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- Most things worth having require some sacrifice, usually more than you expect.
- Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi, The Art & Science of Rational Eating, 1992
- It is only in your mind that you have to excel, at anything or everything. Of course, it would be very nice to excel at most things. Indeed, we recommend that you try and do your best. But realistically, you are entitled to do the bare minimum to get by. All your accomplishments are just a bonus, something to enjoy, not requirements. You don't have to do anything to prove that you are worthy of existing.
- Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi, The Art & Science of Rational Eating, 1992
- Being assertive does not mean attacking or ignoring others feelings. It means that you are willing to hold up for yourself fairly-without attacking others.
- Albert Ellis, Michael Abrams, Lidia Dengelegi, The Art & Science of Rational Eating, 1992
- Mourning never really ends, only as time goes on, as we do our work, it may erupt less frequently.
- Ruth Davis Konigsberg, The Truth About Grief, 2011
- Feeling special is the worst kind of cage a person can build for himself.
- Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
- All opening moves were the same, like in chess. You don't have to come up with anything new, there's no point, because you're both after the same thing anyway. The game soon finds its own way and it's only at that point that you need a strategy.
- Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
- You can fall ill with just a memory.
- Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
- The love of those we don't love in return settles on the surface and from there quickly evaporates.
- Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
- He felt a furious sense of powerlessness, because he played no part in Alice's life, but by god she did in his, like a daughter whose name he hadn't been able to choose.
- Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers: A Novel
- She hadn't chosen him over all the others. The truth was that she hadn't even thought about anyone else.
- Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers
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