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• Connection gives purpose and meaning to our lives.

  Brené Brown

  Inspirational Life, Giving, Purpose

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.18, Penguin

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• Resounding…with wit, courage, and compassion. Skinny will speak to everyone who has ever felt invisible or unlovable.

  Kathi Appelt

  Compassion, Skinny, Speak

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• If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they're not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.

  Helen Hunt

  Real, People, Unattractive

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• Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed. I’ve had many years of recovery and therapy, years filled with intimate and devoted friendships, yet I still struggle. I know that when someone gets a big slice of pie, it doesn’t mean there’s less for me. In fact, I know that there isn’t even a pie, that there’s plenty to go around, enough food and love and air. But I don’t believe it for a second. I secretly believe there’s a pie. I will go to my grave brandishing my fork.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Struggle, Recovery

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.86, Penguin

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• 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.

  Keith Ablow

  Mother, Children, Father

  Keith Ablow (2015). “Compulsion”, p.299, Pan Macmillan

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• If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

  Carl Rogers

  Self Esteem, People, Majority

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• I want to ask him if it’s possible that a girl can be born unlovable, or does she just become that way?

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Doe, Want

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable.

  Quentin Crisp

  Mean, Hands, Ifs

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• Show me how to love the unlovable
  Show me how to reach the unreachable
  Help me now to do the impossible...Fo rgiveness

  Matthew West

  How To Love, Helping, Impossible

  Song: Forgiveness, Album: Into the Light, 2012

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• The Aztec gods and goddesses are, as far as we have known anything about them, an unlovely and unlovable lot. In their myths there is no grace or charm, no poetry. Only this perpetual grudge, grudge, grudging, one god grudging another, the gods grudging men their existence, and men grudging the animals. The goddess of love is goddess of dirt and prostitution, a dirt-eater, a horror, without a touch of tenderness.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Animal, Love Is, Men

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.7472, Delphi Classics

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• Nancy Reagan would just run up to these kids [with really painful disabilities and deformities] and hold them and pick them up... because I think she felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Running, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Eleanor Roosevelt was painfully shy, painfully shy. So she overcompensated. In the same way that Nancy Reagan felt unattractive and unlovable and so everything had to be - hair had to be perfect, and the makeup and the clothes. Because she thought, "They don't think I'm pretty."

  Cynthia Nixon

  Thinking, Makeup, Clothes

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Communities are made up of the unlovable as well as the lovable.

  Dorothy Day

  Community, Lovable, Made

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• I think Nancy Reagan felt so judged all the time and she felt so unlovable.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Thinking, Nancy, Felt

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Even animals who sometimes seem unlovable to humans, have also feelings. They can suffer just as we do.

  Sabrina Le Beauf

  Animal, Feelings, Suffering

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• I think the whole concept of dating is deeply flawed, so maybe it's a good thing to be undateable. There's a difference between being unlovable and undateable.

  Mickey Sumner

  Thinking, Differences, Dating

  Source: collider.com

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• Emulation is not rivalry. Emulation is the child of ambition; rivalry is the unlovable daughter of envy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Daughter, Children, Ambition

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• Bring on the fruitcakes, we want a fruitcake for an unlovable seat.

  Matthew Parris

  Fruitcake, Want, Seats

  1997 On the day before the Kensington and Chelsea Conservatives chose Alan Clark as their parliamentary candidate. In the Daily Mail, 26 Jan.

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• Stated baldly, charity certainly means one of two things–pardoning unpardonable acts, or loving unlovable people.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Two, People

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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• Often girls feel deeply cared about as small children but then find as we develop willpower and independent thought that the world stops affirming us, that we are seen as unlovable.

  Bell Hooks

  Girl, Children, Independent

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• The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway... it's a paradox.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Heart, Health

  Christiane Northrup, M.D. (2017). “A Daily Dose of Women's Wisdom”, p.33, Hay House, Inc

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• All I'd ever heard my entire life in my family was, "Nobody wanted you, and we took you in." When you get that into your head at a tender age, you really feel like you are an unlovable human being, and then you behave like one. That's exactly what I had done. It took me many years to deal with my own violence and find my own niche.

  Sam Hamill

  Years, Age, Done

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.

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• Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Mean, Unbelievable Things

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