[Beanbag0]

Hi all I'm looking for some quotes for my wall, preferably about strength and overcoming anorexia?

[CANDC]

One I used to overcome my low esteem and judgment

"What did I do right?"

[tree7car]

These are some of my favorites:

"I don't claim to know much except soon as you start to make room for the parts that aren't you it gets harder to bloom in a garden of love." -Sara Bareillas

"We wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete had damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun. Well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how." -Tupac Shakur

Risk--by Anais Nin
And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more painful
than the risk
it took
to Blossom

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond imagination. It is our light more than our darkness which scares us. We ask ourselves who are we to be brilliant, beautiful, talented, and fabulous. But honestly, who are you to not be so? You are a child of God, small games do not work in this world. For those around us to feel peace, it is not example to make ourselves small. We were born to express the glory of god that lives in us. It is not in some of us, it is in all of us. While we allow our light to shine, we unconsciously give permission for others to do the same. When we liberate ourselves from our own fears, simply our presence may liberate others." - Marianne Williamson

We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit. - e.e. cummings

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

Smart people are very good at rationalizing things that they came to believe for non-smart reasons.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority.
The test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Though you cannot return to the past to make a brand new start,
you can always make a brand new start now, and a brand new ending.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Maybe we're not supposed to be happy. Maybe gratitude has nothing to do with joy. Maybe being grateful means recognizing what you have for what it is. Appreciating small victories. Admiring the struggle it takes simply to be human. Maybe we're thankful for the familiar things we know. And maybe we're thankful for the things we'll never know. At the end of the day, the fact that we have the courage to still be standing is reason enough to celebrate.

This above all,--to thine own self be true;
and it must follow, as the night the day,
thou canst not then be false to any man
-Hamlet

No one can pull you back from anywhere. You save yourself or you remain unsaved.