To be Beloved

She lived the life she had always imagined

Friends.Horror.Harry Potter.
Glitter.Rain.Teenage Pain.

Eating disorders are really about excessive control, painful perfectionism, and stubborn self-hatred. They are not about whether or not your thighs touch, the width of your hips, the size of your butt, or the number on a scale. Unfortunately, anorexia, bulimia, and related disorders exist at every number on the scale. Eating disorders do not discriminate. Ed will be happy to destroy your life at whatever size and weight you happen to be. Don’t give him the chance.

—Life Without Ed  (via very-thin)

(Source: mwanzotena, via anowlinthemidst)

We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us.

—Thich Nhat Hanh (via nephilnine)

(Source: yellow-ribbon, via the--l0up)