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“When we don’t tell those we love about what’s really going on or listen carefully to what they have to say, we tend to fill in the blanks with stories.”
― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection

tags: communication, listening, love, real-love, relationships, storytelling

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“Ain’ no Black people need no therapists, ’cause we don’ be havin’ those mental issues. OCD, ADD, PTSD, and all those other acronyms they be comin’ up with every day. I’m tellin’ you, the only acronyms Black folk need help with is the NYPD, FBI, CIA, KKK, and KFC, ’cause I know they be puttin’ shit in those twelve-piece bucket meals to make us addicted to them. All that saturated fat, sodium.”
― Mateo Askaripour, Black Buck

tags: african-americans, blacks, chicken, fried-chicken, kentucky-fried-chicken, kfc, police-brutality, racism, therapy

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“It was never about you not being what I wanted. It was me not knowing that what I had was everything I needed.”
― Corinne Michaels, Say I'm Yours

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“Emotional abuse can leave a victim feeling like a shell of a person, separated from the true essence of who they naturally are. It also leads to a victim feeling tormented and tortured by their own emotions.”
― Lorraine Nilon, Breaking Free From the Chains of Silence: A respectful exploration into the ramifications of Paedophilic abuse

tags: abuse-of-power, bullying-quotes, childhood-neglect, childhood-trauma, emotional-neglect, emotional-wounds, gaslighting, me-too, narcissism, narcissistic-abuse

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“…the sad part is, that I will probably end up loving you without you for much longer than I loved you when I knew you.
Some people might find that strange.
But the truth of it is that the amount of love you feel for someone and the impact they have on you as a person, is in no way relative to the amount of time you have known them.”
― Ranata Suzuki