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"Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied."
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"Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone."
Respect

"The complete recipe for imagination is absolute boredom."
Imagination

"When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them."
Empathy

"We are to love God most importantly so that we can grow to love people as he loved us, not so that we can feel more divine and worthy than the worldly."
Faith

"The aim is to love God because the pure heart loves loving God and because the true mind knows He deserves it. Unlike the accusations and beliefs of the critics and skeptics, it is neither an obligation of duty; nor a fear of damnation; nor a wish for power; nor a desire to appear more righteous than others; nor because God needs it; but because through all love, truth, reason, faith, honesty, and joy in and beyond oneself and the universe, He is worthy."
Spiritual

"Conscious minds can, at the most, comprehend that the whole idea of a 'God' is his superiority, his omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience; and therefore, at the least, desire him, someone far greater than themselves."
Faith

"I am often guilty of expecting the worst so as to avoid disappointment and welcome surprise."
Expectation

"Children are the most reasonable about discipline. When they tell you not to do something, it's always because they know why."
Discipline

"Astray from a deep sleep chronic as I write by phonics, like insomnia I will always live the onyx night for revealing, and, upon it, still I'll steal the bright light of day right away just to keep building at speeds hypersonic."
Creativity

"In a sense, discouragement does not have to exist. Allow it to be rather the encouragement to honestly reconsider all the options, then, as necessary, shine on."
Encouragement
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"Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion."
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"Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity."
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"I don't miss the economic insecurity, the living paycheck to paycheck."
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"Envy is a sign of insecurity, yes; but so is longing to be envied."
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"I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience."
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"People, generally, are equally insecure. They just show it (or hide it) differently."
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"The earthquake of discomfort you feel moving inside of you when someone insults you is your own insecurity."
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"I'm always described as 'cocksure' or 'with a swagger,' and that bears no resemblance to who I feel like inside. I feel plagued by insecurity."
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"That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity."
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"An open Facebook page is simply a psychiatric dry erase board that screams, "Look at me. I am insecure. I need your reaction to what I am doing, but you're not cool enough to be my friend. Therefore, I will just pray you see this because the approval of God is not all I need."
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