It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

Patty Duke
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  1. Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries.

  2. From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get simply to arm ourselves.

  3. Without a sense of humor, I would have been gone a long time ago.

  4. I knew from a very young age that there was something very wrong with me.

  5. I never did quite fit the glamour mode. It is life with my husband and family that is my high now.

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