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Best Quotes by Keith Ablow (Top 10)

  1. But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.
  2. My throat tightened, but I held back the tears and reminded myself that withdrawing from a woman is no different than kicking a drug; you feel shaky and you want it, but eventually the need passes, and you feel restored.
  3. We are, all of us, crippled and twisted. Most of us strive desperately to keep our grotesqueries out of sight and mind. Our suffering is transformed by an alchemy of the soul into addiction, ulcers, strokes, hatred, even war.
  4. Relationships are never chance events.
  5. ...Some people hurt so much they can't take what they need, even when someone wants to give it to them. (106)
  6. But that's the hardest part of healing.' What?' Realizing there's no one to hate.
  7. Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them their self-esteem. When you're three or seven years old, it's less frightening to think of yourself as an unlovable, disappointing screwup than to recognize the fact that you're living with a monster.
  8. God is not attracted to mountaintops or church steeples. God is drawn to suffering, and the dark places it surfaces, which is why sharing pain freely feels very much like love, and may be the same thing. (207)
  9. The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.
  10. A jealous husband is an ugly thing.

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