It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Unknown
Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.
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Nicholas Sparks
The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.
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Chuck Palahniuk
Where there is love there is life.
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Mahatma Gandhi
It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to something or someone the more it wants to get away. You feel like some kind of criminal for having felt, for having wanted. For having wanted to be wanted....
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Henry Rollins
More Quotes By Christopher Lasch
Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or...
Man’s collective mastery of nature– even if we could ignore the mounting evidence that this too is largely an illusion– can hardly be expected to confer a sense of confidence and well- being when it coexists with centralizing forces that have deprived individuals of any...
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster.. . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
I despise the cowardly clinging to life, purely for the sake of life, that seems so deeply ingrained in the American temperament.
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.