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"Being a control freak is a sign of a vulnerableself-esteem. The better you feel about yourself the less you need to control everything around you."
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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']"

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."

"Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than they can chew."

"And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed."

"The only way to truly help most drug addicts and most alcoholics is to-instead of them-change reality."

"There is no such thing as a boring person when you are lonely or extremely bored."

"That which he projects ahead of him as his ideal, is merely his substitute for the lost narcissism of his childhood - the time when he was his own ideal."

"We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself."

"I am a mask, concealing the real."

"To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic."
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"Although happiness is a state of being, it usually still requires some doing if it is to belasting in your life."

"So many of life's eventualities are beyond your control. Work out what things you can influence and come to a peaceful acceptance of the rest."

"It's hard to be present when your attention is suffering information overload. Switch off and just sit still."

"There is no such thing as'no choice'. There are always other options. Explore yours."

"Self-pity never leads to happiness. Remind yourself that the situation may not be ideal, but it's rarely the worst that could ever happen."

"There is nothing wrong with wanting more. There is no reason why you should n't get everything you want from life."

"There is a big difference between being self-ist and being selfish-putting yourself first doesn't mean you have to put everyone else last."

"The only way to get an understanding of the true wealth in your life is to acknowledge all the things you have to be grateful for."
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