It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity.
Criss JamiThe only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.
Criss JamiIt often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.
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