Jodee Blanco Quotes

#1. Am I going to be this way for the rest of my life, always waiting for something bad to happen? Will I never truly be able to trust anyone? I worry that when I'm older, I'll be so afraid that people won't like me that I'll have trouble believing it when they actually do.

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#2. Stood there and watched and didn't do a thing to help me.

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#3. You don't get to pick who you are in this life, but you can decide what you become.

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#4. There seems little reason to prescribe anti-depressant medication to any but the most severely depressed patients.

Irving Kirsch

#5. I can finally fucking breathe seeing you goddamn bastards.

Debra Anastasia

#6. The U.S.'s major strength factor and weapon is its economy. If you cripple it, you cripple the military.

Chester W. Nimitz

#7. It's not that bullying is any worse today. The impulse for cruelty is the same impulse. The only difference is that the tools to achieve that have become more sophisticated.

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#8. Once beyond the self, however, holiness is no longer possible, because now, there is nothing left to give and no-one left to do the giving.

Bernadette Roberts

#9. I would say realistically, and I don't want any headlines, but I would say realistically that next year would be the last year.

Vin Scully

#10. This book is a labor of love. It is dedicated to people who have cried themselves to sleep because they were 'different'. It is also a celebration of the 'inner outcast' in all of us, and a humble attempt to inspire tolerance, understanding, and acceptance. the intro from the author

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#11. Every member of Congress and every Senator kind of runs their own race with their own message because they don't want to necessarily have dictated from the White House what that message should be.

Christopher Michael Cillizza

#12. People tend to consider beig vulnerable a bad thing. It's not. Vulnerability reminds us that we're human. It keeps us open to giving and receiving love. Without at least a little, we can become someone living n a prison of our own making, where the walls are so thick that no one can get in or out.

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#13. Habit: by choosing a certain behavior ahead of time, and then following that routine when an inflection point arrives. When

Charles Duhigg

#14. You can overcome sadness, loneliness, even terrible loss. But guilt goes with you the grave.

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#15. What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors. Yet, I still wanted to believe they were sorry for causing me pain. p. 128

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#16. For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.

Ramana Maharshi

#17. Don't mistake a lack of sophistication for sweetness.

Lorrie Moore

#18. The hardest part about being an outcast, isn't the love you don't receive. It's the love you long to give that nobody wants.

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