Stephanie Dowrick Quotes

#1. Your attitude to life is far more important in determining your happiness than your money, appearance, social status or talent.

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#2. Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination

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#3. Sound crazy? It may well be, but it is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. p.215

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#4. I made nothing happen very slowly.

Gary McCord

#5. Thinking he was asleep, she vowed quietly, "I'll keep you safe, Max."
His reply was a rumbled whisper. "You're my every dream, Charlotte

Nancy Gideon

#6. The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss.

Edward Young

#7. You really have to focus on what you're doing and just plow ahead no matter what hurdles are thrown in front of you.

George Lucas

#8. What helps most is remembering that such a cry or attack or sly blow is a reflection of that other person's inner state; it is not an omniscient summary of you. Your reaction reflects your own inner state, and that can tell you which aspects of your own inner world are needy of attention. p.291

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#9. Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up.

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#10. I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of a mystery. It is a mystery at an immediate level in the sense that no person is entirely knowable.

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#11. When i look to my past i'm not believe in god but for future god is hope.

Kjiva

#12. LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and kindness. Let yourself rediscover peace in your heart. And, from that secure place, meet whatever comes.

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#13. It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal.

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#14. Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.

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#15. [ ... ] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept the burden that someone 'can't live without you' is unrealistic. It infantilises that person and overburdens you. p.226

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#16. How we feel about our own self, how well or little we know our own self, whether we feel alive inside, largely determine the quality of the time we spend alone, as well as the quality of the relationships we have with other people.

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#17. Happiness
like love
is itself an attitude.

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#18. You are a self and an other.
Your 'others' are in part your own creation.
This in turn affects and shapes your experiences of self.
Your levels of self-awareness and self-acceptance largely shape how you perceive others. p.231

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#19. Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to be kind.

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#20. Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally.

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#21. I was born into the business. My mother was an entertainer. It was natural. But yes, in the next life, I might not do it.

Dina Lohan