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"You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity."
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"Your mindset serves as the operating system for your entire life's experience."
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Personal Development
"A poor but confident man is as hard to find as a rich but shy man."
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Personal Development
"Saying that you do not remember something or someone is a less embarrassing or hurtful way of saying that you do not know it or them anymore."
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"We are not as important to most people as we are to ourselves. As a matter of fact, we are-to most people-not important at all."
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"Instead of breaking or cherry-picking the rules, many just follow the inner rules, which have been instilled during their lifetime and have subtly permeated their thinking. They value rules, as it offers the ravishment of a securing, ceremonial rhythm in life and it prevents them from breaking free from their cocoon, all the more because freedom can be so scaring and exhausting. ['When forgetting the rules of the game']"
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"It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation."
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"Even if we have bad feelings about our past and it causes a sense of alienation, it belongs to our history. Its benchmarks are stored in the granary of our mind and crucial evaluations for the future cannot be made without consulting the archive of our memory. ['Not without the past']"
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"A first impression works like a magic mirror; it reflects what intrigues us rather than echoing a truthful picture. A first impression is the creating of an imagined character born from personal desires, perceptions, and biases. Though sparked by an introduction to a real, living, breathing individual, the person remains a mystery long after parting. It is a fictitious ghost masked with similar features that remains. A first impression is rarely accurate; therefore, it should never be trusted."
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"Human nature is so complicated. Those who have little, want a lot. Those who have a lot, think others have more. Those who lose, blame others for the loss."
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Personal Development
"If you babble enneagram, I am a five. If you boast myers-briggs, I am an introvert-intuition-thinking-perceiving."
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"I wonder. Of course maybe that isn't what they figure to do. Maybe they aren't going to do any such thing. But it's natural that's what they would do and I heard that word."
Curiosity
"Hem,' he said, and I knew he was a critic now, since, in conversation, they put your name at the beginning of a sentence rather than at the end."
Criticism
"It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
Business
"In those days we did not trust anyone who had not been in the war, but we did notcompletely trust anyone."
Trust
"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."
Architecture
"We are all broken, that's how the light gets in."
Spiritual
"The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."
War
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
World
"Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
Success
"Never confuse movement with action."
Action
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