Self pity is a disease which does not kill but corrodes.
AIDAN CHAMBERSYet, isn’t it strange, isn’t it weird, how we can KNOW that someone is not behaving in the way we imagine, and at the same time we can be totally convinced that he is!
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How clever the human mind is, that it can accept two contradictory things as ‘facts.’ Yes, I know that in this case one ‘fact’ was untrue. But the human mind can KNOW something is untrue and still accept it as a ‘fact,’ and act on it as if it were true.
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If you’re rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you’re loyal and faithful, they turn those against you.
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You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.
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Rooms are a fixed size, which can’t be altered without pulling down walls and building new ones.
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Belief means willing yourself to give all your attention to living with loving gladness in the world you think really exists.
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There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.
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Become more and more attractive and impressive, and you see that in fact they are beautiful. Not conventionally beautiful, not celebrity beautiful, but beautiful all through.
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is.
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Your weak weaknesses are no use to them…. They find the strongest weaknesses you didn’t know were yours and use those against you.
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Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don’t do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it.
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I don’t write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
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When you are in your teenage years you are consciously experiencing everything for the first time, so adolescent stories are all beginnings. There are never any endings.
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Even if they’re saying your name with dislike, at least you know you’re you, that you exist.
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The plain unwelcome fact is that sometimes life stymies you.
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However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself.
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