Admitted I was powerless over food, that my life had become uninhabitable. Sure, there are folks who speak of livesunmanageable, but my life was always that! It took more to push me to the admission. I had a Hell Year when I turned 50and it took me another ten to reach the crevice, to fall off the edge, to give up and gowhere a counselor had directed me for years, to the rooms of recovery. I knew she was rightbut I wasn’t broken enough to go. Unmanageable, I could life in. Uninhabitable I couldn’t. I fought it for nigh on sixty yearsbut 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 thereto recovery. . Barbara B. Rollins
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Paula Hawkins
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Alysha Speer
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
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Unknown
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Joseph Conrad
Ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.
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Carrie Fisher
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