"I have a lot of -- I struggle with a lot of shame over my past. There have been times when I've been incredibly embarrassed about the things that happened to me. I don't think that there is one human being in this world that would wish, you know, to be injured as a kid the way -- in ways that I was."

-- Traci Lords

#Struggle Quotes #Kids Quotes #Past Quotes

“Almost all women have hearts full of pity.”
“I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one of the reasons I went into music, and especially into composing is that I love setting up an environment where I can be by myself for long periods of time and have everything as quiet as possible, either to think about sound, or to think about ideas, or just to focus on things that are important to me.”
“There is no greater love than that a man lays down his life for his neighbor. When you hear someone complaining and you struggle with yourself and do not answer him back with complaints; when you are hurt and bear it patiently, not looking for revenge; then you are laying down your life for your neighbor.”
“Could we see when and where we are to meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye.”
“My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.”
“We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places, it is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.”
“I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I â€” as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again â€” it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.”
“I'm not very impressed by people who yell "traitor" and "communist" and other less printable things. I don't like it.”

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