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We’re taught early in life to keep our emotions hidden and we’re especially taught that negative emotions have no place in a public domain.
In other words, you can buy happiness off the rack—but sadness is tailor-made just for you.
‘If someone calls you stupid and you are stupid, then it shouldn’t bother you because what they’re saying is true, and if someone calls you stupid and you aren’t stupid, then also it shouldn’t bother you because what they’re saying is not true. Neither the truth nor lies should trouble you.’