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Once a depressed person becomes active and hopeful, self-esteem always improves. Bolstering self-esteem without changing hopelessness, without changing passivity, accomplishes nothing.
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Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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