"There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it isn't. What they really want is to be punished for their sins, real and imagined - or for someone else's"

-- Jed Rubenfeld

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“Doing what you want to do is easy. Doing what you have to do is hard.”

Source : "'Gun Culture' - What About the 'Fatherless Culture'?" by Larry Elder, www.realclearpolitics.com. January 17, 2013.
“In order to avoid contention, never contradict anyone, except in case of sin or some danger to a neighbor; and when necessary to contradict others, and to oppose your opinion to theirs, do it with so much mildness and tact, as not to appear to do violence to their mind, for nothing is ever gained by taking up things with excessive warmth and hastiness.”
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
“Each tree has its own personality, i chose them by the way I felt at the moment. Sometimes they even change my sentiments. It's kind of a spiritual experience.”
“I don't know if I've ever been in a clique. The older I've gotten, the more I've realized what a true friend really is. So my friendship circle has changed a bit.”

Source : "Selena Gomez On Dating: 'I’m Always Going To Be The Girl You Take Home To Your Parents'". Teen Vogue Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 4, 2013.
“The Spirit of prayer makes us so intimate with God that we scarcely pass through an experience before we speak to Him about it, either in supplication, in sighing, in pouring out our woes before Him, in fervent requests, or in thanksgiving and adoration.”

Source : Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing
“It’s the quiet life of obedience that will earn a hearing”

Source : Steve Farrar (2006). “King Me: What Every Son Wants and Needs From His Father”, p.171, Moody Publishers
“Cowards, I believe, are people who are afraid to embrace what they want or need in a natural, honest way.”

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