Recovery Quotes: Beauty

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

Confucius

Just because you are blind, and unable to see my beauty doesn't mean it does not exist.

Margaret Cho

Beauty - in projection and perceiving - is 99.9% attitude.

Grey Livingston

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. 

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The fact is, there really is no such thing as 'normal' - everybody's different, and that is the essence of their beauty

Kevin Aucoin

Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.

Ellen DeGeneres

Flawed, we're truly interesting, truly memorable, and yes, truly beautiful.

Justina Chen

Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty.

David Hume

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.

Steve Maraboli

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. 

Leo Tolstoy

There is no definition of beauty, but when you can see someone's spirit coming through, something unexplainable, that's beautiful to me.

Liv Tyler

People are more than just the way they look.

Madeleine L'Engle

Taking joy in living is a woman's best cosmetic.

Rosalind Russell

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you look closely at a tree you'll notice it's knots and dead branches, just like our bodies. What we learn is that beauty and imperfection go together wonderfully.

Matthew Fox

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be, because we are all what we choose.

Margaret Cho

You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable.

Steve Maraboli

To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.

Victoria Moran

There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.

Edgar Allan Poe

You don't have to be perfect to be pretty

Carson Kressley

Beauty comes in all sizes, not just size 5. 

Roseanne

The appearance of things changes according to the emotions; and thus we see magic and beauty in them, while the magic and beauty are really in ourselves.

 Kahlil Gibran

You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.

Steve Maraboli

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

John O'Donohue

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head.

Garrison Keillor

Glamour is a shooting star, it catches your eye, but fades away; beauty is the sun always brilliant day after day. 

Mike Dolan

Get Off The Scale!

You are beautiful. Your beauty, just like your capacity for life, happiness, and success, is immeasurable. Day after day, countless people across the globe get on a scale in search of validation of beauty and social acceptance.

Get off the scale! I have yet to see a scale that can tell you how enchanting your eyes are. I have yet to see a scale that can show you how wonderful your hair looks when the sun shines its glorious rays on it. I have yet to see a scale that can thank you for your compassion, sense of humor, and contagious smile. Get off the scale because I have yet to see one that can admire you for your perseverance when challenged in life.

It’s true; the scale can only give you a numerical reflection of your relationship with gravity. That’s it. It cannot measure beauty, talent, purpose, life force, possibility, strength, or love. Don’t give the scale more power than it has earned. Take note of the number, then get off the scale and live your life. You are beautiful!

Steve Maraboli

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

P.C. Cast

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

Khalil Gibran

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

Conrad Hall

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Maya Angelou

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.

Audrey Hepburn

As if you were on fire from within.

The moon lives in the lining of your skin.

Pablo Neruda

Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.

Sophia Loren

By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful!

Steve Maraboli,

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it, for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Marcus Aurelius

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Rabindranath Tagore

What you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful.

Scott Westerfeld

I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.

Drew Barrymore

The really magical things are the ones that happen right in front of you. A lot of the time you keep looking for beauty, but it is already there. And if you look with a bit more intention, you see it.

Vik Muniz

Beauty... when you look into a woman's eyes and see what is in her heart. 

Nate Dircks

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

But you are the eternity and you are the mirror.

Kahlil Gibran

That which is striking and beautiful is not always good, but that which is good is always beautiful.

Ninon de L'Enclos

I don't like standard beauty - there is no beauty without strangeness.

Karl Lagerfeld

See also: Self-Defining Personal Beauty

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Recovery Inspiration: Limitless

The ability to accept, forgive, and let-go allows us to move forwards, beyond the pain. Unburdened, we become limitless.
MrsM. 


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Recovery: Breathe, Believe, Begin

Take a moment to be silent and breathe. Let go of perceived impossibilities and believe. What you desire will be yours if only you begin. 
MrsM

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Eating Disorder Poetry: Eat, Please Eat.

Eat

Please eat

Let your body live

I know your mind is messy

I know the scale is hurting you        

Just eat

Eat

Let your self love

I know it feels like the end

I know you want to see bones

Eat ok?

Please just eat

Your bones will still be there

I promise they won't be crushed

I promise the fat won't hurt you

Eat

Put the food in

Let yourself smile again

Let yourself laugh

Stop starving

Eat

Deep down there is a little girl

She grew up way too fast

Let her out

Eat

She is starving

Under the fragile bones         

Under the bruises

Please eat

Eat

She needs you

You see her in pictures and dreams

She doesn't care what size her hips are

Eat

Pick up the fork

Let yourself fight

Let yourself have dreams

Eat     

Keep it down

Fight to live

Fight to follow your dreams

Fight for the self that wants to live

Let go

Eat

Written by Aria

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Recovery Quote: Your Struggle

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Don't let your struggle become your identity.

Ralston Bowles

Recovery Image: Start Your Day Right!

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Start your day right!
What are you filling your cup with?


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Recovery: Don't Fear The Storm

Don't fear the storm, rejoice instead in the flowers it wakes in its passing.
MrsM

Recovery: Letting Go Of What Was

Recovery is the process of letting go of what was in order to create what will be.
MrsM

The Decision To Try: Recovery Quote

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. 
Unknown

Spring Recovery Wreath

Choose recovery!

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Recovery: How Much Longer?

