Emotional Anorexia Quotes & Sayings

To have one man's nut lay against another man's is a most awkward position to find oneself. — Jason R. Koivu

In the addiction recovery community, we recognise that addicts can starve themselves of receiving social, sexual or emotional nourishment. Sex and love addicts starve themselves of a healthy, personal relationship and, consequently, deliberately avoid wholesome relationships with other human beings. We're getting quite deep now, but there are many papers and books published on sexual and emotional anorexia. I have also suffered from emotional anorexia. It's no myth! — Christopher Dines

The purse strings tie us to our kind. — Walter Bagehot

Above all shadows rides the sun. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses. — Bobby Seale

Be glad. Celebrate! Lose your mindless fear, and take courage today. No, don't ever be afraid, no matter what's happened to you before. That's right, don't be afraid, no matter what you may see coming. Take courage because Christ was crucified for you.2 Catherine of Siena, Letters — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I was a very lonely child and it's funy but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I felt starved of affection, starved of love and I felt that it wasn't OK to ask for it. Maybe there was a sense that if I deserved it, it would be there. There must be something I'd done which meant I didn't deserve it. — Carol Lee

When I'm singing I try not be a singer with a capital S. I just try to get it out so I feel comfortable with it. — Robert Wyatt

With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation. So our self-esteem in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do. It is determined by the ratio of our actualities to our supposed potentialities. — Alain De Botton

her eyes are unfathomable to me, hostile, even, as if she had removed herself to a place where I cannot reach her - somewhere I cannot know. — Carol Lee

My interest is in what's true, where is the life, where is the heart and what inspires. — Rob Bell