Quotes by Katie Piper - Page 2

I know how hard it is to be bullied about a part of yourself that you can't change, or just because of who you are. It can turn you into an angry and bitter person.
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Bitter
Bullied
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Of course, I'd like to fall in love and get married one day - my brother has just got engaged and I'm thrilled for him - but I'm not obsessing about meeting someone.
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Engaged
Love Day One Day
Get Married
Thrilled
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Everyone contacts me with the same questions: how can I be more confident? How can I get over my anxiety? And, without being preachy, I do believe that diet is so key.
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Contacts
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I am so much more than what happened to me. I'm a mother and a businesswoman; I run a charity that supports others overcoming adversity; and, most importantly, I'm happy.
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Adversity
Charity
Overcoming
Mother I Am Me
Businesswoman
Run
Importantly
Supports
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I think the most hectic time in my house is about six o'clock in the morning, our sausage dog starts howling and barking and scratching to wake us all up - no alarms needed.
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Hectic
Sausage
Alarm
Barking
Howling
Scratching
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I always tell myself that nothing ever is worth holding onto if it hurt you, because the longer you hold onto anger and resentment, the longer you feed it and keep it alive.
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Anger
Alive
Hurt
Resentment
Myself Always Keep
Feed
Hold
Longer
Onto
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I don't want to be an ambassador for too many charities, because it's a far stronger message to be a person with a disfigurement going about their life doing everyday things.
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Everyday
Ambassador
Charities
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I was a torch carrier in the 2012 Paralympics and every time I thought 'I can't do this' I would look at the blade runners and the athletes and wheelchairs think, okay, I can run.
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Carrier
Runners
Athletes
Blade
Torch
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Don't wait until there is tragedy in your life. Don't wait until you lose somebody. Don't wait until it's too late. Appreciate the beautiful people that you have in your life now.
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Appreciate
Beautiful
People
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I was quite lonely because I didn't have a boyfriend or many friends, so I started spending my weekends doing races. Then I progressed to a half-marathon and I actually enjoyed it!
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Boyfriend
Lonely
Races
Weekends
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When you're on you're way into work, hit up the WhatsApp, find out what people want, and bring in a real coffee for everyone. Trust me when I say they will all really appreciate it.
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Trust
Appreciate
Coffee
Real
Trust Me
Whatsapp
Work Me People
Trust Work Me
Hit
Bring
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Have people like Kim Kardashian really fought their way to the top on their own? Or is that just the brand they want us to see. I don't buy it. I think we flourish by working together.
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Working Together
Together People Way
Flourish
Fought
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I think the loveliest time in our house is probably a Sunday, because usually I don't work, my husband doesn't work, Belle's at home and we're all together enjoying each other's company.
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Belle
Sunday
Time Work Home
Enjoying
Work Time Home
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I have an older brother and younger sister and for the first few years I was quite a tomboy. We lived in a small village in Hampshire and my brother and I would climb trees and make dens.
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Hampshire
Older Brother
Village
Younger Sister
Tomboy
Trees
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I feel like I've lived two or three completely different lives. At 33, I'm quite reflective and have the perspective you get in your old age when you have been through the losses of life.
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Old Age
Perspective
Life Age Old Age
Losses
Reflective
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I've come to the conclusion that we're all responsible for our own happiness and the happiness in your life depends on the quality of your thoughts. I'm a big believer in positive thinking.
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Believer
Conclusion
Depends
Positive Thinking
Positive Life Happiness
Big Believer
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I've got a shadow on the lung as a result of being in intensive care, so I find running quite hard. I breathe mainly through my mouth because my nose is damaged, so I keep swallowing flies.
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Breathe
Shadow
Swallowing
Damaged
Intensive
Lung
Mouth
Nose
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Once my sister was older, she and I would do lots of hobbies together. We took dance lessons and put on shows at home; tap dancing on the granite fireplace, which must have mortified my dad.
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Granite
Tap
Fireplace
Mortified
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Through my work at the Katie Piper Foundation, I've seen how the smallest of kindness can make a difference to someone's life. Even a simple smile instead of a start can lift someone's heart.
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Kindness
Heart
Simple
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I've had lots of opportunities to do things I'm passionate about and the things I care about and I feel that I can live in a world that doesn't really accept people that are different happily.
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World Care People
Happily
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People always go on about me being an inspiration, which is nice. But it's an unrealistic pedestal to be put on. There are other people out there who have had things happen to them, not just me.
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Pedestal
Things Happen
Me People Always
Unrealistic
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I still have difficult days when I lose hours to anxiety, feeling my throat swell and my mind race with paranoid thoughts. But - thanks in part to ongoing therapy - they're happening less and less.
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Ongoing
Thanks
Therapy
Throat
Swell
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At 24 I was a wannabe. I was not a 'former TV presenter' as everybody says - I was a young girl living on a wish, appearing on the roulette channel at 1 am and selling cordless kettles on Channel 953.
