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Sex with Kings: 500 Years of Adultery, Power, Rivalry, and Revenge

by Eleanor Herman (Goodreads Author)

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Sep 07, 2012 07:18AM

“I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me.”
― C. JoyBell C.

tags: acceptance, bravery, courage, critic, critical, criticism, criticize, growing, growth, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, learning, life-and-living, life-quotes, self-knowledge, self-love

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“I am fed up. I am fed up with tears and weakness. But there isn't much I can do to stop them.”
― Veronica Roth, Divergent

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“What our closest friends do for us is to teach us true selflessness. We learn that while it might be safer for them if we keep them out, true friendship means letting them in. We cannot decide for them what they are willing to suffer with us and for us. While we certainly don't want to see our friends suffer, friendship isn't about protecting each other from pain so much as it is about helping each other to become what God has called us to be.”
― Mark Mossa, Already There: Letting God Find You

tags: catholic, friendship, inspirational

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“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
― Jim Morrison

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“The difference between my darkness and your darkness is that I can look at my own badness in the face and accept its existence while you are busy covering your mirror with a white linen sheet. The difference between my sins and your sins is that when I sin I know I'm sinning while you have actually fallen prey to your own fabricated illusions. I am a siren, a mermaid; I know that I am beautiful while basking on the ocean's waves and I know that I can eat flesh and bones at the bottom of the sea. You are a white witch, a wizard; your spells are manipulations and your cauldron from hell yet you wrap yourself in white and wear a silver wig.”
― C. JoyBell C.