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"I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I do nothing."
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"Shame lies. All the time. About everything. Don't believe your shame."
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Personal Development
"I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of men who believe in themselves more colossally than Napoleon or Caesar. I know where flames the fixed star of certainty and success. I can guide you to the thrones of the Super-men. The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums."
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Personal Development
"Nothing will ever be solved if we wallow in the darkness of denial."
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Personal Development
"Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other."
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Personal Development
"[If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the assumptions on which all the conversation of his new friends [are] based... he will be in a false position. He will be silent when he ought to speak and laugh when he ought to be silent. He will assume, at first only by his manner, but presently by his words, all sorts of cynical and sceptical attitudes which are not really his. But... they may become his. All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be."
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Personal Development
"I was living for one thing only, and that was to confirm my own lack of feeling."
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Personal Development
"Human brain is structured to avoid any kind of refutation of one's religious beliefs."
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Personal Development
"We are what we believe we are."
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Personal Development
"Man is more likely to believe an opinion that he wanted to hear - than a fact that he wishes was an opinion."
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Personal Development
"We are semipermeable membranes. We can pick and choose which troubles are worthy of our attention. What sinks us can only do so with our permission, a boat stays afloat until the water gets in."
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"You can't undo loss. You can't unmake a mistake. (What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth?)"
Life
"Forward momentum. That's my new motto. No regrets. And no going back."
Inspirational
"Sleepovers and dance parties and those talks we would have until three in the morning that would make us feel lousy the next day because we'd slept like hell but also feel good because the talks were like blood transfusions, moments of realness and hope that were pinpricks of light in the dark fabric of small-town life."
Relationship
"Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny."
Relationship
"Pictures can be pretty deceptive."
Psychology
"My parents always seemed less like lovebirds than like amiable business partners, for whom I'm the sole product."
Family
"I run my finger along the crease of the envelope, feel the weight of history inside. Wherever I'm going next, these are coming with me."
History
"Sometimes you make choices in life, and sometimes choices make you."
Life
"My anger feels hot and bilious but I keep it bottled until it doubles back and I'm mad at myself."
Psychology
"He looks at me and then, reverting to the voice he'd used with Kendra, says, 'If homegirls wanna see me as ghetto trash'--he stops and switches to his lispy, sassy voice--'or big-ass queer'--now he switches to his deepest Shakespeare voice--'I shall not take it upon myself to disabuse them."
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