Stephen Grosz Quotes

#1. Seriously, I don't know any American girl who can resist an English accent.

Stephanie Perkins

#2. Being present, whether with children, with friends, or even with oneself, is hard work. But isn't this attentiveness
the feeling that someone is trying to think about us
something we want more than praise?

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#3. The assistance you need will be provided by the universe as soon as you convert your readiness to willingness.

Wayne Dyer

#4. When I'm in a couple, I feel I'm disappearing, dying - losing my mind.

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#5. He seemed never to have acquired a skill that we all need: the ability to make another person worry about us.

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#6. we all try to silence painful emotions. but when we succeed in feeling nothing we lose the only means we have of knowing what hurts us and why.

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#7. There cannot be change without loss

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#8. At one time or another, most of us have felt trapped by things we find ourselves thinking or doing, caught by our own impulses or foolish choices; ensnared in some unhappiness or fear; imprisoned by our own history. We feel unable to go forward and yet we believe that there must be a way.

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#9. A lot of people, especially psychoanalysts, assume that happiness can only be found in a couple - but not all of us are made for a relationship.

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#10. And Hale was devoted to President Kennedy, and there was some talk following the assassination that Hale had warned the President not to go to Dallas, and the connotation was that it would be physically dangerous for him to do so.

Lindy Boggs

#11. Our buddha nature is as good as any buddha's buddha nature.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#12. Retrench in everything that is bad and worthless, and improve in everything that is good and beautiful.

Susa Young Gates

#13. For a minute, the fantasy frightened her, but ultimately, this fear saved her from feeling alone.

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#14. I don't mumble anymore, collector.
I'm not a collector anymore, pipsqueak.

Victoria Scott

#15. The bigger the front, the bigger the back.

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#16. In order to thrive as artists we need to be available to the universal flow. When we put a stopper on our capacity for joy by anorectically declining the small gifts of life, we turn aside the larger gifts as well.

Julia Cameron

#17. Being loved is the problem, because love is a demand - when you're loved, someone wants more of you.

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#18. It is less painful, it turns out, to feel betrayed than to feel forgotten.

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#19. I knew tht we all have the capacity to act in self-destructive ways, nevertheless i had a kind of faith that the desire to live was more powerful. now, instead, i felt its fragility. peter's suicide made me feel that the battle between the forces of life and death was far more evenly pitched.

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#20. Have you noticed the debt is exploding? And it's not all because of Medicare.

Ron Paul

#21. My breakdown was like a furnace and what was burned away was any belief in my own feelings

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#22. Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons.

Barry N. Malzberg

#23. As he spoke, I had the mental image of a small boy switching on the nightlight, not because he wants to be able to find his parents during the night, but because he fears his parents will forget him - lose him - in the dark.

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#24. All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them. But if we cannot find a way of telling our story, our story tells us- we dream these stories, we develop symptoms, or we find ourselves acting in ways we don't understand.

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#25. When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.

Tracy Chapman

#26. I want to change, but not if it means changing.

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#27. Be a wife of whom he can make no complaint, Margaret. That is the best advice I can give to you. You will be his wife; that is to be his servant, his possession. He will be your master. You had better please him.

Philippa Gregory

#28. Closure is just as delusive-it is the false hope that we can deaden our living grief.

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#29. As a child, that had meant looking forward to holidays and birthdays and, most of all, becoming a grown-up. Upon achieving adulthood she had discovered that being a grown-up wasn't nearly as satisfying as she had anticipated. What was more, the future was uncomfortably unpredictable. At

Jayne Ann Krentz

#30. There is only one way to overcome the trials of life.
And that is to, by faith, in Jesus name, overcome them.

Calvin W. Allison