Eating Disorders: Inspirational Recovery Quotes #5

Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Mark Victor Hansen

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
Ben Stein

In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.

Michael Korda

You can't pick the hand you're dealt, but you can choose how you play your cards.
T. H

Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.
Jerry Gilles

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Edward Teller

It's not who you are that holds you back, it's who you think you're not.
Anonymous

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.
Frank Loyd Wright

Flowers grow out of darker moments.
Corita Kent

Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness, depression.
Bertrand Wilbertforce

Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Ralph Hodgson

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It's not what you go through that defines you; you can't help that. It's what you do AFTER you've gone through it that really tests who you are.
Kwame Floyd

The vision that you glorify in your mind, the ideal that you enthrone in your heart - this you will build your life by, and this you will become.
James Allen

Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Dr. David Schwartz

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
Dale Carnegie

Prepare your mind to receive the best that life has to offer.
Ernest Holmes

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bernard Williams

Listen to the mustn'ts child.
Listen to the don'ts.
Listen to the shouldn't haves,
the impossibles, the won'ts.
Listen to the never haves,
then listen close to me.
Anything can happen child.
Anything can be.
Shel Silverstein

See also Using Affirmations

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