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"You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self - respect out of the equation."
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"And I'm not going to get any thinner or any younger, my ass is going to hit the ground, if it hasn't already--and I want to be with somebody who can still see me in here. I'm still in here. And I don't want to be resented or despised for changing...I'd rather be alone."
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"Be excellent in your own terms. Do not look for approval from a single soul on this planet. Respect yourself and in time the whole world will respect you. It is a tragedy of modern life that the light of truth scares the society much more than the darkness of ignorance."
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Personal Development
"Don't cry for someone who would love smiling when your tears are flowing."
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Personal Development
"To gain self-respect, you need to put yourself first."
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Personal Development
"Respect yourself enough to walk away from what doesn't serve you."
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Personal Development
"If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
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Personal Development
"The admiration you lavish on others phenomenally reflects the respect you give yourself."
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Personal Development
"Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious."
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Personal Development
"You'd be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you'd do, when you take self - respect out of the equation."
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Personal Development
"He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."
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"Mary had become anxious in her old age, and she hated being away from the house for long. She'd hold the girls' hands tightly and calm herself by telling them what she would make for first frost that year - pork tenderloins with nasturtiums, dill potatoes, pumpkin bread, chicory coffee. And the cupcakes, of course, with all different frostings, because what was first frost without frosting? Claire had loved it all, but Sydney had only listened when their grandmother talked of frosting. Caramel, rosewater - pistachio, chocolate almond."
Nostalgia
"Adolescence is like having only enough light to see the step directly in front of you."
Adolescence
"Motherhood, true motherhood, was what went on when no one else could see."
Motherhood
"It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon."
Nostalgia
"Bay remembered the Waverley house full of pumpkin pie scents in the fall. There had been mountains of maple cakes with violets hidden inside, lakes of butternut soups with chrysanthemum petals floating on top."
Nostalgia
"I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was."
Reinvention
"To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story."
Memory
"Once he'd asked, 'Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room.'She had laughed and said, 'I've read them all. I want to remember them the way they were. If I read them now, the endings will have changed."
Memory
"Some of Bay's fondest memories were of lying under the apple tree in the summer while Claire gardened and the apple tree tossed apples at her like a dog trying to coax its owner into playing catch."
Nostalgia
"Sitting at the old patio table she'd cleared of leaves, she smiled and leaned back. The stars looked twisted in the limbs of the trees, like Christmas lights. She felt like part of the hollow around her was filling. She'd come here with too many expectations."
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