You think I don't have feelings, but you're wrong. It's just that I don't have your feelings. I have feelings of my own, and they get me by. --Kevin Spacey's character in Hurlyburly

I have found that it is the willingness to say what I feel and want that makes me feel whole. --Shakti Gawain's Living in the Light

It took me a long time to learn that doing what nourished my spirit was not selfish, but essential. --Kaylan Pickford's Always a Woman

Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys. --Madeleine L'Engle's Walking on Water

I suppose you can't have everything, though my instinctive response to this sentiment is always, "Why not?" --Margaret Halsey's Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. --Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Grief is the rope burns left behind when what we have held to most dearly is pulled out of reach, beyond our grasp. --Stephen Levine's Healing into Life and Death

Passionate investment leaves us vulnerable to loss. And sometimes, no matter how clever we are, we must lose. --Judith Viorst's Necessary Losses

...happiness not only needs no justification, but...it is also the only final test of whether what I am doing is right for me. --Joanna Field's A Life of One's Own

We like knowing what is to happen with small surprises. But sometimes we must endure or create gross shocks that stretch us 'til we grow or break. --Marge Piercy's Stone, Paper, Knife

Now I am in a blind alley with all doors closed to hope, and I don't know how to handle so much fear. --Isabel Allende's Paula

We must come to live within the shifting ambiguities of being both good and bad, wise and foolish, fortunate and unfortunate. --Sheldon Kopp's An End to Innocence

In the depths of my heart, I can't help being convinced that my fellow men, with a few exceptions, are worthless. --Sigmund Freud

When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. --Jonathan Swift

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