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48 laws of power

Law #1 Never outshine the master.

Law #2 Never Put too much trust in friends; learn how to use enemies.

Law #3 Conceal your intentions.

Law #4 Always say less than necessary.

Law #5 So much depends on reputation. Guard it with your life.

Law #6 Court attention at all costs.

Law #7 Get others to do the work for you, but always take the credit.

Law #8 Make other people come to you; use bait if necessary.

Law #9 Win through your actions, never through argument.

Law #10 Infection: avoid the unhappy and unlucky.

Law #11 Learn to keep people dependent on you.

Law #12 Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim.

Law #13 When asking for help, appeal to people’s self-interests, never to their mercy or gratitude.

Law #14 Pose as a friend, work as a spy.

Law #15 Crush your enemy totally.

Law #16 Use absence to increase respect and honor.

Law #17 Keep others in suspended terror: cultivate an air of unpredictability.

Law #18 Do not build fortresses to protect yourself. Isolation is dangerous.

Law #19 Know who you’re dealing with; do not offend the wrong person.

Law #20 Do not commit to anyone.

Law #21 Play a sucker to catch a sucker: play dumber than your mark.

Law #22 Use the surrender tactic: transform weakness into power.

Law #23 Concentrate your forces.

Law #24 Play the perfect courtier.

Law #25 Re-create yourself.

Law #26 Keep your hands clean.

Law #27 Play on people’s need to believe to create a cultlike following.

Law #28 Enter action with boldness.

Law #29 Plan all the way to the end.

Law #30 Make your accomplishments seem effortless.

Law #31 Control the options: get others to play with the cards you deal.

Law #32 Play to people’s fantasies.

Law #33 Discover each man’s thumbscrew.

Law #34 Be royal in your fashion: act like a king to be treated like one.

Law #35 Master the art of timing.

Law #36 Disdain things you cannot have: Ignoring them is the best revenge.

Law #37 Create compelling spectacles.

Law #38 Think as you like but behave like others.

Law #39 Stir up waters to catch fish.

Law #40 Despise the free lunch.

Law #41 Avoid stepping into a great man’s shoes.

Law #42 Strike the shepherd and the sheep will scatter.

Law #43 Work on the hearts and minds of others.

Law #44 Disarm and infuriate with the mirror effect.

Law #45 Preach the need for change, but never reform too much at once.

Law #46 Never appear perfect.

Law #47 Do not go past the mark you aimed for; in victory, learn when to stop.

Law #48 Assume formlessness.

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today i remember her for her resilient strength and for how she taught me how to let myself exist as a solitary individual with complete feelings and emotions.

here are some of my favourite lines from her works -

1. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

2. The initial gesture of taking responsibility for our well-being, wherein we confess to our brokenness, our woundedness, and open ourselves to salvation, must be made by the individual. This act of opening the heart enables us to receive the healing offered us by those who care. (All About Love)

3. Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion. (All About Love)

4. I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.

5. It is silly, isn't it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself. This was a moment when the maxim 'You can never love anybody if you are unable to love yourself' made clear sense. And I add, 'Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

6. The source of all wakefulness, the source of all kindness and compassion, the source of all wisdom, is in each second of time. Anything that has us looking ahead is missing the point. - from x

7. Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

8. Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.

9. If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I’m supporting Black males, Black children male and female Black elderly because the bottom line is the struggle to end domination in all its forms.

10. Hope is essential to any political struggle for radical change when the overall social climate promotes disillusionment and despair.

I ask of you all to read her books, she has been a great teacher through and through. You will gain enough insight to learn how and when to forgive yourself, and how to keep on living. It's all about love, and beauty is and will be political.