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“When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.”
― The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
― The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good
“There is no evidence that we've been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.”
― The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
― The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry
“Look in the mirror and say, 'There is none other like you and for that reason alone you are beautiful.”
― Is It Just Me?
― Is It Just Me?
“He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Praising and encouraging are very close to pushing, and when you do that you are trying again to take control of his life. Think about why you are lauding something he’s done. Is it to help raise his self-esteem? That’s manipulation. Is it so he will continue whatever behavior you’re praising? That’s manipulation. Is it so that he’ll know how proud you are of him? That can be a burden for him to carry. Let him develop his own pride from his own accomplishments.”
― Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change
― Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change
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