Dr. Linda Berman

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The Drawbacks Of Being Judgemental: 5+ Powerful Quotations.
By Dr Linda Berman

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To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.

Audrey Hepburn

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Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Sometimes the most beautiful people are beautifully broken.

Robert M. Drake

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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Henry David Thoreau

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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

G.K. Chesterton

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There is a crack in everything.
That's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

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You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

William Faulkner

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I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.

Stephenie Meyer

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It is astonishing the lengths to which a person, or a people, will go in order to avoid a truthful mirror.

James Baldwin

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The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers.

James Baldwin

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You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all.
James Baldwin

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People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

James Baldwin

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Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

James Baldwin

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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

James Baldwin

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When I was younger, not fitting in felt like a flaw. Now it feels like freedom.
John Mark Green

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We must turn away from the cacaphony of the outerworld to hear the inner voice. When we can dare to live its promptings, then we achieve personhood. We may become strangers to those who thought they knew us, but at least we are no longer strangers to ourselves.
James Hollis

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The paradox of individuation is that we best serve intimate relationship by becoming sufficiently developed in ourselves that we do not need to feed off others.
James Hollis

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"To fully relate to another, one must first relate to oneself. If we cannot embrace our own aloneness, we will simply use the other as a shield against isolation."

Yalom

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Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself….. It is not far, it is within reach, / you have been on it since you were born and did not know.

Walt Whitman

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“Therapists need the courage to be creatively insane.”

Carl Whitaker