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  • #1
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.”
    W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

  • #2
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “Freedom! That was the thought that sung in her heart so that even though the future was so dim, it was iridescent like the mist over the river where the morning sun fell upon it. Freedom! Not only freedom from a bond that irked, and a companionship which depressed her; freedom, not only from the death which had threatened, but freedom from the love that had degraded her; freedom from all spiritual ties, the freedom of a disembodied spirit, and with freedom, courage , and a valiant unconcern for whatever was to come.”
    W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

  • #3
    W. Somerset Maugham
    “...the human race, like drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far apart, a nameless flood, to the sea. When all things lasted so short a time and nothing mattered very much, it seemed pitiful that men, attaching an absurd importance to trivial objects, should make themselves and one another so unhappy.”
    W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

  • #4
    Shauna L. Hoey
    “Having my defenses down felt good. I didn’t realize how much energy it took to carry my armor. My wall of protection kept bad stuff out, but it also kept good stuff from coming in. Guarding my heart is important, but not at the expense of being known by people who love me.”
    Shauna L Hoey

  • #5
    Danielle Bernock
    “Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive.”
    Danielle Bernock, Emerging With Wings: A True Story of Lies, Pain, And The LOVE that Heals

  • #6
    Yong Kang Chan
    “Beneath anger, there are hurt feelings.”
    Yong Kang Chan, Parent Yourself Again: Love Yourself the Way You Have Always Wanted to Be Loved

  • #7
    Yong Kang Chan
    “Your inner child is waiting for a genuine, heartfelt apology.”
    Yong Kang Chan, Parent Yourself Again: Love Yourself the Way You Have Always Wanted to Be Loved

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    Danka V.
    “What irritated me most in that entire situation was the fact that I
    wasn’t feeling humiliated, or annoyed, or even fooled. Betrayal was
    what I felt, my heart broken not just by a guy I was in love with, but
    also by, as I once believed, a true friend.”
    Danka V., The Unchosen Life

  • #10
    Catherine McKenzie
    “I stare off into space for a minute. "I just wish my life would go back to the way it was."
    "Why?"
    "Because I was happy then. Things weren't perfect, but still, I knew where I fit. I knew where I was going."
    "And you don't feel that way anymore?"
    "No. I feel kind of...lost in the middle of my own life, if that makes any sense.”
    Catherine McKenzie, Forgotten

  • #11
    Donna Goddard
    “To forgive oneself does not negate the need to undo mistakes. True forgiveness desires to make things right. Making things right is not equivalent to guilt. The need to undo mistakes cannot be replaced by guilt. In fact, being immobilised by guilt is an avoidance of fixing things up. It makes one powerless and gives one an excuse to remain passive and negligent. To continuously feel guilty over wrong doing is both ego-confirmatory and ineffective in correcting bad karma. Guilt is the initial spur to action. Then we act in order to correct both our thoughts and the karma, and we leave the guilt behind.”
    Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion

  • #12
    Truman Capote
    “Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.”
    Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories

  • #13
    Jim Morrison
    “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
    Jim Morrison



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