Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't always like you.' But what kind of love is that? It seems to me that comes down to, 'I'm not oblivious to you - that is, you can still hurt my feelings - but I can't stand having you around.' Who wants to be loved like that? Given a choice, I might skip the deep blood tie and settle for being liked. I wonder if wouldn't have been more moved if my own mother had taken me in her arms and said, 'I like you.' I wonder if just enjoying your kid's company isn't more important.

Lionel Shriver's Popular Quotes

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

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Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.

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Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

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It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.

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Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with…

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It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

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Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

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...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who …

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Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

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