"People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities."

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Bell Hooks

#Integrity Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes #People Quotes

“Instead of seeing the rug being pulled from under us, we can learn to dance on the shifting carpet.”
“Phil took us to the finals three out of the five years and you want to fire him and want to bring in Mike Krzyzewski? Come on, man. That's like being married to J-Lo, then dropping J-Lo for a girl that's 5-10, 480 (pounds).”
“Reason necessarily expresses itself through emotions and emotions are healthy only insofar as they are expressions of reason.”
“Money is like a canvas or a shape shifter. It's like whatever you project on that canvas, that's what money is for you. Really, in its essence it's power. Most people relate to money the way they relate to power. They either think other people have it, and they don't and they're mad about it, or they feel fearful of it like having it would be a burden or a responsibility.”
“For this war is essentially a war of conquest. If ever a nation did wage such a war, the North is now engaged, with a determination worthy of a more hopeful cause, in endeavoring to conquer the South...”
“[The] idealization of marriage is typical of those who are excluded from it: priests, gays, adolescents. It shows an extraordinary willful blindness.”
“We can do nothing without prayer.”
“Figuring things out for yourself is practically the only freedom anyone really has nowadays. Â Use that freedom.”

Source : "Fictional character: Jean Rasczak". "Starship Troopers", www.imdb.com. November 4, 1997.

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