"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time."
"Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself."
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Source: Insatiable creatures by Adam Phillips, August 7, 2009.
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