"Singleness would be recognized as a vital stage of the journey to maturation, a time to learn about who we are, to learn responsibility and self-sufficiency, to identify our true desires, and to confront our inner strengths and demons."

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Source : Harville Hendrix (1993). “Keeping the Love You Find”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

Harville Hendrix

#Single Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Journey Quotes

“Itâ€™s a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize whatâ€™s changed, is you.”
“I come home that morning, after I been fired, and stood outside my house with my new work shoes on. The shoes my mama paid a month's worth a light bill for. I guess that's when I understood what shame was and the color of it too. Shame ain't black, like dirt, like I always thought it was. Shame be the color of a new white uniform your mother ironed all night to pay for, white without a smudge or a speck a work-dirt on it.”
“Man asks and God replies but we don't understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.”
“Reality is not what it used to be.”

Source : "Fictional character: Simon". "In the Mouth of Madness", www.imdb.com. 1994.
“I'm all about high-waisted pants and skirts, pencil skirts, and sheer, long-sleeves in the summer.”

Source : "Exclusive: The Vampire Diaries' Kat Graham on Heartbreak, The Spice Girls, and Wearing Black in the Summer". Interview with Lauren Levinson, www.elle.com. August 20, 2012.
“I would give up everything for you, Giulia" I smiled at him gently. "But you must understand. I should never want a man to give up anything for me. I should want him to feel in winning me he has won the whole world...”

Source : Deanna Raybourn (2015). “Silent in the Sanctuary”, p.274, MIRA
“Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.”
“And when the war is done and youth stone dead, I'd toddle safely home and die--in bed.”

Source : Siegfried Sassoon (2012). “War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon”, p.58, Courier Corporation

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