Eating Disorder Quotes - Page 4

• We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.

  Brené Brown

  Bullying, People, Addiction

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.67, Penguin

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• I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood.

  Tori Spelling

  Positive, Daughter, Role Models

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• The future depends on what we do in the present.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Success, Peace

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• Too many young girls have eating disorders due to low self-esteem and distorted body image. I think it's so important for girls to love themselves and to treat their bodies respectfully.

  Ariana Grande

  Beauty, Girl, Self Esteem

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• Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Life, Motivational, Faith

  Corrie Ten Boom (1985). “Jesus is Victor”, Fleming H Revell Company

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• Confidence comes not from always being right but from not
  fearing to be wrong.

  Peter McIntyre

  Motivational, Positive, Confidence

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• Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible

  Cherie Carter-Scott

  Love, Trust, Mistake

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• My words of encouragement for teen girls suffering with eating disorders, self-harm, anything... is to get help. It's the most important thing you can do for yourself, and it can change your life and potentially save your life.

  Demi Lovato

  Girl, Encouragement, Self Harm

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• Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

  Sherman Glenn Finesilver

  Failure, Recovery, Remember You

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• If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.

  Michael Elmore-Meegan

  Wall, Recovery, Wings

  "All Will be Well". Book by Michael Meegan, 2004.

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• We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

  Jean Guitton

  Self, Numbers, Anorexia

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• Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.

  Laurens van der Post

  Dream, Men, Self

  Laurens Van Der Post (1994). “Feather Fall: An Anthology”, Hodder & Stoughton

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• I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Self, Leaving, Anorexia

  Katherine Anne Porter (2014). “Flowering Judas and Other Stories: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.81, Library of America

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• Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love, Self, Anorexia

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 2, 1678.

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• Red flag of the eating disorder: the muffin. Keep your eye on the ladies with the muffins... and sometimes I'll just eat the muffin top.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Eye, Red Flags, Muffins

  "Janeane Garofalo". TV Special, August 23, 1997.

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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, Anorexia, Mind

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• I don't believe consumers want to see fuller-figured girls in ads. Because if they did they would refuse to buy the things they are seeing, and want to buy a different product. If people really want to see a change, they have to speak up on a daily basis to see that change. And I think that models who are suffering from an eating disorder, it is as sad to look at them as the person who is suffering from obesity or who is smoking outside their office or person who is drinking too much at the bar - everybody is suffering from something pretty much.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Girl, Drinking, Believe

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• Extreme picky eaters may have what's called Selective Eating Disorder. People with this experience physical and psychological discomfort over certain tastes, smells, textures.

  Emily Yoffe

  Smell, People, Texture

  "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.

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• It's hard with ballet because your aesthetic really is important. It's different from acting and from film. Nobody wants to watch somebody who is sickly thin. And it's interesting because I have danced with people who are ill, have eating disorders, and a light goes off within them.

  Amanda Schull

  Light, Interesting, People

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• Their [those with eating disorders'] task is to rescue themselves from a drive that is destroying them. Food embodies the false values that their own bodies refuse to assimilate, by which I mean that their bodies become edemic, bloated, allergic, or resort to vomiting the poison out. The unconscious body, and certainly the conscious body, will not tolerate the negative mother.

  Marion Woodman

  Mother, Mean, Vomiting

  "Addiction to Perfection". Book by Marion Woodman, 1982.

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• It's sad to hear that 1 in 3 girls have an eating disorder, because they're trying to be something that they think they need to be, when it's such a lie that they believe. Meanwhile all over the world there's people that are starving or dying of something crazy that we forget, and we think we're the only ones in this world.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Girl, Lying, Crazy

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• The more people talk about eating disorders, the more people get the real story about what they're like.

  Scarlett Pomers

  Real, People, Stories

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• You dont have to have an eating disorder to be happy or successful.

  Scarlett Pomers

  Successful, Eating, Disorder

  "Scary Skinny: The Dark Side of Childhood Fame". abcnews.go.com. April 4, 2007.

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• The stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking/stuffing/puking didn't make her skinny, it made her cry.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Skinny, Cry, Made

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2014). “Wintergirls”, p.87, Scholastic UK

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• When I was dealing with the eating disorder, I wanted to look like the stick-thin models, but then I started reading fitness magazines and seeing these girls with great bodies that weren’t too muscular.

  Torrie Wilson

  Girl, Reading, Looks

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