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

  Meister Eckhart

  Men, Doors, Self

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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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• 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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• I was anorexic in the 60s and 70s, although it wasn't called anorexia then. I thought people would be nicer to me if I looked very small and delicate, so food wasn't high on my agenda. But it is now.

  Marianne Faithfull

  People, Would Be, Agendas

  "Marianne Faithfull: 'My father belonged to a commune, and the food was always ghastly'". Interview with John Hind, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2011.

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• What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Love, Heart, Dark

  The House of the Seven Gables ch. 11 (1851)

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• I used to refer to myself as a 'theoretical anorexic,' just as crazy when it came to body image, but saved by a lack of self-discipline. My daughters do everything better than I do - they're smarter, more beautiful, happier. What if they end up better at anorexia, too?

  Ayelet Waldman

  Beautiful, Daughter, Mother

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• Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

  Emily Saliers

  Fall, Eye, Eating Disorder

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• Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

  Pythagoras

  Stars, Self Esteem, Self Worth

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• I am, uh ... a 6 foot tall woman, I feel like I'm a healthy size, I'm not anorexic; and I feel that people who aren't anorexic are punished ... for not being anorexic.

  Kristen Johnston

  Feet, People, Healthy

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• I was anorexic-bulimic when I was 16-17. It was a top secret that time, but these things always are.

  Peta Wilson

  Secret, Peta, Anorexics

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• Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer.

  Kate Moss

  Cancer, Lung Cancer, Lungs

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

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• Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

  Germaine Greer

  Beautiful, Self Esteem, Achievement

  "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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• We turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how not to need.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Skeletons, Eating Disorder, Might

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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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• 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 unwittingly became sort of this anorexia spokeswoman.

  Tracey Gold

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• I had a very public battle with anorexia.

  Tracey Gold

  Battle

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