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“I persist in the face of defeat. I can risk being rejected now, because I no longer have to feel resentful and depressed when it happens.”

“We cannot wholly rely on friends to solve all our difficulties. A good adviser will never do all our thinking for us. He knows that each final choice must be ours.”

“No one can express love and self-pity at the same moment; showing concern for others helps us to see how foolish we have been.”

“Do I really want ... to be bitter, hostile, and judgmental? Do I want to live inside that sort of person? Wouldn’t I rather forgive, make allowances, understand? Is self-pity, feeling abused, so precious that I will not trade it for self-liking?”