Craving that old sweet ...

Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mother\'s and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood to mood, advancing and retreating-the quintessential model of two-mindedness.
Craving that old sweet oneness yet dreading engulfment, wishing to be our mother's and yet be our own, we stormily swing from mood to mood, advancing and retreating-the quintessential model of two-mindedness.
 Judith Viorst

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.
 Judith Viorst
The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone.
 Judith Viorst
Our mother gives us our earliest lessons in love- and its partner, hate. Our father-our "second other"-elaborates on them.
 Judith Viorst
For many men the denial of dependency on their mother is repeated in their subsequent relationships, sometimes by an absence of any sexual interest in women, sometimes by a pattern of loving and leaving them.
 Judith Viorst
There is a time to separate from our mother. But unless we are ready to separate-unless we are ready to leave her and be left-anything is better than separation.
 Judith Viorst