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He’d learned long ago that you did not gain power over yourself by denying what you were. You had to accept and hold close the various parts of yourself, the gorgeous and the ugly alike. Then, and only then, could you choose how much to indulge your various impulses. By pretending part of you didn’t exist, you had no control at all.
Whether or not we have hope depends on two dimensions of our explanatory style: pervasiveness and permanence. Finding temporary and specific causes for misfortune is the art of hope: Temporary causes limit helplessness in time, and specific causes limit helplessness to the original situation. On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors. Finding permanent and universal causes for misfortune is the practice of despair.
Learned Optimism
Martin E.P. Seligman
Whatever the statistics were, they had just gone up by one.
Good Omens
Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
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