It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

~ Jane Austen

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It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.

~ Erma Bombeck

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You think if you don’t talk about it, you can just pretend everything is all right? Everything is not all right. Not with us, not with your parents, not with anything today. And if you let yourself go anywhere real with it, you have to acknowledge it.

~ Laura Dave

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To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable, to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

~ Criss Jami

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It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.

~ Rick Riordan

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If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.

~ Diane Wood Middlebrook

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Tell the truth about any situation & you are delivered from lack of progress, but become hypocritical or lying, and you may be in bondage for life.

~ Auliq Ice

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