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Amy’s Quotes

“I lead a life of severe self-control mitigated by moments of impulse.”
― Elise Valmorbida, The Book of Happy Endings: True Stories About Finding Love

tags: self-control

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“Getting to this point hasn't always been easy; it took me years to really learn to silence my mind. But as you move through your career and your life, you will have to learn that if you're not what you do, then what you do has no business keeping you entertained at night.”
― Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You

tags: career, life, mind

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“You can't let the truth bring out the worst and let it get the best of you.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: arrogance, corruption, destruction, honesty, humility, insincerity, pride, sincerity, truth

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“The trouble with bookshops is that they are as bad as pubs. You start at one and then you drift to another, and before you know where you are you are on a gigantic book-binge. My brief case was full to bursting and I had bundles of books under both arms. I was bowed down by the weight of them.”
― R.T. Campbell, Bodies in a Bookshop

tags: addiction-to-books, biblioholism, book-lust, self-control

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“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful. It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

tags: desire, self-control, temptation

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