“I am made for more than a vicious cycle of eating, gaining, stressing…”

“You are more than a survivor. You have been transformed.”

“This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.”

“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as I thought then, that it is better to die violently and not too old.”

“The spirit of a man shall sustain him in his sick bed.”

“Not everyone is bad in life. But everyone can be affected by bad things. We all need help at certain points in our life, why we need it is no right of others to judge whether it is a good or not reason to help.”

“To feel aroused is to feel alive. Having great sex is like taking in huge lungfuls of fresh air, essential to your body, essential to your health, and essential to your life.”

“Everything changed when I learned to honour my body instead of fighting it. When I learned to take care of it, like a precious castle to protect this weary heart. To stop harming it, punishing it for looking like this or that, feeling like this or that. I don’t look like they all told me I had to, but I’m healthy and strong and vital. That is enough.”

“We are a species with amnesia, who effectively forgot how to feed itself.”

“Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really need men (or at least not as much and as frequently as every single male chauvinist and every single misogynist believes).”

“Dad would call it my Sisyphus toll. Push a boulder up a hill, pretending it’s okay, and come nightfall it – and I – come crashing down. But he forgets the view each time I make it to the top.”

“Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) is largely an interrogation agency for whistle-blowers that extracts their full range of knowledge without upholding their legal rights.”

“Due to the experience of being in new places, our horizons and knowledge of foreign languages expand, which also influences the development and mental health of the person”

“Never take today for granted, tomorrow might never come.”

“That’s why it’s called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.”