Look at hopelessness in the face and say:
"We are simply not meant to be together."
Hold courage's hand and walk away.
"You're beautiful. It is society that is fucked!"
"Now I believe I am unique, sexy, worthy of love and beautiful WITHOUT my Eating Disorder."
"Life expands and contracts in direct relation to one's courage."
"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
~Maya Angelou~
"The hardest thing is facing yourself. It’s easier to shout ‘revolution’ and ‘power to the people’ than it is to look at yourself and try and find out what’s real inside you and what isn’t when you pull the wool over your own eyes. Your own hypocrisy, that’s the hardest thing, and that’s what I’m involved in."
~John Lennon~
"Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive."
~Josephine Hart~
"I don’t really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits."
~Anaïs Nin~
"Don't let it break you.
No matter how hard things get, life goes on."
"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love"
"I don't like the term 'victim.' One has 'survived' and is therefore a 'survivor.' If we view ourselves as victims, we remain victims. If we view ourselves as survivors, we become those who surpass such adversity"
"'Be like an angel. Don't leave her behind you. Continue
to give her that freedom. Beyond
mere loving give her the mercy of love. Give her
awareness of rivers. Around her heap the
boldness of skies. Through the heart-space perceived
throw her the birds.
[Cells unspeakable, unexpected cells]"
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"The most caring relationship you can ever have, is with yourself."
"I will stay with you tonight in case this corset gets too tight. And I will keep you company, 'cause that's what a sister should be"
"I'll learn to get by on little victories"
"Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow."
"One Bad Day In Recovery, Makes You Ever So Thankful And Appreciative For Those Good Moments In Recovery.
Freedom Comes When You Learn To Let Go.
If You Can Dream It, You Can Do It.
I'm Not Telling You It's Going To Be Easy, I'm Telling You It's Worth It.
It Doesn't Matter How Slow You Go, Just As Long As You Don't Stop."
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"So sorry you won't define me
Sorry you don't own me
Who are you to tell me
That I'm less than what I should be?"
"The only person standing in your way, is you."
"They say impossible,
They say it can't be done,
Can't break us down 'cause we're unstoppable,
They say 'too difficult',
That it could never work,
They think that we've been trying far too long,
But I know better"
"The healthy and strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he's got an abscess on his knee or in his soul."
"If the eye does not want to see, neither light nor glasses will help."
“Be kinder than necessary, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.”
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall......"
Health is not merely the absence of disease, it is the balance of mind, body and soul.
Hippocrates
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Finish each day and be done with it ... You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men (sic) - true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Author Unknown
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Robert Collier
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix
The future is not a result of choices among alternative paths offered by the present, but a place that is created --- created first in the mind and will, created next in activity. The future is not some place we are going to, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made, and the activity of making them changes both the maker and the destination.
John Schaar
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William James
Sometimes I go about in pity for myself, and all the while a great wind is bearing me across the sky.
Ojibwa saying
The more faithfully you listen to the voice within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside. And only a person who listens can speak.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao-Tzu
When I began to listen to poetry is when I began to listen to stones, and I began to listen to what the clouds had to say, and I began to listen to others. And what is most important for all of us, is to learn to listen to the soul, the soul of yourself, in here, but which is also the soul of everyone else.
The Native American poet Joy Harjo on PBS
When you do things from the soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Jelaluddin Rumi
There is a vitality, a life-force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open.
Martha Graham
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
Don't ask yourself what the world needs ... Ask yourself what makes you alive because what the world needs are people who have come alive.
Ranier Maria Rilke
Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire
And the day came when the risk to remain tight inside the bud was greater than the risk it took to bloom.
Anais Nin
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It's Never Too Late to Be What You Might Have Been. George Eliot
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright
Success is the good fortune that comes from aspiration, desperation, perspiration and inspiration.
Evan Esar
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
David Burns
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Alice Meynell
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Brian Tracy
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
Winston Churchill
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Lucretius
The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.
Plutarch
Press on! A better fate awaits thee.
Victor Hugo
