It's been a difficult week. For me, a big part of ED is isolation, even from my own thoughts. Or, more accurately, from processing the endless barrage of thoughts. I was browsing through some great websites this weekend, and came across a wonderful collection of quotes. Some of them really reached me on an emotional level. (ED makes me cry. A lot. At everything. I hate admitting this. I never allow it to happen publicly. But I'm a mess.)
These are the ones that either stabbed my heart, made me laugh, gave me pause, or felt like they were pulled right from my own thoughts.
"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
C.S. Lewis
"Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away."
Robert Maynard Hutchins
"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."
Anaïs Nin
"One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
Bob Marley
"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
Charles M. Schulz
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
Maya Angelou
"we accept the love we think we deserve."
Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)
"Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
John Lennon
"I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
E.E. Cummings
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
Mark Twain
"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
Mark Twain
"I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles."
Audrey Hepburn
"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
Ernest Hemingway
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