She lacks confidence, she ...

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

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Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.
The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.