"We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern."

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Source : Harriet Lerner (2014). “The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships”, p.17, Harper Collins

Harriet Lerner

#Patterns Quotes #Steps Quotes #Persons Quotes

“I want to give a picture of Dublin so complete that if the city suddenly disappeared from the earth it could be reconstructed out of my book.”
“Old God sure was in a good mood when he made this place.”
“Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.”
“People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so”

Source : "Fictional character: Michonne". The Walking Dead TV Series, "Say the Word", www.imdb.com. 2012.
“Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!”
“So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.”
“For me, Fellini was like a watermelon. It is there. A watermelon cannot die.”
“But what we can never do is change the story that has made us what we are. It's a story completely dictated by the accumulation of life's manifold complexities—its capacity for astonishment and horror, for sanguinity and hopelessness, for pellucid light and the most profound darkness. We are what has happened to us.”

Source : "The Moment: A Novel".

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