“I must learn to love the fool in me–the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool.”

–Theodore I. Rubin, MD

From The Oprah Magazine
October 2007
Page 81

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