“Be authentic. Don't try to be someone you aren't. You'll hate yourself for it & the effort to maintain the facade will exhaust you. BE REAL! Many won't like the real you but that's better than having people adore the person that isn't you at all”
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“To join the company of women, to be adults, we go through a period of proudly boasting of having survived our own mother's indifference, anger, overpowering love, the burden of her pain, her tendency to drink or teetotal, her warmth or coldness, praise or criticism, sexual confusions or embarrassing clarity. It isn't enough that she sweat, labored, bore her daughters howling or under total anesthesia or both. No. She must be responsible for our psychic weaknesses the rest of her life. It is alright to feel kinship with your father, to forgive. We all know that. But your mother is held to a standard so exacting that it has no principles. She simply must be to blame.”
― The Painted Drum
― The Painted Drum
“By the time you realize your mother was right, you have a daughter who thinks that you're wrong”
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“Even the wise appear foolish before one who brings peace to another.”
― Make Love to the Universe: Himalayan Masters Share Spiritual Wisdom
― Make Love to the Universe: Himalayan Masters Share Spiritual Wisdom
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