Top 16 Quotes About Anorexia Recovery
#1. Somewhere I read that anorexia recovery is more painful for the sufferer than actively engaging in the eating disordered behaviours
Nancy Tucker
#2. The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.
Emma Woolf
#3. A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.
Emma Woolf
#4. The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the world.
Carol Lee
#5. So long as Christians remained members of a suspect society, subject to death, the boldest among them maintained that, since demons controlled the government and inspired its agents, the believer could gain freedom at their hands only in death.
Elaine Pagels
#6. Recovery feels like shit. It didn't feel like I was doing something good; it felt like I was giving up. It feels like having to learn how to walk all over again.
Portia De Rossi
#7. Anorexia cannot be cured by treating the physical symptoms alone; it is the mind which must be treated.
Lynn Crilly
#8. Picture to yourself, O fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her wig. Picture her to yourself, and ere you be old, learn to love and pray.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#9. Some singers want the audience to love them. I love the audience.
Luciano Pavarotti
#10. People, especially women, are judged on their bodies. And food, far from being a source of energy and enjoyment, becomes a battleground of guilt and shame and excess and deprivation. Everywhere we look, success and sexiness and happiness seem to belong to the thin.
Emma Woolf
#11. When I came to the industry, many directors like Krishna Vamsi and Puri Jagannath had encouraged me a lot. Krishna Vamsi is my mentor, and I admire him. That's why I give chances to new directors.
Ravi Teja
#12. Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.
Emma Woolf
#13. O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#14. And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:
Your seeds shall live in my body,
And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart,
And your fragrance shall be my breath,
And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.
Kahlil Gibran
