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But this is where we define ourselves: we are either horrified or confused or disgusted by these thoughts and work to change them, or we let them rule us. Our first thoughts about a situation are seldom what we actually believe. They are what we have been conditioned to think, or sometimes they truly are random spits of consciousness. But our second thoughts, ah, that is where we are.
No one, not even Heaven or God or the Universe itself, gets to make you feel inferior, because you’re not.”
He wasn’t afraid of telling Lily that he loved her; it was the highest honor of his life to do so.
Do not be afraid of error. Make mistakes, and many of them. You learn much about yourself through them, often more than you learn from your triumphs.
Veni, Vidi, Velcro. I came, I saw, I stuck around.