Paradoxes Of Life: The Truth Shall Make You Dizzy
- People treat others like they treat themselves, and if one cares less about others, the same is done to oneself.
- Communication and connectedness increase loneliness and depression as it amplifies feelings of isolation.
- Life gives us what we are afraid of, as that is what we think of all the time. If we are afraid of failure, it is bound to happen.
- Our expectations about something being difficult or easy make it so. Things feel hard because we auto-suggest ourselves the same.
- The more in abundance something is, the less we want it.
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