Siavosh Vossough Quotes & Sayings

I felt loss at every hand. The
loss of self-esteem is a celebrated symptom, and my own sense of self
had all but disappeared, along with any self-reliance. This loss can
quickly degenerate into dependence, and from dependence into infantile
dread. One dreads the loss of all things, all people close and dear.
There is an acute fear of abandonment. — William Styron

Vividly seeing that love had always been my mother's guide, I could finally release my anger - let go of it there in the woods - and move past it. — Aspen Matis

What unites the women who seek to reduce their weight is the fact that they look for an answer to life's problems in the control of their bodies and appetites. A woman who walks through the doors of a weight watching organization and enters the women's reduction movement has allowed her culture to persuade her that significant relief from personal and cultural dilemma is to be found in the reduction of her body, thus, her decision, although she may not be aware of it, enters the domain of the body politik and becomes symbolically a political act." p.101 — Kim Chernin

That's a good attitude. You should hate me more, curse me more, and detest me! Then you should take the power of that hatred and use it to survive this rotten world. — Hideaki Sorachi

If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again. — Wayne W. Dyer

I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American. — David Mamet

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment. — Irving Babbitt

The present participle is the Devil himself, she thought, now that we are in the place for believing in Devils. — Virginia Woolf

Motivation fuels the attitude that builds the Confidence necessary to sustain the Persistence. — Zig Ziglar

The NSA is the only branch of the government that actually listens to people. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

He knew he would always remember her, standing there with that expectant, forward-looking smile, enough to turn the future into summer. — Willa Cather

My light must shine, so that the darkness will disappear. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When my time comes, I would like to know that I have repaid my debt to those who have made a difference in my life. And to be at peace knowing that I stopped the cancer from spreading to those I love. — Dave Pelzer