"If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?"

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David Levithan

#Realizing Quotes #Masochism Quotes

“I'm not the first person to sing about God, Jesus, faith [or] any of that, and I won't be the last. And it won't be the last for me, either. If you don't like it, change the channel.”
“It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.”

Source : Muriel Spark (2015). “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”, p.11, Canongate Books
“Some people give gifts in order to bewilder, confuse, and manipulate their recipients.”
“... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.”
“The greatest limitations you will ever face will be those you place on yourself.”

Source : Denis Waitley (1988). “Being the best”, Pocket
“Christopher Guest movies are my top of the line favorites.”
“The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.”
“Another way to put an end to self-rejection is ask yourself whether what you're telling yourself is what a friend would say, or what an enemy would. Friends are supportive. Enemies put us down and undermine our confidence. So if you say something that an enemy would say, stop. Answer back, 'I'm going to be supportive of myself. As a friend, what I have to say to myself is . . .' Then say something supportive.”

Source : Mira Kirshenbaum (2005). “Everything Happens for a Reason: Finding the True Meaning of the Events in Our Lives”, p.87, Harmony

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