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“Younger colleagues tended to draw untested self-confidence from their bonuses and prestigious degrees.”
― Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
― Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President
“Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved."
Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.”
― The Art of Loving
Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love."
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you."
Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.”
― The Art of Loving
“It's my opinion, with some people, just knowing they are alone, living inside of their own miserable, self hating, dysfunctional mind, with their own immature, insecure, self pitying self is its own revenge. Their existence is their karma.”
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“Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving!
And then taking that experience to help others...”
― 108 Ways to Grab My Apples
And then taking that experience to help others...”
― 108 Ways to Grab My Apples
“The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.”
― Skippy Dies
― Skippy Dies
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