“Fits of anger, vexation,and bitterness against ourselves tend to pride and they spring from no other source than self-love, which is disturbed and upset at seeing that it is imperfect.”
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“Life is like playing the game of chess against yourself, to win, you must beat the blacks of you.”
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“When we pity ourselves all we see is ourselves. When we have problems, all we see are our problems and that's all what we love of talking about. We don't see the good things in our lives.”
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“In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.”
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“I wanted us to share the sense that the number of wrong moves far exceeds the number of good moves, to share the frightening instability of the correct decision, to bond in being confounded.”
― The Book of My Lives
― The Book of My Lives
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