“The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become.”

Ashley Montagu (June 28, 1905, London, England – November 26, 1999, Princeton, New Jersey)

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“Finally, she’d found a group on Corellia that had helped her deal with her addiction, helped her realize why she felt so empty, so driven. “It took me months of hard digging into myself,” she said. “Months to figure out why I wanted to hurt myself. I finally got it through my head that just because my mother hated and despised me for not being what she wanted me to be, I didn’t have to hate myself. I didn’t have to destroy myself in some twisted attempt to please her.”

― A.C. Crispin, Rebel Dawn

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