Van Gelder Quotes

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

Kiera Van Gelder

#2. Strive for balance in your life. You are the heart and soul of your business so take care of yourself.

Joey A. Concepcion

#3. With a smile that glow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue.

John Milton

#4. 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

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

Kiera Van Gelder

#6. As you get older, you suffer fools less easily. That's why there's all those cranky character actors. I'm an exception. I'm a sweetheart.

Willem Dafoe

#7. [On the movie American Hot Wax:] A plot so thin you could thread a needle with it.

Janet Maslin

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

Kiera Van Gelder

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

Kiera Van Gelder

#10. I call all chefs 'cooks.' They're all cooks. That's what we do, we cook. You're a chef when you're running a kitchen.

Tom Colicchio

#11. 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

#12. I kissed her, because 1) when you're a demigod going into battle, every kiss might be your last, and 2) I like kissing her.

Rick Riordan

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

Kiera Van Gelder

#14. 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

#15. Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

Edwin Muir

#16. When I saw all those other drivers, I realized that they wanted to win that money just as much as I did. But I didn't have to worry. A tire came off my car and I was lucky I got it off the track.

Buck Baker

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. I want to get away from the high school thing and do other types of roles.

Shannon Elizabeth

#20. There is a lot to life, and a lot more than just television to life.

Bryant Gumbel

#21. 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

#22. I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.

Becki Newton

#23. 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

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

Kiera Van Gelder

#25. 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

#26. Fact. Of course, she always went and spoiled the appeal by opening her mouth. In his humble experience, the world had yet to produce a more vexingly verbose female.

Gail Carriger

#27. 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