I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.
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Marilyn Monroe
When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.
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Jess C. Scott
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.
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Mahatma Gandhi
Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having...
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image. If in loving them we do not love what they are, but only their potential likeness to ourselves, then...
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Thomas Merton
More Quotes By Howard Aiken
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
Don't worry about being effective. Just concentrate on being faithful to the truth.
When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved.
Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.
