Sometimes I get so caught up in my own problems that I forget how amazing the world is.
by Wendelin Van Draanen, Runaway (via naturalrecovery)

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You can’t starve yourself indefinitely. Either you start to eat because your body and mind just can’t take it any more, someone else forces you to eat, or you die. It’s not a self-sustaining system.

Yet the alternative somehow seems worse. As torturous as the eating disorder is, life somehow feels worse. Life is messy. And painful. The eating disorder, while painful in its own way, is neat. It has a type of “payoff.” Starving made me feel better. Life… didn’t. I was good at an eating disorder but I sucked at life. I couldn’t quite figure it out.
by Carrie Arnold, ED Bites  (via nowtoknowitinmymemory)

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If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can’t know better until knowing better is useless.
by John Green, Looking for Alaska  (via anditslove)

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