"Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?"

Psychology, Validation, Approval, Relationship, Ego

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"Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don't really care about them all that much?"

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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."

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

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"Idleness is the parent of psychology."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"Day or night, good or bad, all things from within."

T. F. Hodge, American Motivational Speaker

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"People who are two faced, usually forget which mask they are wearing at some point in their life."

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"If we let the drama of others' lives become our own, then we are no longer ourselves. We become the reflections of others' dramas and their lives, their tragedies, and their misfortunes become our own."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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

Jim Butcher, American Author

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

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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"Do not focus on your failings, for you will only encourage them. If you keep beating yourself up on the head over these, you will only reinforce them."

Stephen Richards, British Author

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"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."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

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"All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard."

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"I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge."

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"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon..."

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"I was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filching. Never mind that it was something she apparently didn't want or had no use for, had rejected even; still, it was hers, and if I took it away, this mysterious "it" I couldn't quite define."

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"Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence?"

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"There is never only one, of anyone."

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"For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go."

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"Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along."

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"We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?"

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"Here the children have a custom. After the celebration of evil they take those vacant heads that shone once with such anguish and glee and throw them over the bridge, watching the smash, orange, as they hit below, We were standing underneath when you told it. People do that with themselves when they are finished, light scooped out. He landed here, you said, marking it with your foot.You wouldn't do it that way, empty, you wouldn't wait, you would jump with the light still in you."

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