Irritable Bowel Disease Quotes & Sayings

I choose to be the person that i want to be — James Frey

Today, I hold firm to my ability to say "no" to everything that doesn't fall under the umbrella of my ultimate gifts. If it doesn't allow me to offer my best self to the world, it's a graceful "no. — Heidi Tankersley

I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race. — Louis Zamperini

But as we are looking toward our future, I'm not sure it matters what we want to be but rather who we want to be. Someone honest or deceitful? Someone kind or cruel? Someone loyal or unfaithful? In any profession we can elect to be any of those things. I think this assignment is not only about what we choose to do but about who we choose to be. I choose to always be loyal to myself. — Ellen Schreiber

The biggest question of all was tinged with hope: Is it possible I can be completely well again? And more importantly, could I be brave enough to dare to believe it? — Heidi Tankersley

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. — Karl Marx

When you grow up, son, never ever go to bed at night knowing that there was something you could have done during the day to strike a blow against injustice and you didn't do it. — Harry Belafonte

If you confidently start to move from where you are to where you want to be, it's only a matter of time before the people around you will accept what you are doing. Or, at the very least, they will realize you will not be deterred, and they'll stop trying to hold you back. — Heidi Tankersley

MEN WHO CANNOT LET GO CHOOSE WOMEN WHO CANNOT SAY NO. — Gavin De Becker

Food was my friend that day.
Little did I know it would take nearly seven years to break my unhealthy relationship with food. I had to end a relationship that was one-sided. I was very selfish, and food was very good to me. It kept giving, and I kept taking, and both of us cared very little for the damage it was doing to me, both psychologically and physically. — Heidi Tankersley

Traffic's not too bad on Sheridan, and I'm cornering the car like it's the Indy 500, and we're listening to my favorite NMH song, "Holland, 1945," and then onto Lake Shore Drive, the waves of Lake Michigan crashing against the boulders by the Drive, the windows cracked to get the car to defrost, the dirty, bracing, cold air rushing in, and I love the way Chicago smells - Chicago is brackish lake water and soot and sweat and grease and I love it, and I love this song, and Tiny's saying I love this song, and he's got the visor down so he can muss up his hair a little more expertly. — John Green

Remain flexible and teachable so that you can make necessary adjustments in life. Mz Liz — Mz Liz

As he came to the bank Ogion, waiting, reached out his hand and clasping the boy's arm whispered to him his true name: Ged. — Ursula K. Le Guin

We have lost the invaluable faculty of being shocked a faculty which has hitherto almost distinguished the Man or Woman from the beast or child. — C.S. Lewis

For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him. — William Shakespeare

Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart. — Virginia Woolf

I've learned that creating a healthy, active environment for kids helps build the foundation for a successful future. — Mo Williams

The Beatles did their best cover work on Little Richard's 'Long Tall Sally' and music influenced by Richard, such as Larry Williams's 'Dizzy Miss Lizzie.' — Jon Landau