She didn't know then that life has a way of backing you into a corner. You make your choices when you're far too young to understand their implications, and with each choice you make the field of possibility narrows. You choose a career and other careers are lost to you. You choose a mate and commit to loving no other.
A.S.A. HarrisonAcceptance is supposed to be a good thing - Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. Also compromise, as every couples therapist will tell you. But the cost was high - the damping of expectation, the dwindling of spirit, the resignation that comes to replace enthusiasm, the cynicism that supplants hope. The mouldering that goes unnoticed and unchecked.
A.S.A. HarrisonIn spite of what anyone says it’s women who make the rules.
A.S.A. HarrisonBasic personality traits develop early in life and over time become inviolable, hardwired. Most people learn little from experience, rarely thinking of adjusting their behavior, see problems as emanating from those around them, and keep on doing what they do in spite of everything, for better or worse.
A.S.A. HarrisonTags: life experience people change personality stubbornness behavior
There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.
A.S.A. HarrisonTags: love men women marriage personality relationship
A revolution is taking place within her, as though a lifetime's experience could be outdistanced in the span of a conversation.
A.S.A. HarrisonTags: life change destruction
Every shrink knows that it's not the event itself but how you respond to it that tells the story. Take ten assorted individuals, expose them all to the same life trial, and they will each suffuse it with exquisite personal detail and meaning.
A.S.A. HarrisonTags: life experiences
Life has a way of taking its toll on the person you thought you were.
A.S.A. HarrisonTags: change disappointment personality habits
In asserting that people don't change, what she means is that they don't change for the better. Whereas changing for the worse, that goes without saying.
A.S.A. HarrisonTags: change personality infidelity behavior cheating
We live alone in our cluttered psyches, possessed by our entrenched beliefs, our fatuous desires, our endless contradictions - and like it or not we have to put up with this in one another.
A.S.A. HarrisonTags: life change relationships personalities
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