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Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People: Over 325 Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases for Working with Challenging Personalities

by Renée Evenson

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Self-Directed DBT Skills: A 3-Month DBT Workbook to Regulate Intense Emotions and Create Lasting Change with Dialectical Behavior Therapy

by Kiki Fehling

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The Quotable Hitchens: From Alcohol to Zionism -- The Very Best of Christopher Hitchens

by Christopher Hitchens

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“You never fuck me and I always have to drive." - Drugstore Cowboy”
― Drugstore Cowboy

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“Reality doesn't impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me, I escape, one way or another. No more walls.”
― Anaïs Nin, Incest: From "A Journal of Love": The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1932-1934

tags: ecstasy, escape, freedom, intoxication, reality

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“You cannot achieve happiness. Happiness happens and is a transitory stage. Imagine how happy I felt when I got relief from bladder pressure. How long did that happiness last?”
― Fritz Perls

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“I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am me. And if by chance we find each other, it will be beautiful. If not, it can’t be helped.”
― Fritz Perls

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“Liebe braucht Kontakt, nicht Vermeidung des Kontakt. Die Liebe braucht das Hier und Jetzt der Begegnung. Liebe ist nichts Statisches, sie bedeutet Auseinandersetzung, meint gemeinsames Wachstum, nachdem der Thrill der Verliebtheit vorüber ist. Liebe ist (auch) Arbeit. (Fritz Perls)”
― Katja Sundermeier, Der Beziehungsführerschein: Mit Simply Love auf Dauer glücklich

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