Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn't be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn't.

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.

Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.

Recovery is about making room for the real me to exist.

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times.

Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I'm actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.

Ironically, this physically weak feeling signifies that I’m actually getting stronger. I know from my past that I will ultimately feel strong if I just sit with the feeling and experience it.

Being thin created intense anxiety that I wouldn’t be able to maintain that weight for life, and I couldn’t.

Real hope combined with real action has always pulled me through difficult times. Real hope combined with doing nothing has never pulled me through.

Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.

The horror was this: the others.

There will always be detours in the fascinating game called life. Find the path to your heart’s desires, and stay on course.

A great business at a fair price is superior to a fair business at a great price.

At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.

Sun of my soul, thou Savior dear, It is not night if thou be near. Oh, may no earthborn cloud arise To hide thee from thy servant's eyes.

We don’t need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.

I mostly drive around in a Fiat 500 TwinAir, and that's a pretty small car!

The great source of pleasure is variety.

History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men.

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England's pleasant pastures seen?