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"If the will remains in protest it stays dependent on that which it is protesting against."
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"Female competition is when you are with a guy you like and you look around, see a girl who is prettier than you standing nearby, and think to yourself: 'I wish she wasn't here.' -This is what happens when you attach your identity and sense of worth to the amount of male attention you receive."
"You are a person worthy of love. You don't have to do anything to prove that."
"Dare not to criticise self, lift yourself up and set the boundaries for your worth. Speak kindly to self and hand your worries over to the wind,if you are here; you are successful already, start believing in your story, the destination will be meaningless if the journeys never been truly lived."
"I can't tell you anything about yourself you don't already know, WAIT, unless you don't know you're an incredibly freaking amazing person with boundless gifts to share then I can tell you that."
"We fail to often realize that every man has an innate worth."
"If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do."
"You just can't apologize for being you nor for your emotional self, nor for your intellectual self, nor for spiritual self, nor for your physical self. It's all a part of who you are, signal that you don't value who you are, once that occurs you have a serious work to do, to get back to where you need to be in order to move on in life."
"To be envied for your giftedness is better than to be accepted for your untalentedness."
"Self - love is beginning but others - love is the end. Self - love is important but insufficient."
"The difficulties of life don't stop attacking your self-worth and self-confidence, you just have to repair and fortify every time. Recall and recite it; tell yourself what you are worth."
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"The fascist authoritarianism, characterized by sado - masochism and destructiveness, had a function which is comparable psychologically to a neurotic symptom - namely, fascism compensated for powerlessness and individual isolation and protected the individual from anxiety - creating situations. If one compare fascism to a neurotic symptom, it can be said that fascism is a neurotic form of community."
"Indeed, compulsive and rigid moralism arises in given persons precisely as the result of a lack of sense of being. Rigid moralism is a compensatory mechanism by which the individual persuades himself to take over the external sanctions because he has no fundamental assurance that his own choices have any sanction of their own"
"Finding the center of strength within ourselves is in the long run the best contribution we can make to our fellow men. ... One person with indigenous inner strength exercises a great calming effect on panic among people around him. This is what our society needs - not new ideas and inventions; important as these are, and not geniuses and supermen, but persons who can 'be', that is, persons who have a center of strength within themselves."
"The hallmark of courage in our age of conformity is the capacity to stand on one's convictions - not obstinately or defiantly (these are gestures of defensiveness not courage) nor as a gesture of retaliation but simply because these are what one believes."
"Creative people, as I see them, are distinguished by the fact that they can live with anxiety, even though a high price may be paid in terms of insecurity, sensitivity, and defenselessness for the gift of the 'divine madness, to borrow the term used by the classical Greeks. They do not run away from non - being, but by encountering and wrestling with it, force it to produce being. They knock on silence for an answering music; they pursue meaninglessness until they can force it to mean."
"Opposites though they are, both solitude and solidarity are essential if the artist is to produce works that are not only significant to his or her age, but that will also speak to future generations."
"Courage isrequired not only in a person's occasional crucial decision for his own freedom but in the little hour - to - hour decisions which place the bricks in the structure of his building of himself into a person who acts with freedom and responsibility."
"In my clinical experience the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers."
"One means of allaying anxiety is frantic activity. The anxiety arising out of the dilemma of powerlessness in the face of suprapersonal economic forces on one hand, but theoretical belief in the efficacy of individual effort on the other, was symptomized partly by excessive activism."
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