"I fear, as any daughter would, losing myself back into the mother."

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Source : Kim Chernin (1984). “In My Mother's House”, Perennial

#Daughter Quotes #Mother Quotes #Losing Quotes

“The only way to really have safe sex is to abstain. From drinking.”
“At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book”
“If you have never felt your soul poured out before the Lord with a consequent exhaustion, it is doubtful whether you have advanced far in the school of prayer.”
“Let my Peace which passes all understanding infill and enfold you, for when you are at Peace within, you reflect Peace without, and all those souls you meet will feel that Peace.”
“You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.”
“It is one thing to say with the prophet Amos, "Let justice roll down like mighty waters," and quite another to work out the irrigation system.”

Source : William Sloane Coffin “A Passion for the Possible”, Westminster John Knox Press
“Poetry resonates differently in each culture; it doesn't in America.”
“The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.”

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