"Forgive yourself - no one else will."

-- Maya Angelou

#Forgiving Quotes #Forgive Yourself Quotes

“You and your scars. Please! You don't kill youself like this!" I gesture, holding a wrist turned up to the ceiling, then pretending to cut across it with my other hand. "That's just a cry for help. That's just attention. Everbody knows that. Cutting across just gets you to the hospital. That's just from movies and TV shows and stuff like that. You didn't really try to kill yourself. you just wanted attention, but you screwed up. Try harder next time.”
“You can knock on a deaf man's door forever.”
“A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.”
“When you have it, you spend it. The mistake is to try to spend it when you haven't got it.”
“In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone in their car while she went to buy liquor, she returned to find her daughter with tears running down her cheeks. The guilt and horror Ms. Robinson felt at this sight jolted her into sobriety.”
“When his grandchildren had been little, they had asked if they could hide inside the clock. Now he wanted to gather them and open himself up and hide them among his ribs and faintly ticking heart.”

Source : Paul Harding (2011). “Tinkers”, p.34, Random House
“Poetry is the skin that I have between my body and the world's body.”
“The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.”

Source : Frederick Douglass, Philip Sheldon Foner, Yuval Taylor (1999). “Frederick Douglass: Selected Speeches and Writings”, p.594, Chicago Review Press

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