Quotations for Hair-Pulling Disorder (Trichotillomania)

A hair decides what is false and true.
- Omar Khayyam

Beware as long as you live, of judging people by appearances.
- Jean de la Fontaine

They certainly give very strange names to diseases.
- Plato

Hair brings one's self-image into focus; it is vanity's proving ground. Hair is terribly personal, a tangle of mysterious prejudices.
- Shana Alexander

What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
- Alanis Morissette

You cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair.
- Chinese proverb

It's not the hair on your head that matters. It's the kind of hair you have inside.
- Gary Shandling

Habits - the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
- Juliene Berk

What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
- Seneca

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
- Coco Chanel

Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.
- Brian Dyson

A setback is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
- Henry Ford

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
- Satchel Paige