Famous Quotes about confidence

Bell Hooks famous quote #359

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they choose to be intimate with are frozen in time unable to allow themselves to love for fear that the loved one will abandon them. If the first woman they passionately loved the mother was not true to her bond of love then how can they trust that their partner will be true to love. Often in their adult relationships these men act out again and again to test their partners love. While the rejected adolescent boy imagines that he can no longer receive his mothers love because he is not worthy as a grown man he may act out in ways that are unworthy and yet demand of the woman in his life that she offer him unconditional love. This testing does not heal the wound of the past it merely reenacts it for ultimately the woman will become weary of being tested and end the relationship thus reenacting the abandonment. This drama confirms for many men that they cannot put their trust in love. They decide that it is better to put their faith in being powerful in being dominant.
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John Keats quote #54 from Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

I almost wish we were butterflies and livd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain.
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Betty Smith quote #225 from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

I know thats what people say-- youll get over it. Id say it too. But I know its not true. Oh youll be happy again never fear. But you wont forget. Every time you fall in love it will be because something in the man reminds you of him.
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