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- [I] learned ... that friends are a good source of food and soul when one has not yet gotten the hang of cooking or living…
- Anorexia and bulimia seem to be getting much more common in boys, men, and women of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds; they are also becoming…
- I have a type of bipolar that swings up and down all day long. There are significant mood swings within a day, within a week,…
- It's really interesting to me how all of us can experience the exact same event, and yet come away with wildly disparate interpretations of what…
- My relationships with both my mother and father are good. We spent several difficult years hashing over the problems and the past, and worked out…
- And so I am feeling numb. It's a curious feeling, and I get it all the time. My attention to the world around me disappears,…
- I am feeling fine. I remember these words and recite them. These are the things you say when asked how you are. After all, it…
- It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength…
- There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are.…
- You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you…
- Bear in mind, people with eating disorders tend to be both competitive and intelligent. We are incredibly perfectionistic. We often excel in school,athletics,artistic pursuits. We…
- Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression of meals. They…
- I was perpetually grief-stricken when I finished a book, and would slide down from my sitting position on the bed, put my cheek on the…
- But in some ways, the most significant choices one makes in life are done for reasons that are not all that dramatic, not earth-shaking at…
- All of us have theories about the world and about ourselves. We will go to great lengths to prove ourselves right because it keeps the…
- • This seems impossible to me. It seems biologically impossible to stay the same size, although I must. It seems one must always be either…
- Madness is not what it seems. Time stops. All my life I've been obsessed with time, its motion and velocity, the way it works you…
- Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I started making up…
- Crazy isn´t always what they say it is. It´s not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf, wandering around with…
- In her presence, I was reminded again of why I was an anoretic: fear. Of my needs, for food, for sleep, for touch, for simple…
- The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I…
- And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.
- ...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed,…
- The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.
- All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance,…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle