Quotes & Sayings About Mentally Abusive Fathers

The main thing for a gymnast is total concentration while competing. At such moments one has to put everything else behind. I know that other gymnasts can do so with a smile, but I can't. And I don't even try to. — Ludmilla Tourischeva

In work, it is possible to find commitment, attachment, chemistry, and connection. In fact, it's high time that more people acknowledged the electric pull that women can feel for their profession, the exciting heat of ambition and frisson of success. — Rebecca Traister

Two reasons why people hate and/or fight change: (1) People fear the unknown; and (2) There are always people profiting from how things are. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

We drove in to Biarritz and left the car outside a very Ritz place. — Ernest Hemingway,

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling. — Sarah Addison Allen

It was one of those ridiculous arrangements that couples make when they are separating, but before they are divorced - when they still imagine that children and property can be shared with more magnanimity than recrimination. — John Irving

We may not have been perfect, or even acceptable by anyone else's standards. But together, we were perfect.
Together, we were just us.
Battered and broken. Dark and difficult. Impulsive and scared. — T.M. Frazier

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim. — Haruki Murakami

Okra is essentially a squid that grows in the ground instead of swimming in the ocean. — John Sandford

When she drinks the coffee I made, I look at the redness of her lips and wish I could just stand up, walk over, and kiss them. I want to feel the flesh of them and the softness against my own. I want to breathe in her and with her. I want to be able to put my teeth to her neck and have my fingers touch her back and run them through the lovely, mild yellow color of her hair. — Markus Zusak

Being aware of our feelings sounds easy, but it's not because many of us spend our entire lives pushing feelings aside as we try to please others. — Sue Patton Thoele