"When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future."

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Source : David Richo (2011). “Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love and Intimacy”, p.13, Shambhala Publications

David Richo

#Damage Quotes #Trustworthiness Quotes #Ability Quotes

“The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.”
“Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.”
“To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else, and shall study the work he has to do with enthusiastic interest in every detail pertaining to it, and content himself with nothing less than complete success.”
“I think we, sometimes, try to fill a void with so many other things that we make the wound deeper & prevent it from ever healing properly.”
“Abandonment doesn't have the sharp but dissipating sting of a slap. It's like a punch to the gut, bruising your skin and driving the precious air from your body.”

Source : Tayari Jones (2012). “Silver Sparrow”, p.53, Algonquin Books
“To some degree we all live with uncertainty. We have no control over the future. Yet we carry on, we persevere, because, I guess, it's the way we're made.”
“We need art as much as we need good works. You need it like food. You need it for inspiration, to keep going on the days that you're low. We need each other in that way.”
“Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.”

Source : "Voice of the Maghreb" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

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