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5f9383d REMEMBER YOUR GREATNES achieve affirmation attitude beauty big birth born competition confidence courage egg existence eye fears giant great greatness human inspirational life living-achievement loser losing loss obstacles odds pains poem poetry race small sperm strength struggles success successful suffering survivor suzy-kassem victory warrior win winner winners winning wisdom Suzy Kassem
99c200d It's easy to win. Anybody can win. life-and-living loser winning Philip K. Dick
9e1959b So winners, Hae-Joo proposed, are the real losers because they learn nothing? What, then, are losers? Winners? improvement learning-from-mistakes loser perspective postmodern postmodernism winner wisdom David Mitchell
ead270a "Our need to be "greater than" or "less than" has been a defense against toxic shame. A shameful act was committed upon us. The perpetrator walked away, leaving us with the shame. We absorbed the notion that we are somehow defective. To cover for this we constructed a false self, a masked self. And it is this self that is the overachiever or the dunce, the tramp or the puritan, the powermonger or the pathetic loser." ashamed child-sexual-abuse child-sexual-abuse-survivor coverup defective defective-humans dunce false-self feeling-bad healing healing-insights hidden-feelings hidden-pain hidden-self incest loser overachiever power-trip puritan recovery-from-abuse shame survivor toxic-shame true-self Maureen Brady
07ed0a8 "Because," he said in an even voice, "you're used to winning, so you don't even think about how, every time there's a game, both sides get that 'rah, rah, team' speech from their coaches both sides hear 'you're the best!' 'You've got to win!' 'You're the greatest!' But half of the people playing that game are going to walk away losers. Half!" loser team teams win winner Margaret Peterson Haddix
fe3a3c4 "You're a dead man". I hear his voice again, and I see the words on my face when I get back in the cab and look in the rearview mirror. It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments and my overall abilities in incompetence. "A dead man", I think. He's not far wrong." loser sadness Markus Zusak
547d243 When a guy goes out there and kills somebody, he might look at himself as the winner. But in truth he's also a loser, because now he would be lost in the system. If you were listening to the news recently, some people you know well are doing 45, and 64 years for murder. They might have won their fight, but they lost their lives to the system. Franco 'Co' Bethel, former gang leader and right hand man to Scrooge. convicted-for-murder fighting gang-fights gang-killings killings loser lost-in-the-system lost-to-the-system murder prison prison-life street-fights the-system thug-life Drexel Deal