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"And as a few strokes on the nose will make a puppy head shy, so a few rebuffs will make a boy shy all over. But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or with secrecy. And once a boy has suffered rejection, he will find rejection even where it does not exist-or, worse, will draw it forth from people simply by expecting it."
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"My heart broke and my mind opened, tragedy works in a funny way like that ~ what once tore me apart was actually what was setting my truth free."
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Personal Development

"Idleness is the parent of psychology."
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Personal Development

"We are who we are because of what we learn and what we remember."
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Personal Development

"I've always felt that the best whips and chains are in the mind. With a little creativity, the physical ones are hardly necessary."
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Personal Development

"I don't need psychologyI am not a sociopathNeither and Psychopath."
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Personal Development

"You must give permission for people to alter your thoughts. No matter how hard they knock, they can't get into your brain unless you open the door."
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Personal Development

"When we hold-on to someone's imperfections we become emotionally pair-bonded to their maladies."
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Personal Development

"Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me."
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Personal Development

"When you build a fence around yourself, you'll wonder why people are afraid to approach you, because the pride in the fence is the cause of your blindness."
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Personal Development

"Negative thoughts about ourselves steals our energy."
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
Creativity

"It was a morning like other mornings and yet perfect among mornings."
Life

"Time is the only critic without ambition."
Time

"I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool."
Time

"Four hoarse blasts of a ship's whistle still raise the hair on my neck and set my feet to tapping."
Memory

"Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals."
Art

"It ain't kin we? It's will we?"
Family

"I have never smuggled anything in my life. Why, then, do I feel an uneasy sense of guilt on approaching a customs barrier?"
Life

"Everything seems to work with a recurring rhythm except life. There is only one birth and only one death. Nothing else is like that."
Life

"You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect."
Wisdom
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