“They may lack confidence in their ability to leave a romantic relationship when and if necessary. Fear of abandonment eclipses all other… — Stan Tatkin Copy Share Image
“God’s absence in the carnage is due to one single rather unnerving fact; that at some time past He honored our request… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“So many times during the day, Helen had seen a dark presence take hold of the prince, as though he was haunted… — Aria Cunningham Copy Share Image
To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I think that, very often there's a pain that's just too painful to touch. You'll break apart. And I think her mother's… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Fear keeps us rooted in the past. Fear of the unknown, fear of abandonment, fear of rejection, fear of not having enough,… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
One reason why I recommend the abandonment of religious beliefs is because I think those beliefs are wrong. There is no evidence… — Simon LeVay Copy Share Image
Our brain comes hard-wired with an urge to play, one that hurls us into sociability. A child's play both demands and creates… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Under neoliberalism everyone has to negotiate their fate alone, bearing full responsibility for problems that are often not of their own doing.… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“A child can only experience his feelings when there is someone there who fully accepts them, names them and supports them. Another… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
The early symptoms of the disease [California Curse], which break out almost on arrival in Hollywood, are a sense of exaggerated self-importance… — Elinor Glyn Copy Share Image
“Years later, in a high-school biology class, Samuel heard a story about a certain kind of African turtle that swam across the… — Nathan Hill, The Nix Copy Share Image
On the one hand, we have the mass; on the other, its historic goal, located outside of existing society. On one hand,… — Rosa Luxemburg Copy Share Image
“My mother relates to the world through a permeable membrane. She can imagine herself in a different life and has recast herself… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“Of all her putative fathers -- Max Schlepzig and masked extras on one side of the moving film, Franz Pökler and certainly… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“And if we do speak out, we risk rejection and ridicule. I had a best friend once, the kind that you go… — Carolyn Spring Copy Share Image
“Since I spent much of my childhood being left behind and ignored, one might think that, as an adult, moments of perceived… — Penny Reid Copy Share Image
“Meantime, a midsize Labrador mutt cut me off at the cul-de-sac. He was in desperate need of a rubdown. I gave it a thought but feared his bark and constant gruff. I locked eyes then noticed his… — Harold Phifer Copy Share Image
Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us.… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“I wanted, for so long, for someone to understand me better than I understood myself, to take control of me, to save… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
For Americans the contradiction between national ideal and social fact required explanation and correction. Ultimately this contradiction did not lead to the… — Kenneth Keniston Copy Share Image
Because the enormous narcissism of their parents deprived Will and Tom of suitable role models, both brothers learned to identify with absence.… — Mark Z. Danielewski Copy Share Image
The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge "of their own free will" and the abandonment… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
To be one of God's lilies means an interior abandonment of the rarest kind. It means that we are to be infinitely… — Hannah Whitall Smith Copy Share Image
place where man laughs, sings, picks flowers, chases butterflies and pets birds, makes love with maidens, and plays with children. Here he… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The music certainly plays a major role. You can be free enough to comfort each other, to touch each other, to embrace… — Cecil Williams Copy Share Image
We all share a type of physical body that becomes ill or heals for the same reasons. We also share emotional and… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image