#if

You were tossed away like a pair of beautiful, brand new shoes that did not quite fit. ↗

— Donna K. Childree

#adoption #dysfunctional-families #dysfunctional-family #mothers #the-wayward-gifted

Hacking into a victim of crime's phone is a sort of poetically elegant manifestation of a modus operandi the tabloids have. ↗

— Steve Coogan

#elegant #hacking #into #manifestation #phone

Of all my wife's relations I like myself the best. ↗

— Joseph Cook

#i #like #myself #relations #wife

Everybody has basically the same family, it's just reconfigured slightly differently from one to the next. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#differently #everybody #family #just #next

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#feels #grave #haul #into #just

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#inner life #inordinate #largely #life #literature

The need to exert power, when thwarted in the open fields of life, is the more likely to assert itself in trifles. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#exert #fields #itself #life #likely

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#built #higher #idiot #imagining #life

Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent. ↗

— Shahrukh Khan

#failure #life #part #permanent #success

While there's life, there's fear. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#life #while