Gelder Quotes

#1. Forsaking the shield of insensibility she had tightly woven over herself during her years as a gelder, she unbarred her heart. She invited him in.

Chris Lange

#2. All the skills from DBT glom together, a mass of acronyms without any meaning. I pull out the DBT books and paw through the pages. Something has to help. Then I find these words: 'The lives of suicidal, borderline individuals are unbearable as they currently being lived.

Kiera Van Gelder

#3. It doesn't take a lot to make me happy. I take pleasure from everything I do.

Oprah Winfrey

#4. I will not resign because my resignation will not resolve anything.

Thaksin Shinawatra

#5. the butterfly of Christmastown?

Ann Gelder

#6. I need them to be aware and present with me in the midst of the storm, not just tell me what to do.

Kiera Van Gelder

#7. Thirty seconds of pure awareness is a long time, especially after a lifetime of escaping yourself at all costs.

Kiera Van Gelder

#8. It is pleasing to be pointed at with the finger and to have it said, "There goes the man."
[Lat., At pulchrum est digito monstrari et dicier his est.]

Aulus Persius Flaccus

#9. [Mike] Bloomberg aides says he's more likely to run if it's [Donald]Trump or [Ted] Cruz versus Sanders, then there would, presumably, be space in the middle for him. But he's less likely to go if Hillary Clinton is the nominee.

Mara Liasson

#10. An inner ease spreads inside me. Such is the power of acceptance and understanding from other people, the power of validation

Kiera Van Gelder

#11. recognizing how even poison is a form of medicine when used the right way.

Kiera Van Gelder

#12. Ironically, the word "borderline" has become the most perfect expression of my experience - the experience of being in two places at once: disordered and perfect.

Kiera Van Gelder

#13. Successful people ask for the criticism of others and consider its merit.

Ray Dalio

#14. It's strange how in the craziest moments you reach for normal things like handshakes and formal introductions.

Corey Ann Haydu

#15. We do not deserve to be trapped in hell. It isnt our fault.

Kiera Van Gelder

#16. Don't ever be afraid to ask any question.

Richard Eyre

#17. I'm an accidental entrepreneur.

Natalie Massenet

#18. Those green eyes mocked her, and the ass leaned into her blade as if daring her to slice him

Tamara Hughes

#19. I'm so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything, including myself.

Kiera Van Gelder

#20. Yet I also recognize this: Even if everyone in the world were to accept me and my illness and validate my pain, unless I can abide myself and be compassionate toward my own distress, I will probably always feel alone and neglected by others.

Kiera Van Gelder

#21. The church is missionary by nature because God through the Spirit calls, creates, and commissions the church to communicate to the world that the redemptive reign of God has broken into human history.

Craig Van Gelder

#22. Of course, no-one thinks the EU is perfect. In recent years, the pace of social reform has slowed. But staying in offers the chance to rebuild a vision of Europe for workers, regardless of the passport they hold.

Frances O'Grady

#23. Here it is about gentlemen of fortune. They lives rough, and they risk swinging, but they eat and drink like fighting-cocks, and when a cruise is done, why, it's hundreds of pounds instead of hundreds of farthings in their pockets.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#24. I believe in the importance of sincerity and emotion and honesty in TV, even when it's goofy comedy.

Michael Schur

#25. But what if you simply don't have a solid self to return to - if the way you are is seen as basically broken? And what if you can't conceive of "normal" or "healthy" because pain and loneliness are all you remember?

Kiera Van Gelder

#26. Calculated globally, human society consumes the equivalent of 400 years' worth of ancient solar energy (expressed in terms of the net primary productivity of plants during previous geological eras) each year through our use of fossil fuels.

Mark Lynas

#27. All you want is love and belonging, and your very existence depends on it. But when you get it, you have no existence except that love; there's still no you.

Kiera Van Gelder

#28. Connection gives us our life, yet it also threatens to take it from us.

Kiera Van Gelder

#29. For those of us with BPD, entering into a shared experience means passing through the ring of fire that leaves us feeling even more burned - and in this case branded with a label no one would ever choose to wear.

Kiera Van Gelder

#30. Accepting a psychiatric diagnosis is like a religious conversion. It's an adjustment in cosmology, with all its accompanying high priests, sacred texts, and stories of religion. And I am, for better or worse, an instant convert.

Kiera Van Gelder