"The lessons I learned that were most important were the ones that hurt my feelings."

-- Robert Stone

#Hurt Quotes #Teaching Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“I fancy myself as being a fairly competent person.”

Source : "Lisa Ling Helps Women Share Compassion Through Secrets". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. December 24, 2010.
“Im not an insecure person, per se, but I just never saw myself as the girl who walks into a place and everybody goes, Wow.”
“Sometimes identity can be your salvation. It can be liberating to find your place in the world, but at some point, identity can hold you back.”

Source : Source: www.moviesonline.ca
“You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?”
“To be honest with you, most of the times I have fought, there has been a reason.”
“If your life changes, we can change the world, too.”
“Lord, send Your life throughout the entire church. Visit Your church; restore sound doctrine and holy, earnest living. Take away from professing Christians their love of frivolities, their attempts to meet the world on it's own ground, and give back the old love of the doctrines of the Cross and Christ. May free grace and dying love again be the music that refreshes the church and makes her heart exceeding glad.”
“Materializations are often best produced in rooms where there are books. I cannot think of any time when materialization was in any way hampered by the presence of books.”

Source : Shirley Jackson (2006). “The Haunting of Hill House”, p.127, Penguin

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