How much longer are you going to allow your value to be determined by your appearance? How much longer will you put off joy in wait of that one thing that will finally make you deserving? How much longer are you willing to deprive yourself of happiness because of a number, a history, a preconceived notion of beauty? How much longer?
MrsM

Inspirational Recovery: I'll Rise

Now you may shoot me with your words
You may cut me with your eyes
and I'll rise
I'll rise...
Out of the shacks of 
history's shame
Up from a past rooted 
in pain
I'll rise...
Ben Harper


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Recovery Inspiration: The Time Is Now...

The time is now to begin, to create, to do, to be.

Let go. Be resilient. Live each precious moment with abandon.

Embrace the miracle that you are.

Delight in the uniqueness of your being.

Rejoice in each day, each breath, each small wonder.

Celebrate your life! 

MrsM.

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Recovery: To Do List

To Do List
1). let go of negativity
2). be kind to myself
3). believe in myself
4). forgive
5). nourish my body
6). feed my soul
7). move forward
8). reach out
9). create change
10). count my blessings

Each Day's Journey

Each day's journey begins at a crossroad and I must choose which way I will travel.
MrsM



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Recovery Inspiration: I Choose Recovery

I choose recovery because I'm worth it!


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1993: An Eating Disorders Poem

1993

 Has it been that long?

The miles I ran then,

 to burn off the

 smidgen of cookie that I

 failed to purge back up.

The hammer that rested

against my heart

heavier by the hour

as I climbed through life.

The salt and vitamins

and fluids my body lost

12 times a day.

The grief I lacked the

courage to stare down.

The humiliation

and relief,

when finally caught

in the act.

The help I got

and didn't know I deserved.

The work and sweetness of life.

By: Dana Esau

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Recovery: What Are You Afraid Of?

Does the thought of recovery fill you with fear?
If so, you are not alone. It's really quite common to feel this way.

Why, when we know something is good for us, do we feel afraid of it? 

The reasons vary. Individual experiences come into play. Reasons can range from simple to complicated, making it difficult to narrow it down to one, simple answer. When an eating disorder is also part of the equation, the whys can become even more complicated. Change and control, though, are major factors for almost everyone.

Change is scary. You're taking a risk. You're leaving behind familiar territory for the unknown. There's comfort in the familiar, even when the familiar is a horrible place to be, because you know it well. The ins, the outs, the lows, the highs ... there's not much that can surprise you, not much to catch you off guard and throw you off kilter.

Fear of losing what little control you have can be scary, too. How can you control the unknown? You may have mastered controlling and navigating your current situation so well that the thought of relinquishing that control may feel too scary to even contemplate. But...

You must surrender your fears.

It's not easy to let go, even when what we're holding on to is what we most need to let go of. But, letting go is necessary to achieve change and change is necessary to achieve recovery. We have to be willing to venture out of our comfort zone and let go of what currently is, in order to begin creating what can be.
  
"The only way out is through."
  
So how do you let go despite the fear? 

With practice and patience. Acknowledge your fear. Recognize it for what it truly is, and then move forward regardless. Each time you deny your fear the chance to be in charge you gain confidence and courage, making the next time a little bit easier. Soon, what you once thought impossible, becomes reality.

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.   
Eleanor Roosevelt

Here are some suggestions and links to help with the process:

• Keep your thoughts and words positive. Use positive, encouraging self-talk.
• Visualize the change you desire in a positive light.
• Believe in your ability to overcome your fears, to change, and to recover.
• Have faith. 
• Make a 2 column list. On one side list what you're afraid of, the other side list why that fear is invalid (or how to let it go).
• Seek reinforcements (counseling, mentoring, organizations, people in recovery, supportive family and friends, recovery sites and forums)
• Stay honest with yourself and others. 
• Be kind and patient with yourself. Change takes time. Recovery takes time.
• Get involved in something creative (writing, sketching, dance, doodling, painting, crafts,...). It gives you something positive to put your energy into and is a great outlet for stress and anxiety. 
• Remember the recovery sayings; "Fake it 'til you make it," and "Act as if". Doing this gives you a taste of what it feels like to achieve the change you're seeking. It sets your mind on track. (It doesn't mean to lie to yourself, or others, in an attempt to deceive)
• Journal.
• Use affirmations throughout the day and at bedtime.
• Choose a mantra to say to yourself whenever you're feeling less than brave (example: I am not my fear. I am capable of moving past these feelings. I can accomplish anything I set my mind to. I believe in myself). Repeat, repeat, repeat.
• Surround yourself with positive influences. 
• Create a recovery sound track of music that makes you feel good. 
• Create a recovery feel good image file. Fill it with things that make you feel good, strong, serene. (Do not use anything that relates to the body, weight, or appearance in any way). 
• Take care of yourself every day.
• Create a Relapse Prevention Plan. 
•  Give yourself credit when you make even the smallest progress. Each positive step is a victory. Celebrate it!
• When you feel overwhelmed, turn it over to your higher power. 

 Recovery Is Possible! You are capable, worthy, and deserving of it!


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Recovery Inspiration: Happiness

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

Henry David Thoreau

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Live The Life You Deserve

When you stop letting yourself be defined by outside forces; when you refuse to compare yourself to others in order to determine your worth, when you no longer allow your past to choose the course of your future, when you realize that who you are is more important than how you look... Then you will begin to live the life you truly deserve.

MrsM