The Lover
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It’s not that you have to achieve anything, it’s that you have to get away from where you are.
“As in most cases when the truth becomes clear you wonder how you could ever have seen things differently.”
― Not in the Flesh
― Not in the Flesh
“Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t “bad kids.” They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“To admit uncertainty is to admit to weakness, to powerlessness, and to believe in yourself despite both. It is a frailty, but in this frailty there is a strength: the conviction to live in your own mind, and not in someone else’s.”
― Educated
― Educated
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