Jessica Zafra Quotes

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• There's nothing wrong with self-improvement, as long as you recognize that at some point you're going to have to accept yourself in all your imperfect glory. What's wrong with liking yourself the way you are?

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  Self, Long, Way

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• That's the thing about a great book. Every time you read it, it's different, because you're different. You've changed since the last time you picked it up, things have happened to you.

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  Book, Different, Lasts

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• As you go through life, you learn many lessons. Unfortunately these lessons only apply to the specific instances in which you learned them. Therefore you can expect to make horrible mistakes no matter how long you live.

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  Mistake, Long, Lessons

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Greasy food might not be good for your body, but it does wonders for the soul. A healthy diet may prolong your life, but what would you have to live for? What is the point of living to a hundred if you have to subsist on bland food? One may as well die of boredom.

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  Boredom, Healthy, Soul

  Jessica Zafra (1998). “Twisted”, Anvil Books

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• I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.

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  Writing, Life Is Short, Want

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• Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?

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  Miserable, Should, I Can

  Jessica Zafra (1995). “Twisted”, Anvil Books

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• We are all the same in that we all want to be different.

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  Different, Want

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• In relationships it is best to assume nothing.

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  Assuming, Assume Nothing

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.

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  Book

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• Life is a series of random collisions.

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  Life Is, Collision, Series

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• You can not make someone love you. You can not be thin enough or white enough or famous enough. The choice is entirely the other person's. Then again, you might try hypnosis.

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  Love You, Hypnosis, White

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Whining is a form of manipulation. People will give anything to make you shut up.

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  People, Giving, Manipulation

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Beware of those who have never been bored, depressed, or angry. There is something seriously wrong with them.

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  Bored, Angry

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that love will make an exception in their case. It never does.

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  Love Is, Doe, Assuming

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• Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?

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  Doe, Looks, Stuff

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• What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

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  Simple, Age, Caution

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• We like to look for patterns and find connections in unrelated events. This way we can explain them to ourselves. Life seems neater, or at least less messy. We need to feel we are in control: it is integral to our self-esteem. We also know, though we deny it, that we are not in control. So we settle for the illusions of control. What if we stopped fooling ourselves?

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  Self Esteem, What If, Patterns

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• We have no control over fate and history, but we can control how we conduct ourselves in this life.

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  Fate, This Life

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• The reason men rule is because women let them.

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  Men, Reason

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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• Sometimes I wonder if, instead of falling madly in love, we should aspire to fall sanely in love. But then, what would be the point?

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  Fall, Would Be, Sometimes

  Jessica Zafra (2000). “Twisted”

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• To live intensely is a basic human necessity.

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  Humans

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• My Macbook is my new boyfriend, except that he's dependable and meets all my demands.

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  Demand, New Boyfriend, Dependable

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• Screw us once, shame on them; screw us twice, shame on us.

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  Life, Shame, Screws

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• If you are honest with yourself, your life will be so much more pleasant.

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  Honest, Honest With Yourself, Pleasant

  Jessica Zafra (2006). “The 500 people you meet in hell”

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• Never, ever point out that a woman is eating too much.

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  Too Much, Eating

  Jessica Zafra (1997). “Chicken pox for the soul”

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