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“If people could handle their self-loathing, customer service would be smoother.”
― Caroline Kepnes, You

“Some people have difficulty telling the difference between something great and something they've simply heard of.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“repeat after me:
you owe
no one
your forgiveness.

- except maybe yourself.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“your happiness
comes before
anyone else's
happiness.
-the real meaning of 'self respect'.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“i would say
you held the key
to my heart,

but you
never needed
it.

- from the beginning i knew i could leave it unlocked for you.”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“all of the oceans
& galaxies
did not
conspire together to
create me
just so i could
reproduce for
you.

-Startling Fact #1”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in This One

“no” is short for “fuck off.”  ”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“when someone offers to save you make it your mission to save yourself.   -”
― Amanda Lovelace, The Princess Saves Herself in this One

“I don't know when we'll see each other again or what the world will be like when we do. We may both have seen many horrible things. But I will think of you every time I need to be reminded that there is beauty and goodness in the world.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

“Whenever you’re worried or sad about something, I want you to know you can talk to me. But when you can’t or don’t want to, you should try writing in here. Just imagine you’re talking to the person you trust most in the whole world. It’s amazing how much the human brain is able to remember, how much you hold onto in life, but when you write something down, you can forget about it—you no longer have to hold it inside. Remember the good things; write the bad ones down in here and forget about them.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“You also get the benefit of feeling that you’re doing good by picking on someone evil—it can even be a kind of stress release. Once you’ve done it, though, you may find that you want that feeling again—that you need someone else to accuse just to get the rush back.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“Our values are determined by the environment we grow up in; and we learn to judge other people based on a standard that’s set for us by the first person we come in contact with—which in most cases is our mother.”
― Kanae Minato, Confessions

“The sure sign of an amateur is he has a million plans and they all start tomorrow.”
― Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro

“The payoff of living in the past or the future is you never have to do your work in the present.”
― Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro

“The amateur tweets. The pro works.”
― Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro

“What we get when we turn pro is, we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and to live out.”
― Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro

“The pain of being human is that we're all angels imprisoned in vessels of flesh.”
― Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro

“That gang or posse that we imagine is sustaining us by the bonds we share is in fact a conglomeration of individuals who are just as fucked up as we are and just as terrified.”
― Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro

“What is the pain of being human? It's the condition of being suspended between two worlds and being unable to fully enter into either.”
― Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro

“The amateur is often unkind or insensitive to others, but she saves her most exquisite cruelty for herself.”
― Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro

“The amateur prizes shallowness and shuns depth. The culture of Twitter and Facebook is paradise for the amateur.”
― Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro

“The amateur hoards his knowledge and his reinforcement. He believes that if he shares what he possesses with others, he will lose it.

The professional is happy to teach. He will gladly lend a hand or deliver a swift kick.”
― Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro

“In my experience, when we project a quality or virtue onto another human being, we ourselves almost always already possess that quality, but we're afraid to embrace (and to live) that truth.”
― Steven Pressfield, Turning Pro