Let them see that you trust them & let them solve their own problems, make their own decisions. Do that & they will commit their lives to you. Bully the, control them out of fear or malice or just for your own convenience, & after a while you'll have to spend all your time thinking for them, controlling them, & stifling their resentment. Octavia E. Butler
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People who love you will always love you. People who don’t like you will never like you. The key is to use people as a means to your own purpose and not as an end in and of themselves.

Source: Fledgling

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