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“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”
― The Light in the Heart: Inspirational Thoughts for Living Your Best Life
― The Light in the Heart: Inspirational Thoughts for Living Your Best Life
“We each have our own ways of sabotaging & keeping ourselves down…Do we need to remain the victim so strongly that we pull the ceiling down upon our own heads? There is a comfort in the familiar. Also, it is important to us to be in control because as children being abused we were not at all in control. In self-sabotage we can be both the victim & the victimizer.”
― Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
― Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
“What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them. It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance.”
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“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
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“It's now very common to hear people say, 'I'm rather offended by that.' As if that gives them certain rights. It's actually nothing more... than a whine. 'I find that offensive.' It has no meaning; it has no purpose; it has no reason to be respected as a phrase. 'I am offended by that.' Well, so fucking what."
[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”
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[I saw hate in a graveyard -- Stephen Fry, The Guardian, 5 June 2005]”
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