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Today I Will Nourish My Inner Martyr: Affirmations for Cynics

Tonight, by moonlight, I will rake my

leaves into my neighbor's yard.

Had it up to here with sugary-sweet affirmation books that ignore the pleasures of resentment and mean-spiritedness? Tired of the self-helpaholics who've been sipping too much chicken soup? Then this book is for you.

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Here are 365 splendidly bitter daily meditations that will appeal to the cynic in you. Nowhere else will you find such odes to self-absorption as:

*Today I will equate material possessions with love.

*Today I will taunt others until they cry, then tell them they are too sensitive.

*Today I will make a new friend based solely on how he or she can further my career.

*Today I will respect my need to sabotage everyone else's success.

Audience
adult
Length
short · 192 pages

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