Standing up for yourself is about more than flinging barbed-wire insults around. Its about picking your battles, knowing when to fight, knowing exactly what and who is worth fighting for.
I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?
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Stephanie Lennox
Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.
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George Carlin
Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.
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Amy Carmichael
The thing about learning how to fight is that– some of us are not born with that desire. They say some are born fighters; but they don't usually point out that others just aren't. Some of us are forced by life to take up arms...
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C. Joybell C.
Hugh and I have been together for so long that in order to arouse extraordinary passion, we need to engage in physical combat. Once, he hit me on the back of the head with a broken wineglass, and I fell to the floor pretending to...
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David Sedaris
More Quotes By Paula Stokes
The truth doesn't get you very far on the streets, or in a group home, or even in high school. That's probably why the idea of Liars, Inc. appealed to me. Everybody lies. You might as well get paid for it.
Maybe I could dole out the truth in tiny pieces that, once assembled, would make a picture that resembled a reality in which I hadn’t done anything wrong.
Monsters don’t get happy endings.
I laugh as an unfamiliar feeling envelops me. I think it might be happiness.
I get it. Traveling halfway across the world to run into the boy you grew up with, getting back together after years apart–that’s an epic fucking fairytale. I don’t blame you for being seduced by it. I guess I just thought what we had was...
