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“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don't know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But to dream about it. Happiness is for opportunists. So I think that the only life of deep satisfaction is a life of eternal struggle, especially struggle with oneself. If you want to remain happy, just remain stupid. Authentic masters are never happy; happiness is a category of slaves.”

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Author:Slavoj Žižek
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“It is of our nature to exceed ourselves. Overflowing the mesaure is built into what we are. So, too, is rejoicing in this superabundance for its own sake. Yet too lavish an excess, like too vaulting an ambition, may lead us to overreach ourselves and bring ourselves to nothing. Like Lady Macbeh, one can forget that constraints (the demands of kinship or hospitality, for example) are costitutive of the self, not simply obstacles to its expression.”

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Book:Tragedy
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“The more we lie to ourselves about how we are contributing to our problems, the more harm we will cause to ourselves and our relationships because we will blame others for undesirable aspects of our lives instead of taking responsibility for our role.”

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Book:Lies We Tell Ourselves: The Psychology of Self-Deception
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“How can man know himself? It is a dark, mysterious business: if a hare has seven skins, a man may skin himself seventy times seven times without being able to say, “Now that is truly you; that is no longer your outside.” It is also an agonizing, hazardous undertaking thus to dig into oneself, to climb down toughly and directly into the tunnels of one’s being. How easy it is thereby to give oneself such injuries as no doctor can heal. Moreover, why should it even be necessary given that everything bears witness to our being — our friendships and animosities, our glances and handshakes, our memories and all that we forget, our books as well as our pens. For the most important inquiry, however, there is a method. Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: “What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?” Assemble these revered objects in a row before you and perhaps they will reveal a law by their nature and their order: the fundamental law of your very self. Compare these objects, see how they complement, enlarge, outdo, transfigure one another; how they form a ladder on whose steps you have been climbing up to yourself so far; for your true self does not lie buried deep within you, but rather rises immeasurably high above you, or at least above what you commonly take to be your I.”

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Author:Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm
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“What we define ourselves us can sometimes bring forth the best images of ourselves--or vice versa, will create some of the worst restrictions we place on our lives.”

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Book:The Dark Dictionary: A Guide to Help Eradicate Your Darkness, Restore Your Light, and Redefine Your Life.
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“Is Hell really scary? Are you afraid of your God? Your answer can be anything, but please calm your mind for a few minutes and think about this What would be scarier than being accountable to yourself? And you are the only observer, the only witness, the only plaintiff, the only defendant, the only defense lawyer, the only jury and the only judge of this court and there is no body, no body there to help you. there is no lies to save you there is no way to run out If you think about this everyday just for a minute I think there is no more hell for anybody just because of think... just people needs think to makes the world beautiful”

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Author:Ali sheikhi
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“What could be more beautiful than being able to look within ourselves, alongside those we love and are close to? Each of us, through a clear sense of self, needs to imprint and fulfill this closeness between feminine and masculine, and each to transmit in opposite directions what they feel for each other, what they project to fulfill and become reality in their future. Love and be open in a sincere and true direction.”

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Author:Oprea Ionel
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