#i

The first couple of days on the detox diet aren't pleasant. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#days #detox #diet #first #pleasant

There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He was happy to see my brother and sister, but not me. I don't know why. Maybe it was shame. I don't know. But he never wanted anything to do with me. That rejection was terribly hurtful and it went on for years. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#because #brother #brother and sister #family #father

Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.' ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#am #bottom #changed #far #go

In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. ↗

— Alice Walker

#found #garden #i #mother #my own

It is such a letdown to rise from the dead and have your friends not recognize you. ↗

— Rob Bell

#resurrection #faith

The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

#been #day #dungeon #even #found

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

#men #name #nerves #only #pessimism

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

#logic #mind #often #others #own

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act. ↗

— Bernard De Voto

#becomes #exact #meaningless #point #reason

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that. ↗

— Sarah Vowell

#ever #hiding #you