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.

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.

I left myself out of humanity by focusing on differences. This isolation only strengthened Ed” (17)

Fruits of the spirit in the man attract others to him.

What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It’s having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.

It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.

Feeling good is the primary intention

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

If we believe that the universe is unfriendly and that our very souls are in danger, peace will be elusive at best.

Desire is a teacher: When we immerse ourselves in it without guilt, shame, or clinging, it can show us something special about our own minds that allows us to embrace life fully.

Mark Twain said, The right word is to the nearly right word as lightning is to the lightning bug. Fill your book with lightning.

Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes.

I should like to underline: no people, no country, in which a Communist dictatorship has been established, ever found its way out of it.