"When we place more value on what other people think of us than on what we think of ourselves, itâ€™s a formula for misery."

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Source : Suzanne Selfors (2011). “Mad Love”, p.171, Bloomsbury Publishing

Suzanne Selfors

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Misery Quotes

“I've noticed that when people are joking they're usually dead serious, and when they're serious, they're usually pretty funny.”
“One may sigh for all that one loses in giving up the old religion... but the new irreligion is the manlier, honester and simpler thing, and affords a better throry of life and a more solid basis for morality.”
“Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.”
“It is difficult to get the news from poems, yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.”

Source : "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" bk. 1, l. 317 (1955)
“Marsha Coleman-Adebayo clearly and engagingly tells us Americans a truth that we might not want to hear but should.”
“Ideas are born, they struggle, triumph, change, and they are transformed; but is there a dead idea which in the end does not live on, transformed into a broader and clearer goal?”
“All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.”
“Loyalty expanded is not loyalty betrayed!”

Source : "Fictional character: E.B. Farnum". "Deadwood" TV series, Season 2, Episode 4: "Requiem for a Gleet", March 27, 2005.

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