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    Stephen Fry
    “It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.”
    ― Stephen Fry, Moab Is My Washpot
    tags: body-image, books, depression, insecurity, isolation, language, laughter, literature, philosophy, self-consciousness, self-image, self-loathing, shame, social-anxiety
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    Wendy Wasserstein
    “The trick. . .is to find the balance between the bright colors of humor and the serious issues of identity, self-loathing, and the possibility for intimacy and love when it seems no longer possible or, sadder yet, no longer necessary.”
    ― Wendy Wasserstein
    tags: balance, happiness, humor, identity, intimacy, life, love, sadness, self-loathing
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    Israelmore Ayivor
    “People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally. Action fixes images in their minds and they can carry those images for a long period.”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Ladder
    tags: act, actions, familiar, food-for-thought, images, imaginations, israelmore-ayivor, leader, leaders, leadership, memorize, memory, mind-power, minds, people, perform, performance, personal-development, practical, practically, take-actions, teach, theories, train, verbal, verbally, words
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    John Connolly
    “When one encounters enough strangeness, then what is strange ultimately becomes familiar.
    The mind can accommodate itself to almost anything, given time: pain, grief, loss, even the possibility that the dead talk to the living.”
    ― John Connolly, The Burning Soul
    tags: familiar, grief, loss, mind, pain, strange, time
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    Virginia Satir
    “Los niños necesitan que sus padres sean sus amigos tanto como un balazo.”
    ― Virginia Satir, The New Peoplemaking
    tags: familiar
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    Kamand Kojouri
    “I see them
    and they see me
    but the lovers —
    we recognise one another:
    there is light in our eyes.”
    ― Kamand Kojouri
    tags: believers, beloved, eyes, familiar, god, kamand, kamand-kojouri, know, kojouri, light, love, love-poems, love-quotes, love-worshippers, lovers, loving, recognise, recognize, see, spiritual, spirituality, sufi, sufism, understand, worship, worshippers
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    Diane L. Dunton
    “...reflection can transform something familiar.”
    ― Diane L. Dunton, Living, Learning, Healing: Inspirational Stories from the Heart
    tags: familiar, familiarity-and-attitude, reflection, reflection-on-life, reflection-quotes, transformation, transformation-quotes
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