumny.

  Eric Hoffer

  Believe, Knowledge, Calumny Is

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Eating Disorder, Apathy, Dignity

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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• Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Sadness

  'Self-Dependence' (1852) l. 31

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• The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Zero, Numbers, Tennis

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.183, Scholastic UK

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• Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.

  Karolina Kurkova

  Love Yourself, Loving Yourself, Self Love

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• It is often hard to bear the tears that we ourselves have caused.

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Tears, Eating Disorder

  Marcel Proust (1948). “The Maxims of Marcel Proust”

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• It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

  Voltaire

  Love, Self, Eating Disorder

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• I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Girl, Form, Breakdown

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• It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?

  Richard Bach

  Self, Eating Disorder, Proud

  "One". Book by Richard Bach, 1988.

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• You will miss her sometimes. Bear in mind she's trying to kill you. Bear in mind you have a life to live.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Missing, Mind, Eating Disorder

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• Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

  Tracey Gold

  Sick, Eating Disorder, Bulimia

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• There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Self Esteem, Mirrors, Laughing

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.208, Penguin

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• I've experienced the tabloids when I had anorexia.

  Tracey Gold

  Tabloids

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• Where do you go to get anorexia?

  Shelley Winters

  Inspiring, Food, Cooking

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• I don't want to feel I'm responsible for anorexia across the country.

  Courteney Cox

  Country, Want, Responsible

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• I had a very public battle with anorexia.

  Tracey Gold

  Battle

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• Anorexia was there for me before I got into modeling, but because of the arena and the demands, the disease really got out of control for me. It's like being an alcoholic and going and being a bartender.

  Carre Otis

  Demand, Disease, Arena

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• Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

  Carre Otis

  Heart, Situation

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• When I was 19 years old, I came down with anorexia. I had it for about a year before it became public. And it had a lot to do with my self-esteem.

  Tracey Gold

  Self Esteem, Years, Self

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• I unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.

  Tracey Gold

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• I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)

  Mary Pipher

  Men, Thinking, Feet

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• In Hollywood, I'm obese. I'm considered a fat actress. I eat like a caveman. I'll be the only actress that doesn't have anorexia rumors! I'm never going to starve myself for a part. I'm invincible. I don't want little girls to be like "Oh, I want to look like Katniss, so I'm going to skip dinner!"

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Girl, Hate, Katniss

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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