"It is impossible to win a contest with a helpless opponent since if you win you have won nothing."

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Source : Jay Haley (1969). “The power tactics of Jesus Christ, and other essays”

Jay Haley

#Winning Quotes #Opponents Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“I donâ€™t need help because if I canâ€™t help myself I canâ€™t be helped.”
“You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things.”
“Pain, sorrow, ignorance are all illusory; they cannot live. Bliss, joy, knowledge are true; they cannot die.”
“The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.”
“Longing, we say, because desire is full of endless distances.”

Source : "Meditation at Lagunitas" l. 24 (1979)
“Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.”
“The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.”
“So much of what determines our happiness, I believe, is who we choose as our intimates.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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