Eating Disorder 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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• Binge eating is another eating disorder that people really don't realize is a problem.

  Demi Lovato

  People, Problem, Realizing

  Source: www.glamour.com

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

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Anorexia, Apathy, Dignity

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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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 society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

  Tipper Gore

  Strong Women, Self, Suffering

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

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

  Marcel Proust

  Inspirational, Anorexia, Tears

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

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• Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.

  Karolina Kurkova

  Love Yourself, Loving Yourself, Self Love

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• Food can become such a point of anxiety - not because it's food, but just because you have anxiety. That's how eating disorders develop.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Food, Anxiety, Eating

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

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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, Anorexia, Might

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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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• Part of treatment for drugs and alcohol is you abstain from these, but with eating disorders you can't abstain from food so the treatment is longer than drugs and alcohol.

  Carre Otis

  Ice Cream, Alcohol, Drug

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• I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.

  Louis C. K.

  Hate, Food, Comedian

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• I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's worthy of life and that her life has meaning. You can overcome and get through anything.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Girl, Wish

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think sometimes what happens is that all of this feeling out of control manifests itself in trying to control your body; whether it's an eating disorder or talking about getting your nose fixed, as if that's going to be the solution to all the pressure.

  Susan Sarandon

  Thinking, Talking, Feelings

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. November 1, 2004.

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• Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.

  Demi Lovato

  Lifestyle Choices, Serious, Mental Illness

  Twitter post from Mar 2, 2012

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• Eating disorders can have serious medical and psychological consequences which, left unchecked, can kill. Parents should address this issue and ask their children to discuss how they feel about themselves.

  Tipper Gore

  Children, Issues, Parent

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

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• People with eating disorders tend to be very diametrical thinkers – everything is the end of the world, everything rides on this one thing, and everyone tells you you're very dramatic, very intense, and they see it as an affectation, but it´s actually just how you think. It really seems to you that the sky will fall if you are not personally holding it up. On the one hand, this is sheer arrogance; on the other hand, this is a very real fear. And it isn't that you ignore the potential repercussions of your actions. You don't think there are any. Because you are not even there.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Real, Fall, Thinking

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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 don't believe you have to have eating disorders and mental illness to screw up.

  Kirstie Alley

  Believe, Screw Ups, Mental Health

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• If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

  Courteney Cox

  Weight, Diets, Ifs

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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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• 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, Anorexia, Proud

  "One". Book by Richard Bach, 1988.

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