

“Territory matters, and there is little difference between territorial rights and social status. It is often a matter of life and death.”
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
― 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Impressing people is utterly different from being truly impressive.”
― Ego Is the Enemy
― Ego Is the Enemy

“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.”
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“The only real failure is abandoning your principles. Killing what you love because you can’t bear to part from it is selfish and stupid. If your reputation can’t absorb a few blows, it wasn’t worth anything in the first place.”
― Ego Is the Enemy
― Ego Is the Enemy
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