Top 20 Kiera Van Gelder Quotes
#1. When wealth is lost, little is lost. When health is lost, something is lost, but when character is lost ALL is lost!
Cheyenne Mitchell
#2. 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
#3. I wanted to stop her; in the darkness and silence we occasionally managed to throw off our despair for a while by making each other forget.
Stanislaw Lem
#4. Thirty seconds of pure awareness is a long time, especially after a lifetime of escaping yourself at all costs.
Kiera Van Gelder
#5. Mine is a story of craving.
Each memory makes me a child again.
Wally Lamb
#6. An inner ease spreads inside me. Such is the power of acceptance and understanding from other people, the power of validation
Kiera Van Gelder
#7. recognizing how even poison is a form of medicine when used the right way.
Kiera Van Gelder
#8. 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
#9. We do not deserve to be trapped in hell. It isnt our fault.
Kiera Van Gelder
#10. 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
#11. dream with the little devils for dream with the little angels', a common saying in Spanish. I instantly
Nina Lautner
#12. I'm so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything, including myself.
Kiera Van Gelder
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. Connection gives us our life, yet it also threatens to take it from us.
Kiera Van Gelder
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.
Rick Perry
#20. Fashion does seem to have a '20s comeback every few seasons, and I completely see why. It's a very feminine look: the fabrics and the shapes are very pretty and distinctive.
Joanne Froggatt
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