"Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking."

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Source : Augusten Burroughs (2012). “This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.”, p.60, Macmillan

Augusten Burroughs

#Thinking About You Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Reduction Quotes

“Not even my parents know how I vote.”
“You never monkey with the truth.”

Source : "Watergate: 25 Years Later". Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. June 17, 1997.
“We've sent this message in this card to wish you a happy birthday, hope your day is a special one because you deserve it in every way.”
“The idea of the European community is never face a war again.”
“Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.”
“When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.”
“Once you're labeled as mentally ill, and that's in your medical notes, then anything you say can be discounted as an artefact of your mental illness.”
“I want to build spires in their minds and dance shadows through like marionettes, chased by whispers and hints of the unspeakable.”

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