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"I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was a liar and probably always would be a liar. It was her way of fighting for survival--the quick easy glib denial. It was a child's weapon--and she'd probably never got out of using it. If I wanted Sheila, I must accept her as she was--be at hand to prop up the weak places. We've all got our weak places. Mine were different from Sheila's, but they were there."
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"The closest thing to perfection is imperfection."
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Personal Development
"It's not that I've been invited to the hole I'm standing in. It's that I accepted the invitation."
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Personal Development
"Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it."
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Personal Development
"If you dream of becoming perfect, you never will.Be satisfied with being imperfect and that will make you perfect."
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Personal Development
"The fullness of life's balancing grace will demand the symmetry of recompense for all your loss and pain."
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Personal Development
"Pain dutifully reminds me that the world is terribly imperfect, but it faithfully helps me appreciate the world on those days when it's a little closer to being perfect."
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Personal Development
"Be open minded like the sky. Be accepting like the ocean. Be loving like a flower."
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Personal Development
"If the wind brushes against you, do not complain; it brushes against everyone."
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Personal Development
"You do not need to make everyone happy, because you are not paid for."
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Personal Development
"You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them."
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"To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness."
Communication
"I'm going to marry him. And if he thinks he can get divorced and married every two or three years in the approved Hollywood fashion, well, he never made a bigger mistake in his life. He's going to marry and stick to me."
Relationship
"What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real--significant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scene--the scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. That's when individuality has a chance."
Life
"Curious things, habits. People themselves never knew they had them."
People
"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."
Living
"Where there is murder, anything can happen."
Danger
"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes."
Time
"Who was there to guard youth from pain and death - youth who could not, who had never been able to, guard itself? Did they know too little? Or was it that they knew too much, and therefore thought they knew it all?"
Youth
"More children suffer from interference than from noninterference."
Parenting
"It's extraordinary, the amount of misunderstandings there are even between two people who discuss a thing quite often - both of them assuming different things and neither of them discovering the discrepancy."
Communication
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