"With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem."

-- Azar Nafisi

#Self Esteem Quotes #Lying Quotes #Matter Quotes

“We're really hard on ourselves and just need to relax more. A lot of guys really prefer you more natural. That's from experience.”

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“Humanistic law aims at saving man and remaking society. For Humanism, salvation is an act of the state.”
“Nothing beats love. Love is the greatest healing power there is; nothing else comes close. Not ancient cures, modern medicines and technologies, or all the interesting books we read or the wise things we say and think. Love has a transformational power.”
“The future reshapes the memory of the past in the way it recalibrates significance; some episodes are advanced, others lose purchase.”
“Smell remembers and tells the future. ... Smell is home or loneliness. Confidence or betrayal. Smell remembers.”
“Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.”
“At their core, misogyny and racism are very similar modes of thinking. Both diminish and disrespect a class of people based on a trait that is wholly distinct from their ideas, their carriage and their conduct.”
“At some point, you can't take a risk just to take a risk because that's a betrayal, in and of itself.”

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