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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• Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.

  Karolina Kurkova

  Love Yourself, Loving Yourself, Self Love

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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 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

  Anorexia, Apathy, Dignity

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.

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

  Voltaire

  Love, Self, Anorexia

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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, Anorexia, Bulimia

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• I think I just realized that having a problem - an eating disorder - it's not healthy and you can actually die from that. I realized it's not worth it and you just need to be healthy.

  Nicole Polizzi

  Thinking, Healthy, Needs

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

  Emily Saliers

  Fall, Eye, Anorexia

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• I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure.

  Emma Watson

  Inspirational, Beauty, Nice

  "10 Times Emma Watson Ruled At Life" by Ariel Nagi, www.seventeen.com. November 19, 2014.

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