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“Perfectionism is inherently self-critical—an inflexible and extreme form of self-evaluation that results in feelings of failure and worthlessness, even in the face of considerable accomplishments.”
― Clarissa W. Ong, The Anxious Perfectionist: How to Manage Perfectionism-Driven Anxiety Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

“you have to get to work being your own coach instead of your own worst critic.”
― Julie Smith, Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?

“It has been brought to our notice that we have been in the habit of regarding the connection between the sexual instinct and the sexual object as more intimate than it in fact is. Experience of the cases that are considered abnormal has shown us that in them the sexual instinct and the sexual object are merely soldered together—a fact which we have been in danger of overlooking in consequence of the uniformity of the normal picture, where the object appears to form part and parcel of the instinct. We are thus warned to loosen the bond that exists in our thoughts between instinct and object. It seems probable that the sexual instinct is in the first instance independent of its object; nor is its origin likely to be due to its object's attractions.”
― Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

“Learning comes through pain.”
― Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides