Portia de Rossi Quotes

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I highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life.

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Being sick allows you to check out of life. Getting well again means you have to check back in. It is absolutely crucial that you feel ready to check back into life because you feel as though something has changed from the time before you were sick. Whatever it was that made you feel insecure, less than, or pressured to live in a way that was uncomfortable to you has to change before you want to go back there and start over.

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I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn't have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.

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And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.

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True nobility isn't about being better than anyone else; it's about being better than you used to be.

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I wondered if that's what aging felt like. That desire and reality were dueling until the day you die, that nobody every got to a place of peace. I had always wanted to get old so I didn't have to care anymore, but I began to think that it would be best just to skip the getting older part and just die.

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She'd tell me how she'd handle the backhanded compliment by smiling and pretending she was receiving a genuine compliment all the while ignoring their attempt to be insulting. After all, it's the way an insult is received that makes it an insult. You can't really give offense unless someone takes it.

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Even when I took first prize, topped the class, won the race, I never really won anything. I was merely avoiding the embarrassment of losing.

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Average. It was the worst, most disgusting word in the English language. Nothing meaningful or worthwhile ever came from that word.

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The theory of objectivism claims that there are certain things that most people in society can agree upon. A model is pretty. A lawyer is smart. Our society is based upon objectivism. It's how we make rules and why we obey them.

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The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another diet or neglect to use the gym membership we could barely afford.

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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.

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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.

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I had to find a relationship with someone who could simultaneously make me grow up and keep me forever young.

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I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out.

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Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular.

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Women in the postfeminist era, while supposedly strong and commanding and equal to men in every sense, looked weaker and smaller than ever before.

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You don't have to be emaciated or vomiting to be suffering. All people who live their lives on a diet are suffering.

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Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

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I began to see myself as someone who can help others understand diversity rather than feeling like a social outcast. Ellen taught me to not care about other people's opinions. She taught me to be truthful. She taught me to be free. I began to live my life in love and complete acceptance. For the first time I had truly accepted myself.

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I was trying to find a reason for having had to escape from the place that was my home. To convince myself of my choices, I had to make it a place that everyone should want to escape from.

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I'm vegan. It's really changed, like, my eyes, my, you know, everything.

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I didn't understand that playing roles in any relationship is false and will inevitably lead to the relationship's collapse. No one can be any one thing all the time.

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