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“I was excited because getting to know oneself was exciting. I was beginning to believe that I had the power to influence my own personality.”

Self Confidence Autonomy Self Empowerment Self Confident

Book:Menfreya in the Morning

Source: Menfreya in the Morning

“You always look as though you think people aren't going to like you--that's your trouble.”

Self Esteem Projection Self Image Image Image About Yourself Confidences

Book:Menfreya in the Morning

Source: Menfreya in the Morning

“Sometimes I sit at my window looking out on the towers of the Abbas and weep silently. No one must know how I suffered. No one must know how I failed. Sometimes I go and stand in the ring of stones and it seems to me that my fate is more wretched then theirs. They were turned to stone while they were dancing defiance. I wish I could have been.”

Grief Failure Sorrow

Book:The Legend of the Seventh Virgin

Source: The Legend of the Seventh Virgin

“Why should this happen to me when I planned and worked… and came so far?”

Failure Anger Disbelief

Book:The Legend of the Seventh Virgin

Source: The Legend of the Seventh Virgin

“The more I disliked myself the more wretched I grew. The difference now was that this mood did not manifest itself in sullen silence; I merely made use of my barbed tongue to wound them and spoil their pleasure.”

Mean Projection Bad Behavior Self Hate Bad Behaviour Self Distancing

Book:Menfreya in the Morning

Source: Menfreya in the Morning

“It has always astonished me how changes come into one's life. The gradual change becomes acceptable, but sudden shock, presenting itself without warning to shatter the existence so completely that nothing will ever be the same again, makes me uneasily aware of the perpetual uncertainties of life.”

Change Sudden Change Uncertainties In Life Uncertainties

Book:Menfreya in the Morning

Source: Menfreya in the Morning

“In spite of my efforts I could not free myself. He caught me to me and I felt his teeth against mine. I kept mine firmly clenched and I hated him. I hated him so fiercely that I found a certain pleasure in my hatred. In that moment he had aroused an emotion in me that I had never felt before. It was not without desire. Perhaps, I thought later when I was alone and trying to analyze my feelings, the desire I felt was for a house, for a different station of life then that into which I had been born, for a fulfillment of a dream. My desire for these things was so fierce that perhaps another kind of desire could be aroused by anyone who could give me them; and his words about marriage had put an idea into my mind.”

Desire Hate Marriage

Book:The Legend of the Seventh Virgin

Source: The Legend of the Seventh Virgin