Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
Portia de Rossi
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Recovery feels like shit. It didn't feel like I was doing something good; it felt like I was giving up. It feels like having to learn how to walk all over again.”
“True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.”
“Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.”
“Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.”
“I don't know where this pressure came from. I can't blame my parents because it has always felt internal. Like any other parent, my mother celebrated the A grades and the less-than-A grades she felt there was no need to tell anybody about. But not acknowledging the effort that ended in a less than perfect result impacted me as a child. If I didn't win, then we wouldn't tell anyone that I had even competed to save us the embarrassment of acknowledging that someone else was better. Keeping the secret made me think that losing was something to be ashamed of, and that unless I was sure I was going to be the champion there was no point in trying. And there was certainly no point to just having fun.”
“And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.”
“There's a fine line between being private and being ashamed.”
“When it’s quiet in my head like this, that’s when the voice doesn’t need to tell me how pathetic I am. I know it in the deepest part of me. When it’s quiet like this, that’s when I truly hate myself.”
“Most important, in order to find real happiness, you must learn to love yourself for the totality of who you are and not just what you look like.”
“Restriction generates yearning. You want what you cannot have.”
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