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Necessary Losses (1986)
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The need to become a separate self is as urgent as the yearning to merge forever. And as long as we, not our mother, initiate parting, and as long as our mother remains reliably there, it seems possible to risk, and even to revel in, standing alone.
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It is true that the present is powerfully shaped by the past. But it is also true that circumstances of every stage of development can shake up and revise the old arrangements. And it's true that insight at any age keeps us from singing the same sad songs again.
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A normal adolescent isn't a normal adolescent if he acts normal.
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Close friends contribute to our personal growth. They also contribute to our personal pleasure, making the music sound sweeter, the wine taste richer, the laughter ring louder because they are there.
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Our daily existence requires both closeness and distance, the wholeness of self, the wholeness of intimacy.
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Losing is the price we pay for living. It is also the source of much of our growth and gain.
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Friends broaden our horizons. They serve as new models with whom we can identify. They allow us to be ourselves-and accept us that way. They enhance our self-esteem because they think we're okay, because we matter to them. And because they matter to us-for various reasons, at various levels of intensity-they enrich the quality of our emotional life.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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February 2, 1931
(age 93)
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