"Strive for adequacy and you will achieve perfection. Strive for perfection and you will never be adequate."

An honest view of the world from the perspective of a recovering anorexic and self-harmer.

Quotes

"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth." -William W. Purkey

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." -Maya Angelou


"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -Robert Frost


"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." -Albert Einstein


"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." -Anais Nin


"Better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie." -Khaled Hosseini


"The greatest success is successful self-acceptance." -Ben Sweet


"Not respecting yourself is the same as committing suicide at a slow rate." -Unknown


"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage." -Lao Tzu


"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." -Oscar Wilde


"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent' -Eleanor Roosevelt


"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." -Anais Nin


"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened." -Dr. Seuss


"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."  -Andre Gide


"Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can." -Nicholas Sparks


"When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile." -unknown


"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us." -Alexander Graham Bell


"Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower." -Hans christian Anderson


"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets." -Arthur Miller


"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." -George Bernard Shaw


"You cannot find peace by avoiding life." -Virginia Woolf


"Where there is love there is life." -Mahatma Gandhi


Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the pain on it you can." -Danny Kaye


"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." C. S. Lewis


"Life is to be enjoyed, not endured." -Gordon B. Hinckley


"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you." -A. A. Milne


"A friend is one who knows you and love you just the same." -Elbert Hubbard


"A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down." -Arnold H. Glasow


"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies." -Aristotle


"Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns all clean." -Maya Angelou


"Friends are born, not made."- Henry B. Adams


"We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving." -J.K. Rowling


"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all." -Walk Disney (Mulan)


"Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something." -William Goldman (The Princess Bride)


"The most important thing is to enjoy your life--to be happy-- it's all that matters." -Audrey Hepburn


"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his[her] calendar." -Robert Brault


"At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one has no choice." -Maya Angelou


"If you continue to do what you've always done, you will always get what you've got." -don't remember where this came from, possibly the AA handbook

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