Verdene Soellner Quotes & Sayings

Borderline parents with an insecure sense of self may use jewelry, clothes, and other trappings as proof of their attainment of the idealized happy family, regardless of their means. Rather than unconditional love, nurturance, and open communication, the emphasis may have been on how things appeared to outsiders. Thus the need for expensive cars, respectable jobs, obedient children, well-groomed pets, a carefully landscaped yard.
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It seemed to her that certain parts of the world must produce happiness as they produced peculiar plants which will flourish nowhere else. — Gustave Flaubert

Gods she did not worship, and faith she had none, but love she had and forever. — Pearl S. Buck

I gravitate towards dark comedy, because I'm a huge fan of dark comedy. I always think the most painful thing that you can laugh at is the best. — Jamie Babbit

There are two ways to wash dishes: One is to wash them in order to make them clean; the other is to wash them in order to wash them. — Anthony De Mello