We were very different, and we disagreed about a lot of things, but he was always so interesting, you know?
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John Green
As I saw it, all my mother's life, my father held her down, like lead strapped to her ankles. She wasbuoyant by nature;she wanted to travel, go to the theater, go to museums. What he wantedwas to lie on the couchwith the Timesover his face,...
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Anonymous
We were more alike than any of the others, neither of us quite human and both hated by the two species we drifted between.
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Kevin Reaver
If two people are so unalike, as you and I, they are pleased when they discover points of agreement. But if they are as alike as Nietzsche and I, they suffer from their differences.
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H.F. Peters
Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference - those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are black, who are older - know...
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Audre Lorde
More Quotes By Stephen Covey
There is no future in a job. The only future is inside oneself. We look inside rather than outside. We become producer rather than consumers of other peoples’ production.
The great obstacle to communication is the tendency to constantly evaluate or moralize with others, creating in them a fear to speak or act. The great key to this communication is to learn to listen attentively with understanding to the other person’s point of view...
Very few people have ever experienced the feeling of being completely understood. When they experience it, it can become one of the richest feelings they have ever had.
It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.
To carefully listen is a powerful way of saying to another that we value that person. When we take the time to understand we communicate that we care, we want to understand, we respect their expression, we give dignity and an individual sense of worth....
