“All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.”
― All About Love: New Visions
― All About Love: New Visions
“Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near”
― Aleph
― Aleph
“It is possible to avoid pain? Yes, but you'll never learn anything. Is it possible to know something without ever having experiencing it? Yes, but it will never truly be part of you.”
― Aleph
― Aleph
“It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.”
― Aleph
― Aleph
“Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.”
― Aleph
― Aleph
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