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"не до конца уверена, норм мне поток сознания в главах или нет. больше нет, чем да. но мне всё же интересно, как эта саспыга изобрела неразряжающийся телефон-бумеранг, так что читаем дальше." — Oct 12, 2025 10:20AM
"не до конца уверена, норм мне поток сознания в главах или нет. больше нет, чем да. но мне всё же интересно, как эта саспыга изобрела неразряжающийся телефон-бумеранг, так что читаем дальше." — Oct 12, 2025 10:20AM
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"i hate to admit it, but i'm not having fun. maybe it's just the wrong time for this book and i. maybe i need to be more focused to keep up with everything that's going on here. but... i'm definitely not having fun with Carl and Donut and everyone anymore :(" — Oct 12, 2025 10:21AM
"i hate to admit it, but i'm not having fun. maybe it's just the wrong time for this book and i. maybe i need to be more focused to keep up with everything that's going on here. but... i'm definitely not having fun with Carl and Donut and everyone anymore :(" — Oct 12, 2025 10:21AM
“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
“The next year, when he’d won first prize for spelling and was given a wooden pencil-case whose sliding top doubled as a ruler, Mrs Wilson had rubbed the top of his head and praised him, as though he was one of her own. ‘You’re a credit to yourself,’ she’d told him. And for a whole day or more, Furlong had gone around feeling a foot taller, believing, in his heart, that he mattered as much as any other child.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment...'dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of the love -- which is to transform us.' Many people want love to function like a drug, giving them an immediate and sustained high. They want to do nothing, just passively receive the good feeling.”
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“But it cut him, all the same, to see one of his own so upset by the sight of what other children craved and he could not help but wonder if she'd be brave enough or able for what the world had in store.”
― Small Things Like These
― Small Things Like These
“When we feel deeply drawn to someone, we cathect them; that is, we invest feelings or emotion in them. That process of investment wherein a loved one becomes important to us is called "cathexis". I his book Peck rightly emphasizes that most of us "confuse cathecting with loving." We all know how often individuals of cathecting insist that they love the other person even if they are hurting of neglecting them. Since their feiling is that of cathexis, they insist that what they feel is love.
When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive.”
― All About Love: New Visions
When we understand love as the will to nurture our own and another's spiritual growth, it becomes clear that we cannot claim to love if we are hurtful and abusive.”
― All About Love: New Visions
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