If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
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Michael Bassey Johnson
But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.
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Bell Hooks
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
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W. Somerset Maugham
I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. <span style="margin:15px;...
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Alysha Speer
To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation; we need to see over-all patterns in our lives. We need hope, the sense of a future. And we need freedom (or,...
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Oliver Sacks
More Quotes By Lena Headey
Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.
There's nothing more exciting for an actor than a chance to lose, to be someone who has lost - especially if it's someone who starts off with a veneer of control. To be broken is wonderful.
For me, horror movies are a real escape.
Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.
