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Our society doesn’t promote self-acceptance and it never will. First of all, self-acceptance doesn’t sell products. Capitalism would fall if we liked ourselves the way we are now. Also, people who feel shamed and inadequate themselves tend to pass it on.
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The strongest relationships are between two people who can live without each other but don’t want to.
Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful.
We are what we believe we are!
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state but a process.
Suspicion often creates what it suspects.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.
It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed.
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