My father insisted that the ...

My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.
My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.
 Lisa Lutz

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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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 William Ellery Channing
Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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 Wayne Dyer
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
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 Richard Grenier
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
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 Saint Francis de Sales
For a human being, sadness is as powerful as terror. Sadness makes a warrior shed tears of blood.
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 Carlos Castaneda

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While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.
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 Lisa Lutz
Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.
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 Lisa Lutz
We knew we were doomed. The kiss was a warm acceptance of years of bickering, years of me consuming foods that I found barely edible and Henry tidying up after someone who already thought she had tidied up. When I kissed Henry I wasn't imagining Ex-boyfriend #13; I was picturing Husband #1.
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 Lisa Lutz
I'm sorry you're angry is not an apology.
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 Lisa Lutz