"We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves."

-- Sidney Jourard

#Lonely Quotes #Real Quotes #Self Quotes

“Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.”
“Oh, wouldn't the world seem dull and flat with nothing whatever to grumble at?”
“Ideas are nothing, doing is everything”
“There was this one model in French Elle. I canâ€™t imagine what it must be like to be her. She was brunette with big lips and was wearing this tight navy dress by Azzedine someone. She was so beautiful; and the choices she must have. andâ€¦Oh, I would give it all up just to have been born that way because her life will be so easy. She wonâ€™t have to think, and men will fall into her lap andâ€¦Itâ€™s all unfair and I donâ€™t want to even write it. It will never change, and no one wants to admit it but being thin and pretty is the best thing a woman can be.”
“Believe this," he whispered, and kissed her with the sharp, sleek kiss, the silver kiss, so swift and true, and razor sharp, and her warmth was flowing into him.”
“[L]et us say that we are obliged to produce the truth by the power that demands truth and needs it in order to function: we are forced to tell the truth, we are constrained, we are condemned to admit the truth or to discover it.”
“Only when we can accept God as he is can we give up the desire for spiritual experiences that we can feel.”
“Marijuana? It's harmless really, unless you fashion it into a club and beat somebody over the head with it”

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