Ijsbrand Chardon Quotes & Sayings

admitted I was powerless over food,
that my life had become uninhabitable.
Sure, there are folks who speak of lives
unmanageable, but my life was always that!
It took more to push me to the admission.
I had a Hell Year when I turned 50
and it took me another ten to reach the crevice,
to fall off the edge, to give up and go
where a counselor had directed me for years,
to the rooms of recovery. I knew she was right
but I wasn't broken enough to go. Unmanageable,
I could life in. Uninhabitable I couldn't.
I fought it for nigh on sixty years
but when I finally couldn't keep on pretending,
continue making do, I found what I needed,
what I could finally accept, and soar out of there
to recovery. — Barbara B. Rollins

It was the first time in my life that I had been aware of my own existence. It was the first time in my life I had realized that I was alive. And if I was alive, then I could die, and I mean forever. Forever dead. Not heaven, not eternal life on some other plane ... just darkness, curtain, scene. Permanently. And that was the key to my new religion, I figured. That's why life was so fucking great. I want that day back. I want to be nine again and be told, Nomi: someday you'll be gone, you'll be dust, and then even less than dust. Nothing. There's no other place to be. This world is good enough for you because it has to be. Go ahead and love it. — Miriam Toews

Be a mere assistant to your unconscious. Do only half the work. The rest will do itself. — Jean Cocteau

We also confuse trust with familiarity. — Robert C. Solomon

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting. — Andy Warhol

But we did the best we could and in the end some of us had to get day jobs and start fresh. — Steve Brown

My father put his life in God's hands, and he encouraged us, his children, to believe that if we had absolute faith, God would take care of the rest. Miracles would happen. — Amy Tan

Acknowledge diversity and you will achieve unity. (Rabindranath Tagore) — Zhu Xiao-Mei

Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense. — Penn Jillette

There is no problem to relish pride when people praises you but at the same time, one must also be of the opinion that 'this should not be so'. — Dada Bhagwan

The thing to remember when traveling is that the trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast and you will miss all that you are traveling for." -Louis L' Amour — Robert Rodriguez Jr

It doesn't faze me what anyone says about me. It doesn't matter what anyone says about me. I'm a totally different entity to what other people think. Michael and Tyson are two different people. I'm Tyson here. — Mike Tyson

Those are just platitudes. Everyone has his own idea of "playing fair."
"Does he? Try making up your own idea of what's fair
say, "giving the greatest rewards to the laziest workers"
and see how seriously people take you. — J. Budziszewski

Your fragrance is always with me. — Jalaluddin Rumi