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Jenni Schaefer

"Intense pain often pushed me to make changes. The pain of the eating disorder pushed me into recovering from eating-disordered behaviors, and then the emotional turmoil I experienced without those behaviors (not knowing how to cope with perfectionism, feelings, and life in general) took me even further, so that I ultimately found serenity."

Source : Jenni Schaefer (2009). “Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life”, p.5, McGraw Hill Professional

Jenni Schaefer

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“And suddenly I realize that although I've never thought about being in love with Nick before, all the right ingredients are there. I fancy him. I like him. He's my friend. He makes me laugh. I love being with him. And I start to feel all sort of warm and glowy, and screw the other stuff. Screw the stuff about him having no money, and living in a bedsit, and not being what I thought I wanted. I'm just going to go with this and see where it ends up. I mean, no one says I have to marry the guy, for God's sake.”

Source : Jane Green (2001). “Mr. Maybe”, p.471, Broadway Books
“Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.”
“Sometimes I wonder what it will be like to look back on all this. Whether it will seem real.”
“Jesus showed patience and love to all who came to Him seeking relief for their physical, emotional, or spiritual illnesses and who felt discouraged and downtrodden.”
“I seek strength, not to be greater than other, but to fight my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself”

Source : P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2013). “House of Night Series”, p.154, Macmillan
“I come in a world of iron to make a world of gold.”

Source : "Man of La Mancha". Musical by Dale Wasserman and Mitch Leigh, 1965.
“That we do not comprehend or accept something does not invalidate its truth.”
“Anything that can be done to a rat can be done to a human being. And we can do most anything to rats. This is a hard thing to think about, but it's the truth. It won't go away because we cover our eyes. THAT is cyberpunk.”

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