"The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make……" — Caroline Knapp
"The freedom to choose...means the freedom to make mistakes, to falter and fail, to come face-to-face with your own flaws and limitations and fears and secrets, to live with the terrible uncertainty that necessarily attends the construction of a self."
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56 Quotes by Caroline Knapp
Caroline Knapp has 56 quotes on this site.
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Alcoholism is the disease of more.
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I once heard a woman who had lost her dog say that she felt as though a color were suddenly…
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Dogs possess a quality that's rare among humans -- the ability to make you feel valued just by being you…
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It happened this way: I fell in love and then, because the love was ruining everything I cared about, I…
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Trying to describe the process of becoming an alcoholic is like trying to describe air. It's too big and mysterious…
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When you love somebody, or something, its amazing how willing you are to overlook the flaws.
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Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.
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Love—the desire to love and be loved, to hold and be held, to give love even if your experience as…
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So it persists, for many of us, hunger channeled into some internal circuitry of longing, routed this way and that,…
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When I drank, the part that felt dangerous and needy grew bright and strong and real. The part that coveted…
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Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine…
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When you're starving or wrapped up in a cycle of binge-ing-and-purging, or sexually obsessed with (someone), it is very hard…
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If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like…
— Zebulon Pike
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Nor was civil society founded merely to preserve the lives of its members; but that they might live well: for…
— Aristotle
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Rashness attends youth, as prudence does old age.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance…
— Teresa of Avila
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Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has…
— Seneca the Younger
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What rage for fame attends both great and small! Better be damned than mentioned not at all.
— John Wolcot
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He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers and ceases when he has no more to say is…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A country of a thousand war-chariots cannot be administered unless the ruler attends strictly to business, punctually observes his promises,…
— Confucius
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He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes…
— Mencius
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I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me…
— Tim Duncan
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Thousands of people are being buried and no one attends the funerals,' said one of the soldiers. 'In peacetime it's…
— Vasily Grossman
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Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching worry that it…
— Steve Buyer
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