Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only in your imagination — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of a mystery.… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
“[...] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
“[...] as I have seen with other people whose sense of their work is vocational rather than pragmatic, my desire to write, to understand… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
LISTEN to the small, quiet voice within that only ever guides you with love and compassion. Let yourself receive the inspiration of beauty and… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
Whatever our background, culture or race, what rewards us most powerfully and consistently are the most deceptively simple abilities of all: the ability to… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
“You are a self and an other. Your 'others' are in part your own creation. This in turn affects and shapes your experiences of… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up. — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
It should not be difficult to accept the idea that someone else is, in 'your experience of them', in part your self-creation. But it… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
It is precisely in relationships of intimacy that your craziness (and mine) will be hardest to conceal. — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
Imagine the world we would live in if we dared to see all of life as sacred - unconditionally. — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
What helps most is remembering that such a cry or attack or sly blow is a reflection of that other person’s inner state; it… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
Happiness can come in a single moment. And in a single moment it can go again. But a single moment does not create it.… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
![“[...] the responsibility for their wellbeing and for the fundamental meaning they give to their own life must, in adulthood, be theirs. To accept the burden that someone 'can't live without you' is unrealistic. It infantilises that person and overburdens you. p.226” quote by Stephanie Dowrick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/405/stephanie-dowrick-28632_adulthood_the-responsibility-for-their-wellbeing-a_162017.jpg)
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