“In my experience, when people take offence at something, it is invariably because they know that there is a large grain of truth in what has offended them. Otherwise, why would they complain about it?”
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“You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.”
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“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another" -Jonathon Swift”
― The Satanic Bible The New Testament Book One
― The Satanic Bible The New Testament Book One
“To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.”
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“The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image.”
― The Way of Chuang Tzu
― The Way of Chuang Tzu
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