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“Fear and shame are the backbone of my self-control. They are my source of inspiration, my insurance against becoming entirely unacceptable. They help me do the right thing. And I am terrified of what I would be without them. Because I suspect that, left to my own devices, I would completely lose control of my life. I'm still hoping that perhaps someday I'll learn how to use willpower like a real person, but until that very unlikely day, I will confidently battle toward adequacy, wielding my crude skill set of fear and shame.”
― Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
― Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
“I had always viewed feelings as a weakness—annoying obstacles on my quest for total power over myself.”
― Hyperbole and a Half
― Hyperbole and a Half
“Question everything. Your love, your religion, your passion. If you don't have questions, you'll never find answers.”
― Slammed
― Slammed
“Being a good person is a very important part of my identity, but being a genuinely good person is time-consuming and complicated.”
― Hyperbole and a Half
― Hyperbole and a Half
“The longer I procrastinate on returning phone calls and emails, the more guilty I feel about it. The guilt I feel causes me to avoid the issue further, which only leads to more guilt and more procrastination. It gets to the point where I don’t email someone for fear of reminding them that they emailed me and thus giving them a reason to be disappointed in me.”
― Hyperbole and a Half
― Hyperbole and a Half
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