Knowing someone that is suffering from anorexia can be difficult to experience. From the long term physical complications that can occur to building up a strong self image, these quotes about anorexia recovery will help you provide support for the individual in pain.
“A woman is beautiful when her passions define her more than her looks.”
“Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.”
“Beauty is in the way you hold yourself. It is how you treat people. The way you love. It’s self acceptance. Beauty is in your soul.”
“Beauty starts in your head, not in your mirror.”
“Body love is about self-worth in general. It’s more than our physical appearance.”
“Don’t let the fear of relapsing keep you from recovering.”
“Don’t let your mind bully your body.”
“Eating disorders are serios mental illness, not lifestyle choices.”
“Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.”
“Focus on how far you’ve come, not how far you have to go.”
“Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn’t obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin.”
“Hating your body will never get you as far as loving it will.”
“I can’t think of any better representation of beauty than someone who is unafraid too be herself.”
“I’d rather be strong and happy than be what society thinks is thin and perfect and be miserable.”
“If all girls were taught how to love each other fiercely instead of how to complete with each other and hate their own bodies, what a different and beautiful world we would live in.”
“If only our eyes saw souls instead of bodies, how very different our ideas of beauty would be.”
“Imagine if we obsessed about the things we loves about ourselves.”
“Losing weight is not your life’s work, and counting calories is not the call of your soul. You surely are destined for something much greater.”
“Make peace with the mirror and watch your reflection change.”
“Mirrors are just glass and you are more than that.”
“No scale can measure how much we are loved or how incredibly precious we are.”
“She began to measure herself in contentment and laughter rather than inches and pounds.”
“She tries her hardest to look good. But she still feels ugly.”
“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful for the way she thought, for that sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loves. She was beautiful for her ability to make other people smile.”
“The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance.”
“The dinner table is a battle field where warriors defeat the eating disorder one bite at a time.”
“The food you choose to eat or not eat does not make you good or bad.”
“The size of our body has nothing to do with your worth nothing.”
“There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn’t matter anymore.”
“To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.”
“We get so worried about being pretty. Let’s be pretty kind. Pretty funny. Pretty smart. Pretty strong.”
“Weight does not dictate your worth.”
“When you starve yourself you feed your demons.”
“You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.”
“You don’t have to look like you have an eating disorder to have one.”
There are many must know facts about anorexia that you need to know for combating an eating disorder and getting treatment.
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