"I think a huge part is how we're socialized growing up to see our value and worth as being tied into a relationship and how our culture teaches us a distorted sense of romantic love - can't live without you, can't breathe without you, I'll die without you. As teenage girls we believe that level of emotional intensity and dramatics equates with real love. We're also taught that if we date lots of people, then we're sluts, so at an early age we put all our eggs into one basket, so to speak, and concentrate on "the one"."

-- Rachel Lloyd

#Girl Quotes #Growing Up Quotes #Teenage Quotes

“Instead of looking outside of ourselves and counting potential enemies, fasting summons us to turn our glance inward, and to take the measure of our greatest challenge: the self, the ego, in our own eyes and as others see us.”
“I think ultimately that sense of hope is something that even as a little kid I was able to kind of grab onto.”

Source : "'Star Trek Beyond' stars on 'uncomfortable conversations,' Sulu's sexual orientation and the future". Interview with Marc Bernardin, www.latimes.com. July 21, 2016.
“To create anythingâ€¦ is to believe, if only momentarily, you are capable of magic.”
“Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself.”

Source : Man for Himself (1947) ch. 4
“Because I thought I was in love. And when you think you're in love, you are willing to stick it out and make it work until it is love.”

Source : Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.188, Simon and Schuster
“Every home is a house of learning either for good or otherwise.”
“You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.”
“A human action becomes genuinely important when it springs from the soil of a clear-sighted awareness of the temporality and the ephemerally of everything human. It is only this awareness that can breathe any greatness into an action.”

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