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

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.

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

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

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

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.

My journal has become a paper mirror, a topographic map to my mind. It is where I go to sort out confusion and decipher the invisible.

Only his eyes remain the same. Bronze, red-gold, like iron brought to blazing heat.

I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.

To be an artist, one must . . . never shirk from the truth as he understands it, never withdraw from life

Sense will always have attractions for me.

My approach is just being conscious of everything.

Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction.

An angry enemy encroached on our lives, our territory, our freedom and our independence.

It is important to make a dream of life and a dream reality.

Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.