It is always safe to see yourself truthfully. You never have to be ashamed of yourself, with yourself.
Augusten BurroughsTag: inspirational self-help
Suddenly, this word fills me with a sense of sadness I haven't felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds are all dried up and the plants are wilted. It's no longer really summer but the air is still too warm and heavy to be fall. It's the season between seasons. It's the feeling of something dying.
Augusten BurroughsThere's not enough of me left over.
Augusten BurroughsApplause is a constant thing in AA. It's how we buy drinks for each other.
Augusten BurroughsI know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention.
Augusten BurroughsI had the same worry that we wouldn't later be able to undo whatever it was we were doing to ourselves.
Augusten BurroughsAt that moment it would have been easier for me to spontaneously grasp quantum string theory
Augusten BurroughsTruth is accuracy. Without accuracy, you can't expect to manifest large, specific changes in your life.
Augusten BurroughsWhere there is willpower there is a Band Aid that's eventually going to fall off.
You only need willpower to get what you don't want or you only want to want. By want to want, I mean, something you wish you wanted but don't really.
Resentment is anger looking for payback. It's also a high-interest-earning emotion. Each new resentment is added to the ones from before. Long marriages have ended in ruin over tiny and insignificant grievances that were never properly aired and instead grew into a bitter barnacle of hatred.
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