"In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth."

-- Carol Tavris

#Pain Quotes #Self Worth Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we donâ€™t get to choose our own hearts. We canâ€™t make ourselves want whatâ€™s good for us or whatâ€™s good for other people. We donâ€™t get to choose the people we are.”

Source : Donna Tartt (2013). “The Goldfinch”, p.575, Hachette UK
“Every prime minister... has the responsibility to provide security for his people.”
“I know that I don't have a perfect performance that I bring to set. I bring ideas to set, and I'm more than willing for those to be affected and be malleable, based on what the other person gives me.”
“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning.”

Source : "Outliers". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, Book by Malcolm Gladwell.
“No matter where you are - whether you just won the lottery, or met the person of your dreams, or you're on stage and people are being supportive - whatever it is, you're still you. And whatever work you've done to be comfortable with yourself, you know, you're not really going to advance beyond that point unless you put in that work. There's no magic fix.”

Source : Interview with Robin Young, nhpr.org.
“Only the most uncritical minds are free from doubt.”
“I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.”
“This may sound pretentious, but I don't like being thought of as 'the Metal Gear guy.' There's a lot more I can do.”

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