Charles L. Whitfield Quotes
In order to survive, the child who cannot develop a strong True Self compensates by developing an exaggerated false or co-dependent self.
Quotes to Explore
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One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.
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Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.
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I've got a waistline to develop.
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Every other year, I was the new boy. I found that the only way to survive was to embrace it, make a little fortress on the outside and to pretend to blend in but not to invest too much because you'll be somewhere else next year.
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The good ideas will survive.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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A poet can survive everything but a misprint.
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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The truth cannot be deceptive, and one who sees it cannot be deceived.
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Marry an outdoors woman. Then if you throw her out into the yard on a cold night, she can still survive.
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We agree that man was not created to survive in space.
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You've got to believe as a filmmaker that if a movie's good enough, it's going to survive; and if it's not, well, it won't.
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Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
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That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end. The fog is like a cage without a key.
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We can't start over and develop a Saturn 5-type vehicle from scratch.
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Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.
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If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.
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And then, if you survive that, they love you again.
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What we make can survive us.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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My college roommate gave me her copy of 'Lord of the Rings,' and I read that probably five or six times - not because I think it's the greatest thing ever written, though some people certainly think it is - but the world he creates is so vivid. So real that he designed its own languages, history and mythology.
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With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is naïve, and there are no real preparations. That, if it got out and spread, would be a larger number.
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Eventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won't operate at its peak.
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In order to survive, the child who cannot develop a strong True Self compensates by developing an exaggerated false or co-dependent self.
