#unwanted

Behind closed doors, we're all the fat uncool kid. ↗

— Su-Mari Diedericks

#truth-of-life #unpopular #unwanted #life

If only Sam could have stayed just like the Dog, she thought. A comforting friend without the complication of romantic interest.There had to be something she could do to completely discourage him, short of throwing up, or making herself totally unattractive. "I'm thirty-five," she said at last. ↗

— Garth Nix

#unwanted-attention #romantic

I dislike the word 'victim.' I dislike being told that I 'lost' my husband - as if I had idly abandoned you by the side of the railway track like an unwanted pair of old shoes. ↗

— Nina Bawden

#being #dislike #had #husband #i

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#ashamed #dying #graces #humble #let us

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#biggest #disease #feeling #leprosy #rather

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

#degree #freedom #freedom from #gauge #measures

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#feeling #loneliness #most #poverty #terrible

If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I had been wrong to believe myself unfit to raise my daughter. Perhaps the unattached, the unwanted, the unloved, could grow to give love as lushly as anyone else. ↗

— Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#the-unloved #the-unwanted #love

There are so many issues in society - we talk about the violence, the drugs, the unwanted pregnancies - but at the end of the day, it comes down to what we taught our children to be. ↗

— Allan Houston

#children #comes #day #down #end

I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio. ↗

— Joan Rivers

#baby #bath #i #knew #radio