36 Extraordinary Quotes For Eating Disorder Recovery

I’ve been really into inspiring, uplifting quotes lately, so I’ve put together some extraordinary quotes for eating disorder recovery from around the internet. I hope they inspire and uplift you.

Inspiration

“Though no one can go back and make a new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard

“You didn’t come this far to only come this far.” – Mick Kremling

“Let your hopes, not your hurts shape your future.” – Robert Schuller

“Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.” – Kevyn Aucoin

Self-love

“Self-love, self-respect, self-worth….there is a reason they all start with ‘self.’ You cannot find them in anyone else.” – Unknown

“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

“Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.” – Les Brown

“Choose every day to forgive yourself. You are human, and most of all, worthy of love.” – Allison Malee

“Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.” – Kurt Vonnegut

Reassurance

“Whatever you did today is enough. Whatever you felt today is valid. Whatever you thought today isn’t to be judged. Repeat the above each day.” – Brittany Burgunder

“You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won’t discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.” – Geneen Roth

“Sometimes it’s ok if the only thing you did today was breathe.” -Unknown

Courage

“Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn’t think I would make it.”
– Laurie Halse Anderson

“Just because something is familiar, doesn’t mean it’s safe. And just because something feels safe, doesn’t mean it’s good for you.” – Brittany Burgunder

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” – Anaïs Nin

“I think sometimes making yourself vulnerable before you are ready is exactly what can hold you accountable. Do what you fear.” – Brittany Burgunder

“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow

“Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it’s going on when you don’t have strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“Fall seven times and stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb

Strength

“Ask yourself what you love. Without fear of consequences, without force or shame or guilt. What motivates you to be kind, to take care of your body, your spirit, others, the earth? Trust the longing, trust the love that can be translated into action without the threat of punishment. Trust that you will not destroy what matters most. Give yourself that much.”
– Geneen Roth

“If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.” – Michael Meegan

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…Do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank

“The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the person perfected without trials.” – Chinese proverb

“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

Recovery

“Recovery is real. It’s not a luck-of-the-draw deal where you put your name in a hat and hope to be chosen. It’s a grueling, relentless, personal process that will push you beyond your limits over and over.” – Brittany Burgunder

“My worst days in recovery are better than the best days in relapse.” – Kate Le Page

“You will get there when you are meant to get there and not one moment sooner. So relax, breathe, and be patient.” – Mandy Hale

“Everything will be ok in the end. If it’s not ok, it’s not the end.” – Unknown

“Focus on progress not perfection.” – Bill Phillips

“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh

“If you’re going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

“Recovery is not a straight line. Be gentle with yourself.” – Unknown

“No two eating disorders are the same.
No two individuals are the same.
No two paths to recovery are the same.
But everyone’s strength to reach recovery IS the same.”
– Brittany Burgunder

Final thoughts on quotes for eating disorder recovery

Well, there you have it, some of the best quotes for eating disorder recovery! Because reaching recovery is such a difficult road, anything that can help you on your journey, I will always share.

May your journey be one of inspiration, self-love, reassurance, courage, strength, and, most of all, recovery.