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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?

“Four thousand years ago, an Egyptian wrote out his despair onto papyrus in the form of a narrative and four short-versed poems. This document, now in the Berlin Museum, is thought by British psychiatrist Chris Thomas to be the first suicide note [...]

"Death is before me today
As a man longs to see his house
When he has spent years in captivity.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison, Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide

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