CHAPTER 31AGREEMENTS WITH YOURSELF
Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want andthat we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the worldto do what we want and it takes the greatest kind of courage.
—Ayn Rand
Many people go through life committing partial suicide—destroying theirtalents, energies, creative qualities. Indeed, to learn how to be good to oneselfis often more difficult than to learn how to be good to others.
—Joshua Liebman
I start off this section with two quotes to emphasize the idea that in personal relationships with people we deeply care about, it is not always easy to take care of yourself. Agreements are a way to do that. They require you to be appropriately assertive, ...
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