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“Your friend is insecure, so he can’t go out. Think about it the
other way around. He doesn’t want to go out, so he’s creating a state of anxiety.
He is not pretending to be sick. The anxiety and fear your
friend is feeling are real. On occasion, he might also suffer from migraines and
violent stomach cramps. However, these too are symptoms that he has created in
order to achieve the goal of not going out.”
― The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
other way around. He doesn’t want to go out, so he’s creating a state of anxiety.
He is not pretending to be sick. The anxiety and fear your
friend is feeling are real. On occasion, he might also suffer from migraines and
violent stomach cramps. However, these too are symptoms that he has created in
order to achieve the goal of not going out.”
― The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
“Some things need to go permanently wrong before we can start to admire the stem of a rose or the petals of a bluebell. But once we realize that the larger dreams are always compromised in some way, with what gratitude we many turn to these minuscule islands of serene perfection and delight.”
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“The rich get the assets, the poor get the debt, and then the poor have to pay their whole salary to the rich every year just to live in a house. The rich use that money to buy the rest of the assets from the middle class and then the problem gets worse every year. The middle class disappears, spending power disappears permanently from the economy, the rich becoming much fucking richer and the poor, well, I guess they just die.”
― The Trading Game: A Confession
― The Trading Game: A Confession
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