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Appearing
Former
Roulette
Selling
Channel
Young Girl
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I see it as someone who's been burned doesn't have to be put in this box where they can't be glamorous - I try and live that vision all the time and push those stereotypes away. That's all you can do.
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Burned
Glamorous
Vision
Box
Push
Stereotypes
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Writing my first book, 'Beautiful,' was the time that I was able to write the truth of it - that I was despairing at times, that I got depressed and felt like I couldn't cope. Writing became about being honest.
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Being Honest
Cope
Depressed
Despairing
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I would encourage anyone to keep a pad of post-it notes by their bed and write down small, achievable goals and celebrate those successes and that will give you confidence to create bigger ones and achieve them.
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Celebrate
Notes
Pad
Successes
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I meet many inspiring individuals who have worked hard to rebuild their lives after an attack; however, it can be hard to stay motivated when the justice system does not always reflect the severity of these crimes.
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Inspiring
Severity
Crimes
Rebuild
Reflect
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I was the victim of a violent attack in March 2008. I had sulphuric acid thrown in my face and was severely injured leaving me with loss of site in my eye and full thickness burns on my neck, chest, face and hands.
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Acid
Injured
March
Site
Thrown
Face Me Hands
Neck
Burns
Chest
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I have learnt from Simon Cowell that anything is possible if you work hard enough and also that acts of kindness or giving somebody a few minutes of your time can have a massive impact on their life and their future.
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Anything Is Possible
Life Time Future
Acts
Life Work Future
Learnt
Simon
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What is kindness? For me, it is about treating people how you would want to be treated – but, with so many of us living out our lives on social media, it can be harder and harder to show compassion to those around us.
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Compassion
Treating
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There were times after the accident when I felt very lonely - burns survivors can feel terrible isolation. I wanted to create something that connects us all together, so that was the idea behind the Katie Piper Foundation.
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Isolation
Lonely
Accident
Burns
Piper
Survivors
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I enjoy social media, but I don't take it as gospel. Yes, it can make me feel insecure if I see my peers doing more than me. You have to remind yourself it's a marketing tool, a facade, but that's easier when you are older.
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Facade
Insecure
Marketing
Peers
Gospel
Remind
Tool
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The trial of Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius has kept me fascinated and shocked in equal measure. But like many women, I was relieved this week when he was found guilty of culpable homicide after killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
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Fascinated
Guilty
Homicide
Relieved
Shocked
Measure
Olympic
Trial
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I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was angry at. Sometimes they weren't to a person, they were just to the universe - a bit like penning daydreams or isolated thoughts.
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Diaries
Isolated
Letters
Published
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I like to tell myself people look at me for all sorts of reasons. Maybe they're staring because they're shocked or maybe they recognise me from TV, or maybe they just like my shoes - especially women, because we all look at each other's clothes and hair.
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Clothes
Recognise
Shocked
Shoes
Staring
Tv
Women Myself Me
Women Myself Look
Reasons
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It's so easy to butt into a conversation and offer your own thoughts or opinions, but try not to interrupt. Instead, focus on what the other person is saying, think twice and be the person that listens. It's so much more valuable than constantly talking.
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Valuable
Butt
Interrupt
Listens
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My dad and sister are vegetarian and I was brought up as one, but I ate a bit of fish and meat. After the attack my oesophagus melted and I had to have plastic stents put into my throat to rebuild it, so I couldn't swallow and I was fed via a high-calorie drip through my stomach.
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Sister
Dad
Meat
Plastic
Stomach
Throat
Vegetarian
Ate
Attack
Bit
Fish
Brought
Drip
Fed
Melted
Rebuild
Swallow
Via
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My biggest hope for the future is that we're successful in delivering the treatment to people through the charity and that burns just become something that happens in people's lives but doesn't make them a misfit in society and exclude them and stop all their dreams and ambitions.
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Future
Society
Ambition
Charity
Delivering
Successful
Treatment
Biggest
Burns
Exclude
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Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react. There are some things we can't control and some things that do happen to us that we can't take back, but how we deal with it afterwards is our future... I think anybody can do anything they want if they stay positive and determined.
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Stay Positive
Thinking
Want
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As well as being my doctor, Mohammad Jawad is so kind and caring and we have a father/daughter relationship. When I left hospital he found out about a revolutionary rehab centre in the south of France and spent his August bank holiday taking me there in 2008 to see it - such a happy time.
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August
Caring
Centre
Holiday
Rehab
Revolutionary
Bank
Hospital
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Before I was attacked, I would write about the future - just goals, lists and plans. I'd scribble without depth or substance about the things I wanted to do with my life, whether short or long-term, and how I thought my future would be: a successful career in TV and modelling, marriage, a family.
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Depth
Long Term
Plans
Substance
Life Future Family
Attacked
Life Family Future
Scribble
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It can be embarrassing paying someone a compliment, but, in the modern world, these don't even have to be done out loud. When you're scrolling in the morning on Instagram, don't just like someone's photo, but make a point of going into the comments section and write down one nice thing that you see or feel about that picture.
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Compliment
Embarrassing
Loud
Modern World
Comments
Photo
Section
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