"Strauss admits to being obsessed by his mother's rejection, and with the resultant rents in self-esteem. The Game echoes with disturbingly abusive comments leveled at his adolescent self, a self he feels was unacceptable. With bravado, he expresses regret that he didn't rack up more sexual conquests in his teens; in person, he expresses a truer regret that he was intimidated by life itself."

-- Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#Mother Quotes #Regret Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes

“In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.”

Source : "Let’s Renew VAWA Today" by Carolyn Maloney, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 28, 2013.
“For observing nature, the best pace is a snail's pace.”

Source : Edwin Way Teale (1987). “Circle of the seasons: the journal of a naturalist's year”, Olympic Marketing Corp
“Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.”
“The precept to worship God 'in spirit and in truth' recommand to worship him as an inward and moral force, without physical attributes and with no relation to fears and egoist wishes.”
“From all of us Scarborough girls, greetings and thanks. This task required two, working together, trusting each other. It required the "us," not the "I." For that is true love, is it not?”
“You are all a lost generation.”
“Heâ€™d protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price.”
“The regenerate man's desires are rectified; they are set on God himself, and the things above... Before, he saw no beauty in Christ, for which he was to be desired; but now he is all he desires, he is altogether lovely... regenerating grace sets the affections so firmly on God, that the man is disposed, at God's command, to quit his hold of every thing else, in order to keep his hold of Christ... If the stream of our affections were never thus turned, we are, doubtless, going down the stream into the pit.”

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