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Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _ Alice Alone
You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know."
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Drexel Deal _ The Fight of My Life is
One of the things we haven't taught our people as a nation, that this is their country. We haven't told them that this Bahamas belongs to them. Whether it succeeds or fails it is entirely up to them. WE haven't told our people that they are valuable. I sometimes pass little boys playing in the road and I would stop my car and say to them: 'Excuse me baby, do you realize how valuable you are? Do not play in the road, if anything happen to you that is going to hurt us. Because you might be our Prime Minister one day. Iris Adderley, consultant in the Disability Affairs Devision of The Department of Social Services.
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Charles Bukowski _ Ham on Rye
I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
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Alain de Botton _ The School of Life
A fundamental truth, is that there is simply no such thing as an inherently boring person or thing. People are only in danger of coming across as such when they either fail to understand their deeper selves or don't dare or know how to communicate them to others.
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Alain de Botton _ Status Anxiety
We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves.
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Hanif Kureishi _ The Buddha of Suburbia
Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.
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Robert Greene _ Mastery
If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes.
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Irvin D. Yalom _ Love's Executioner and Other
I always imagined that you might write something about me. I wanted to leave an imprint on your life. I don't want to be "just another patient". I wanted to be "special". I want to be something, anything. I feel like nothing, no one. If I left an imprint on your life, maybe I would be someone, someone you wouldn't forget. I'd exist then. {Marge's letter to Yalom}
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Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love
This is what I find myself writing to myself on the page:I'm here. I love you. I don't care if you need to stay up crying all night long. I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it - I will love you through that, as well. If you don't need the medication, I will love you, too. There's nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
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Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love
I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was {rightfully} dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of protection. What I mean is--I never thought to ask a suitor the same challenging questions my father might have asked him, in a different age.
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Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love
We're miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.
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Charlotte Brontë _ Jane Eyre
I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.
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