
“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”
Source: The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
Elysium
20s A Difficult Age (2017)
“Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been.”
Source: The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage
As quoted in "Spoonful of Sugar : Natasha Lyonne’s Sweet Comeback" by Shira Levine, in Heeb Magazine (20 January 2009)
Context: Look, I’m not thrilled that perfect strangers get to have an opinion about me or feel like they know me, but I have enough perspective to know they don’t know me, and I do have a life and I don’t live it for other people.… My reality is very different from what everyone read. The problem is because I did get myself in a lot of trouble, I didn’t get to do the kind of work that maybe I should have been doing, so it became confusing who I really am and what I am really about … It’s totally fucking strange to me that people took a lot of that fucking stuff seriously. … It’s not their fault that they don’t know me personally. Who’s got the time?
David Armstrong, Theo Farrell, Bice Maiguashca, Governance and resistance in world politics http://books.google.pl/books?id=Xs6V0PLaEiEC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, Cambridge University Press, 2003, p. 68.
“I feel fairly certain that my hatred harms me more than the people whom I hate.”
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