My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.
BEATRICE SPARKSThey don’t think “I care,” “I hurt,” or “I have feelings.” It just seems like I’m always “wrong,” always “selfish,” always “self-centered” and everything else that’s negative and destructive.
More Beatrice Sparks Quotes
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I wouldn’t intentionally hurt anyone in this whole world. I wouldn’t hurt them physically or emotionally, how then can people so consistently do it to me?
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one day I’ll be old, without ever having really been young
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They have accepted me as an individual, as a personality, as an entity. I belong! I am important! I am somebody!
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This morning when I left Mom’s parting words were, “Come straight home after school.” Wow! Like I’m going to get stoned at 3:30—it doesn’t sound so bad at that.
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She didn’t know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.
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The complete bottom has fallen out of my life.
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I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.
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Sometimes I think we’re all trying to be shadows of each other, trying to buy the same records and everything even if we don’t like them. Kids are like robots, off an assembly line, and I don’t want to be a robot!
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Why is life so difficult? Why can’t we be just ourselves and have everyone accept us the way we are?
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I feel like Alice in Wonderland. Maybe Lewis G Carroll was on drugs too.
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The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus “Not me! I didn’t think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.
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Nobody’s talking to me, but nobody’s hassling me either. I guess you can’t have everything.
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Maybe the new me will be different.
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Sometimes fantasies are better than life.
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Lying – remembering beauty in truth.
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