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true friendship has little to do with how long you’ve known someone and everything to do with faith. The faith that you can expose your rawest thoughts and still be accepted.
“... it's a lie that people are scared of being alone, because what we fear is being abandoned. You can choose to be alone, but no one chooses to be left.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“This is what unfawning often looks like in the beginning, telling a radical truth we didn’t think we could tell (once enough internal and external safety has been established). A risk that feels bigger than we might survive.”
― Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves—and How to Find Our Way Back
― Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves—and How to Find Our Way Back
“Adults often think that self-confidence is something a child learns, but little kids are by their nature always invincible, it’s self-doubt that needs to be taught.”
― My Friends
― My Friends
“But decisions were time travelers, living in the past, present, and future all at once.”
― The Elsewhere Express
― The Elsewhere Express
“Because of these fears, fawners have trouble asserting ourselves, asking for help, or expressing opinions. We have difficulty setting fees or asking for money we’re owed. We’re afraid of taking up too much space in the overhead bin. We don’t want to disappoint people or “get in trouble.” Most people want to be liked, but fawners need it like Linus needs his security blanket.”
― Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves—and How to Find Our Way Back
― Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves—and How to Find Our Way Back
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