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1 " Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life. "
― Portia de Rossi
2 " I don't know where this pressure came from. I can't blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than-A grades she felt there was no need to tell anybody about. But not acknowledging the effort that ended in a less than perfect result impacted me as a child. If I didn't win, then we wouldn't tell anyone that I had even competed to save us the embarrassment of acknowledging that someone else was better. Keeping the secret made me think that losing was something to be ashamed of, and that unless I was sure I was going to be the champion there was no point in trying. And there was certainly no point to just having fun. "
― Portia de Rossi , Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
3 " Playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. Noone can be any one thing all the time. "
4 " I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die. "
5 " The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford. "
6 " Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself. "
7 " When it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when I truly hate myself. "
8 " You treat me better than I've ever treated myself. "
9 " Writing to her, I was no longer lonely... I could tolerate anything as long as I had a notepad and a pen and could pour my heart out to her in these letters. "
10 " You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering. "
11 " Recovery feels like shit. It didn't feel like I was doing something good; it felt like I was giving up. It feels like having to learn how to walk all over again. "
12 " Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word. "
13 " Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have. "
14 " True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be. "
15 " Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone. "
16 " And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone. "
17 " There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed. "
18 " Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like. "
19 " Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing. "
20 " I highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life. "
