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How to Change Your Habits

by William James

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Nov 18, 2016 08:58PM

“the discovery of each other brings a kind of peace, because it brings the certitude that we are right. We are stronger together ... we will have less doubts." This seemed deeply true, yet I wonder if it is good to ally similarities, one agreeing with the other, as twins might, so that this might give an illusion of balance, reassure us about our orientation, or whether we should seek this by contrast with others,”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

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“I am losing my great, dissolving, disintegrating pity for others, in which I saw deflected the compassion I wanted for myself. I no longer give compassion, which means I no longer need to receive it.”
― Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anais Nin Volume 1 1931-1934

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