Reader's Updates en-US Fri, 22 Dec 2023 16:41:50 -0800 60 Reader's Updates 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg UserQuote88961714 Fri, 22 Dec 2023 16:41:50 -0800 <![CDATA[Reader liked a quote by Stephen Fry]]> /quotes/636901
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� Certainly the most destructive vice if you like, that a person can have. More than pride, which is supposedly the number one of the cardinal sins - is self pity. Self pity is the worst possible emotion anyone can have. And the most destructive. It is, to slightly paraphrase what Wilde said about hatred, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self pity and not the other way around - ' It destroys everything around it, except itself '.

Self pity will destroy relationships, it'll destroy anything that's good, it will fulfill all the prophecies it makes and leave only itself. And it's so simple to imagine that one is hard done by, and that things are unfair, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only one had had a chance at this, only one had had a chance at that, things would have gone better, you would be happier if only this, that one is unlucky. All those things. And some of them may well even be true. But, to pity oneself as a result of them is to do oneself an enormous dis
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� Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be. � � Jennifer Elisabeth
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� Losing your life is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing is to lose your reason for living. � � Jo Nesbø
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