Social media is like crack-immediately gratifying and hugely addictive.
Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times.
To stay in recovery, you must be responsible for finding your own motivation. Remember, motivation may not be easy to come by at first. It will probably be a very small, timid part inside of you. When you find it, let that part be in charge. Let the minority rule and lead you to a life you never dreamed was possible
I went from really hating my body, to disliking it, to accepting it but not exactly liking it, then accepting it and liking it, and now I love it.
I would not encourage you to go through the sweat, blood, and tears of the recovery process only to reach some kind of mediocre state where you were just 'managing' the illness. It is possible to live without Ed.
Recovery is about making room for the real me to exist.
Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.
They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.
Atticus said that Jem was trying hard to forget something, but what he was really doing was storing it away for a while, until enough time passed. Then he would be able to think about it and sort things out. When he was able to think about it, Jem would be himself again.
For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all.
It is a good thing to know what it is to be poor, and a better thing if you can do it in company.