affirmation [Theme]

Usually Kimura was among those who offended others, so he knew that it usually happens without any specific reason. People just feel better when they can assert themselves at the expense of others. Humiliating someone, you yourself become higher. You feel safe. That's the way people are.

They cannot live without being able to tell themselves that they are right, that they are strong, that their life has value. So when their words and actions are at odds with their own self-image, they start looking for excuses to resolve the conflict. Parents who abuse their children, priests who engage in forbidden relationships, politicians involved in dirty scams - they all come up with excuses for themselves.

Proper self-respect is self-affirmation by conscientiousness.

Even the one who claims to be the wisest is mistaken.

The Chinese wall is not just the senselessness and incompleteness of defense against external enemies, not a standard of strength, but - and this is the main thing! - a symbol of weakness, a bad need for a bad self-affirmation in one's own people.

The endless self-affirmation of the individual, who wants to embrace the whole of being, is nothing more than his self-denial.

The speaker is always an authority. He does not ask, but asserts.

You cannot argue that A is made of B, or vice versa. Any mass is an interaction.

It's important to you what others think of you, but I don't care.

The act of compassion inevitably contains, first, self-affirmation, second, pleasure, and thirdly, hypocrisy. In compassion there is an exaggeration, a playful sympathy, incommensurable with the depth of the suffering's pain.

Every conditions around us are invisible test of the properties of a person, and these foreign conditions choose people more inclined to comfort, to snobbery, to the easy life. And people, educated in the spirit of overcoming, exploit, test yourself desire something to assert themselves, they soon come to us.

I'm from silicon, Glad that mountain.

Fall, rise, overcome - self-assurance!

Not out of a sense of kindness towards another I am gentle, loving, patient and kind - I am because of this behavior, to provide yourself with the deepest affirmation.