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Top 15 Rachel Reiland Quotes (2024 Update)

Rachel Reiland Quote: “The only way to see the light at the end of the tunnel was to crawl through the mud in darkness.”

1. “The only way to see the light at the end of the tunnel was to crawl through the mud in darkness.”

— Rachel Reiland

Rachel Reiland Quote: “And, as an adult, you have the freedom and the access to indulge in much greater forms of self-destruction than a two-year-old could ever have. You can drink and use drugs. You can smoke. You can be promiscuous. You can kill yourself if you want to, run into the streets at night, choose to eat everything in sight, or starve yourself. It’s dangerous when the raw black-and-white emotions of a child are harbored in an adult’s mind and body.”

2. “And, as an adult, you have the freedom and the access to indulge in much greater forms of self-destruction than a two-year-old could ever have. You can drink and use drugs. You can smoke. You can be promiscuous. You can kill yourself if you want to, run into the streets at night, choose to eat everything in sight, or starve yourself. It’s dangerous when the raw black-and-white emotions of a child are harbored in an adult’s mind and body.”

— Rachel Reiland

Rachel Reiland Quote: “If the borderline rage that had fueled me for so long was torn down and taken away, would there be anything left? Or would it take the life, the spirit, right out of me? I was daunted by the prospect of letting go without a clear idea of what would emerge in the old framework’s place.”

3. “If the borderline rage that had fueled me for so long was torn down and taken away, would there be anything left? Or would it take the life, the spirit, right out of me? I was daunted by the prospect of letting go without a clear idea of what would emerge in the old framework’s place.”

— Rachel Reiland

Rachel Reiland Quote: “Deeply vulnerable and hurting within as you act tough outside. You do need people; you need them so much so that it scares you to death. You drive them away so they don’t get too close; yet you regret it every time you do.”

4. “Deeply vulnerable and hurting within as you act tough outside. You do need people; you need them so much so that it scares you to death. You drive them away so they don’t get too close; yet you regret it every time you do.”

— Rachel Reiland

Rachel Reiland Quote: “If the walls were cracking, I’d plastered the surface back to smoothness. If the floor tiles were crumbling, I’d replaced them. If the roof was leaking, I’d patched the leaks. I’d pretended that, because the “house” still appeared okay, all was okay. Nothing had changed; all had been fixed. Nothing else needed to change.”

5. “If the walls were cracking, I’d plastered the surface back to smoothness. If the floor tiles were crumbling, I’d replaced them. If the roof was leaking, I’d patched the leaks. I’d pretended that, because the “house” still appeared okay, all was okay. Nothing had changed; all had been fixed. Nothing else needed to change.”

— Rachel Reiland

Rachel Reiland Quote: “It was like being in a struggle for survival against a murderous foe, except I was the one who was fighting for survival and I was also the murderer within.”

6. “It was like being in a struggle for survival against a murderous foe, except I was the one who was fighting for survival and I was also the murderer within.”

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Rachel Reiland Quote: “Former pleasures meant nothing to me anymore. Life was a series of tasks to be endured, and even the simplest ones were painfully arduous. It took everything I could muster to cook a meal, wash the dishes, or do the laundry. My income was virtually nonexistent. My occupation was therapy.”

7. “Former pleasures meant nothing to me anymore. Life was a series of tasks to be endured, and even the simplest ones were painfully arduous. It took everything I could muster to cook a meal, wash the dishes, or do the laundry. My income was virtually nonexistent. My occupation was therapy.”

— Rachel Reiland

Rachel Reiland Quote: “I didn’t understand why I could not control myself despite my best intentions.”

8. “I didn’t understand why I could not control myself despite my best intentions.”

— Rachel Reiland

Rachel Reiland Quote: “One of the reasons teenagers rebel is to test the limits to make sure they are still there. But for you it was particularly difficult. And something you never really got over.”

9. “One of the reasons teenagers rebel is to test the limits to make sure they are still there. But for you it was particularly difficult. And something you never really got over.”

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Rachel Reiland Quote: “The thing I knew I needed to let go of most was anger. I would have to take on faith that something else would come in its place.”

10. “The thing I knew I needed to let go of most was anger. I would have to take on faith that something else would come in its place.”

— Rachel Reiland

Rachel Reiland Quote: “As much as I loathed pain, progress did not seem to come without it.”

11. “As much as I loathed pain, progress did not seem to come without it.”

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Rachel Reiland Quote: “If my mind began to wander again, I found a way to distract it. Stay busy. Get drunk. Get laid. Anything to escape the chamber of torture that was my mind.”

12. “If my mind began to wander again, I found a way to distract it. Stay busy. Get drunk. Get laid. Anything to escape the chamber of torture that was my mind.”

— Rachel Reiland

Rachel Reiland Quote: “I was getting better at controlling my emotional reactions. When feelings overwhelmed me, I learned to thwart the burning temptation to act self-destructively and to sit with the feelings instead.”

13. “I was getting better at controlling my emotional reactions. When feelings overwhelmed me, I learned to thwart the burning temptation to act self-destructively and to sit with the feelings instead.”

— Rachel Reiland

Rachel Reiland Quote: “I was the one who was fighting for survival and I was also the murderer within.”

14. “I was the one who was fighting for survival and I was also the murderer within.”

— Rachel Reiland

Rachel Reiland Quote: “A few of the researchers seem to think that once a borderline, always a borderline. That you can’t cure it – you can only control it. That a lot of people are destined to live their lives in and out of institutions, that there isn’t much hope.”

15. “A few of the researchers seem to think that once a borderline, always a borderline. That you can’t cure it – you can only control it. That a lot of people are destined to live their lives in and out of institutions, that there isn’t much hope.”

— Rachel Reiland

Rachel Reiland Quote: “Death scared me because I feared nothingness. If I had been nothing before I was born, then I could imagine that I would be nothing once I died.”

16. “Death scared me because I feared nothingness. If I had been nothing before I was born, then I could imagine that I would be nothing once I died.”

— Rachel Reiland

Rachel Reiland Quote: “Most important, the reason I wrote this book is to serve as proof that miracles do happen, that love can and does heal wounds, that there is hope for those with the courage and fortitude to seek healing.”

17. “Most important, the reason I wrote this book is to serve as proof that miracles do happen, that love can and does heal wounds, that there is hope for those with the courage and fortitude to seek healing.”

— Rachel Reiland

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