"I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away."

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Source : "Nothing to Lose". Book by Lee Child, March 24, 2008.

Lee Child

#Mother Quotes #Long Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Stop giving energy to the things you don't want.”
“I love doing laundry! It's so satisfying. I love the way it smells. I love doing the sheets.”
“In the beginning, yes I did go back... (but) I learned that if it's continued abusive, you just can't stay there. When guys are young, they make mistakes. Nobody's perfect, but, if they do it more than once, then it's definitely a habit”
“I don't feel I'm very present in each moment. I feel like every moment I'm either thinking about something that's coming down the road or something that's been in the past.”
“Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.”
“The paradox is that, while a concern with past and future is obviously central to psychological functioning, to behave as though one were indeed in the past or future, as many do, pollutes the lively possibilities of existence.”

Source : Erving Polster, Miriam Polster (1973). “Gestalt therapy integrated: contours of theory and practice”
“I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.”
“I don't like characters that are left being jerks at the end of the movie.”

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